{"id":17032,"date":"2014-01-17T22:47:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T06:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=17032"},"modified":"2014-01-18T22:14:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T06:14:48","slug":"persepolis-esteghlal-tie-0-0-in-78th-tehran-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/01\/17\/persepolis-esteghlal-tie-0-0-in-78th-tehran-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis, Esteghlal tie 0-0 in 78th Tehran derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PressTV &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis and Esteghlal have played out to a scoreless draw in the 78th Tehran derby held in the 23rd week of Iran\u2019s Premier League (IPL).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Around 90,000 fans gathered at Azadi stadium in Tehran to watch the match, which ended 0-0 on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The encounter was the 36th draw in the history of Tehran derby, which the Blues have won 24 times and the Reds 18 times so far.<\/p>\n<p>The Tehrani giants failed to score a goal for the fourth encounter in a row, putting the number of scoreless derbies at 17.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal head coach Amir Qalenoei hailed the Blues fans following the match, saying, \u201cin the first half we played well but in the second, Persepolis was better than us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis head coach Ali Daei made a similar comment saying his team had the upper hand in the second half &#8220;but that&#8217;s how football is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other matches of the 23rd week, Fajr Sepasi defeated Damash 3-1, Malavan edged past Saipa 2-1, Esteqlal Khuzestan beat Gostaresh Foulad 3-1, Rah Ahan tied with Sepahan 1-1, Teraktorsazi drew with Saba also 1-1, and the match between Zob Ahan and Foulad ended 0-0.<\/p>\n<p>In the last match of the week, Mes will take on Naft Tehran on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal is currently on top of the IPL table with 45 points and is followed by Foulad with 43, and Persepolis with 41 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PressTV &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis and Esteghlal have played out to a scoreless draw in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":10951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":3085,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17032","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=17032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}