{"id":16229,"date":"2013-10-25T10:48:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T17:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=16229"},"modified":"2013-10-26T07:36:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T14:36:24","slug":"esteghlal-upsets-ipl-leader-foolad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/10\/25\/esteghlal-upsets-ipl-leader-foolad\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal upsets IPL leader Foolad [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal defeated the Iranian Professional League (IPL) leader Foolad 2-0 in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the 18th minute, Foolad defender Omid Khaledi brought down Esteghlal striker Omid Nazari at the penalty area.<\/p>\n<p>Javad Nekounam dispatched his spot kick low into the corner.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, Foolad dominated the possession and made some chances. In the 38th minute, Leandro Chaves hit the bar from distance.<\/p>\n<p>In first half stoppage time, Andranik Teymourian struck a left-foot shot from outside the area.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, 10-man Naft came from behind to earn a 2-1 victory over Gostaresh in its away game in Tabriz and moved up to second place of the table.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Damash pummeled Zob Ahan 5-1 in Rasht, Saba was held to a 2-2 draw against Mes and Sepahan suffered a 2-1 loss against Malavan in Isfahan.<\/p>\n<p>Foolad is at the top of the IPL standings with 26 points, followed by Naft and Sepahan with 25 and 23 points respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal is sixth with 19 points with three games in hand.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bAgo3qCpO00\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bAgo3qCpO00<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal defeated the Iranian Professional League (IPL) leader Foolad 2-0 in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":15876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":2749,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16229","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=16229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}