{"id":16684,"date":"2013-12-20T11:55:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T19:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=16684"},"modified":"2013-12-20T11:55:05","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T19:55:05","slug":"esteghlal-beats-saba-in-ipl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/12\/20\/esteghlal-beats-saba-in-ipl\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal beats Saba in IPL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; QOM, <strong>Esteghlal football team defeated Saba in the Iranian Professional League (IPL) on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>IPL title holder defeated Saba 2-1 at the Yadegare-Emam Stadium in Qom. The victory pushed Esteghlal up to third place, one point behind leader Persepolis.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Ghazi opened the scoring for the visiting team in the 40th minute. Pejman Montazeri extended Esteghlal\u2019s lead in the 66th minute.<\/p>\n<p>With 10 minutes remaining, Reza Enayati pulled a goal back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am happy since we defeated Saba for the first time in Qom. Esteghlal played well in this match but we conceded a stupid goal,\u201d Amir Ghalenoei said in the post match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Sepahan defeated Tractor Sazi 2-1 in Tabriz. Mehdi Sharifi and Omid Ebrahimi scored for Sepahan in the 45th and 90th minutes and Karim Ansarifard was on target in the 83rd minute for Tractor.<\/p>\n<p>Naft defeated Rah Ahan 3-1 and stayed at second place on goal difference. Damash lost to Foolad 2-1 in its home game.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Persepolis edged Saipa thanks to a header by Mohsen Mosalman. Fajr Sepasi and Gostaresh Foolad played out a goalless draw. Esteghlal Sanati lost 2-0 to Malavan in home and Zob Ahan and Mes drew 1-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; QOM, Esteghlal football team defeated Saba in the Iranian Professional League (IPL)&#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-16684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":2695,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16684","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=16684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16684\/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=16684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}