{"id":16701,"date":"2013-12-24T22:21:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T06:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=16701"},"modified":"2013-12-25T11:37:53","modified_gmt":"2013-12-25T19:37:53","slug":"persepolis-stays-on-top-with-malavan-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/12\/24\/persepolis-stays-on-top-with-malavan-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis stays on top with Malavan win [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis football team stayed top of the Iranian Professional League (IPL) table after defeating Malavan on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian giant edged the Bandar Anzali based team thanks to a first half goal from Mohammad Reza Khalatbari at the Takhti Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m happy since we defeated Malavan in Anzali after eight years. We could have scored more but we couldn&#8217;t take the chances we created,\u201d Persepolis coach Ali Daei said in the post match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPersepolis deserves to win the title but we need more time,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal closed the gap on the IPL leader Persepolis to one point with a 1-0 win over Damash in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Hanif Omranzadeh found the back of the net in the 40th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Sepahan thrashed Fajr Sepasi 3-0, Saipa edged Zob Ahan 1-0, Mes was held to a 1-1 draw by Tractor Sazi, Foolad played out a goalless draw with Rah Ahan and Naft drew 0-0 with Esteghlal Sanati.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mK-BI1bdB_s\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mK-BI1bdB_s<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dOvser3c7U8\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dOvser3c7U8<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h1ofzBIjWCw\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h1ofzBIjWCw<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y8ZSZzXMpeU\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y8ZSZzXMpeU<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qHfG99VljJ8\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qHfG99VljJ8<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis football team stayed top of the Iranian Professional League (IPL)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25049,"featured_media":15828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":3188,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16701","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\/25049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}