{"id":16039,"date":"2013-10-04T12:07:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T19:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=16039"},"modified":"2013-10-04T12:07:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T19:07:14","slug":"foolad-stumble-but-stay-on-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/10\/04\/foolad-stumble-but-stay-on-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Foolad stumble, but stay on top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; AHVAZ, <strong>Leaders Foolad Khuzestan suffered their second defeat of the season on Thursday, losing 0-2 to Naft Tehran at home.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, Majid Jalali&#8217;s men stay on top of the league and will barely feel increased pressure, after Sepahan and Persepolis both failed to win more than a point in round 12 of Iran&#8217;s Persian Gulf League.<\/p>\n<p>Midfielders Rasoul Navidkia and Kamal Kamyabinia scored the goals for Naft, who now are fourth in the table with 21 points, four points less then Foolad.<br \/>\nWhile Sepahan only struggled to a goalless draw against Mes Kerman, Persepolis only secured a 1-1 draw against Saba Battery thanks to a last minute strike from Mehdi Seyed Salehi on Friday to at least stay in fifth position. Sepahan are now second while Tractor Sazi climbed to the third spot following their 2-1 win on the road against Rah Ahan.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere Fajr and Zob Ahan played out a goalless stalemate, Gostaresh Foolad lost 1-2 to Saipa and Damash drew Esteghlal Khuzestan 0-0.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal Tehran&#8217;s clash with Malavan was postponed due to the Tehran giants&#8217; AFC Champions League match on Wednesday. The Blues now have three games in hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; AHVAZ, Leaders Foolad Khuzestan suffered their second defeat of the season on Thursday,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":2674,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}