{"id":17147,"date":"2014-01-27T11:44:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T19:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=17147"},"modified":"2014-01-27T11:44:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T19:44:00","slug":"esteghlal-escaped-defeat-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/01\/27\/esteghlal-escaped-defeat-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal escaped defeat at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal football team remained top of the Iranian Professional League (IPL) thanks to a Hanif Omranzadeh\u2019s late goal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Esteghlal was held to a 1-1 draw in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium by struggling Zob Ahan.<\/p>\n<p>Zob Ahan took the lead courtesy of a Mohsen Bayatinia strike after 24 minutes into the match.<\/p>\n<p>The visiting team created a few chances during the match but its strikers failed to take advantage of them.<\/p>\n<p>Omranzadeh\u2019s header equalized the match with five minutes remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Zob Ahan coach Mojtaba Taghavi was left frustrated after his side missed the victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not happy with the result. Zob Ahan was the better team but we made mistake and conceded a goal,\u201d Taghavi said in the post match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Sepahan defeated Esteghlal Sanati 3-1 in Isfahan, Malavan was held to a 1-1 draw by Tractor Sazi at home, Saba beat Damash 3-2, Sepasi lost to Rah Ahan 1-0 at home and Naft edged relegation-threatened Mes in Karman.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal stayed top of table on goal difference above Foolad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal football team remained top of 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-17147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":3027,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17147","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=17147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17147\/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=17147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}