{"id":17187,"date":"2014-01-31T14:09:46","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T22:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=17187"},"modified":"2014-01-31T14:09:46","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T22:09:46","slug":"persepolis-keeps-title-hope-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/01\/31\/persepolis-keeps-title-hope-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis keeps title hope alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis football team kept alive its title hopes, beating Sepahan on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Persepolis defeated Sepahan 2-0 thanks to two early goals from Mohammad Abbaszadeh and Hamidreza Aliasgari in the 12th and 18th minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Sepahan went down to 10 men in the 35th minute. Mehdi Sharifi was shown a straight red card for a tackle on Persepolis defender Mohsen Bengar.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Iran Professional League leader Esteghlal was held to a 1-1 draw against relegation-threatened Mes in Kerman. Mohammad Ghazi put the visiting team in a lead in the 42nd minute and Mes Brazilian striker Edinho found the back of the net in the injury time.<\/p>\n<p>Foolad played out a goalless draw against Saipa in its away game and Naft was defeated 2-0 by Malavan in Bandar Anzali.<\/p>\n<p>Zob Ahan and Gostaresh Foolad finished in a goalless draw. Esteghlal Sanati and Sepasi shared a 0-0 draw. Tractor Sazi played out a goalless draw against Damash. Rah Ahan drew 0-0 at home with Saba.<\/p>\n<p>With five matches left to play, Esteghlal remains top of the table on goal difference. Foolad is second and Persepolis is third, three points behind Esteghlal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis football team kept alive its title hopes, beating Sepahan on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":15722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":3461,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17187","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=17187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}