{"id":16533,"date":"2013-11-29T12:54:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T20:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=16533"},"modified":"2013-11-29T12:56:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T20:56:53","slug":"persepolis-loses-to-tractor-esteghlal-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/11\/29\/persepolis-loses-to-tractor-esteghlal-held\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis loses to Tractor, Esteghlal held [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TABRIZ, <strong>Tractor Sazi defeated Persepolis in the Iranian Professional League (IPL) and moved to the top of the table thanks to a goal from Karim Ansarifard.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The players observed a minute&#8217;s silence in Tabriz\u2019s Yadegar Emam Stadium in honor of the victims of earthquake in Bushehr.<\/p>\n<p>A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck about 40 miles northeast of Bushehr on Thursday, killing eight people and injuring about 45.<\/p>\n<p>It was a sweet revenge for Tractor Sazi. The Tabriz-based team lost to Persepolis 1-0 at the beginning of the IPL current season in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis defenders failed to clear a bouncing ball in the 41st minute and unmarked Karim Ansarifard found the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t deserve to lose the match. Persepolis played better in the second half. We created some chances but our strikers didn\u2019t take advantage of them. I also believe that the referee denied us two penalties,\u201d Ali Daei said in the post match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal was held to a goalless draw by Gostaresh Foolad in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Foolad played out a goalless draw against Sepahan, Mes beat Rah Ahan 2-0, Saipa lost to Damash 3-2, Naft defeated Fajr Sepasi 2-0 and Malavan beat Saba 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>Tractor Sazi moved to the top of the table with 29 points on goal difference, followed by Naft and Esteghlal.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the highlights from PFDC TV.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sipjHoZAzFA\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sipjHoZAzFA<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_SJvGTL_ND8\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_SJvGTL_ND8<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TABRIZ, Tractor Sazi defeated Persepolis in the Iranian Professional League (IPL) and&#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-16533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":3847,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16533","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=16533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}