{"id":17273,"date":"2014-02-09T20:27:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T04:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=17273"},"modified":"2014-02-09T21:37:22","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T05:37:22","slug":"esteghlal-beat-saipa-as-title-race-stays-wide-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/02\/09\/esteghlal-beat-saipa-as-title-race-stays-wide-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal beat Saipa as title race stays wide open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, \u00a0<strong>The race for the Iran Professional League title remained wide open when leader Esteghlal defeated Saipa 2-0, second-placed Foolad edged Malavan 1-0 and third-placed Naft crushed Tractor Sazi 3-0.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arash Borhani celebrated his 100th goal for Esteghlal after he found the back of the net in the 55th minute. Boubacar Kebe extended Esteghlal\u2019s lead in the 74th minute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks God we got all three points. After we were omitted from Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup, I am happy we defeated Saipa and stayed on top of the table. Also, I congratulate Arash (Borhani) because he scored his 100th goal for our team,\u201d Esteghlal coach Amir Ghalenoei said.<\/p>\n<p>Foolad edged Malavan in Bandar Anzali thanks to a late goal from Mehrdad Jamaati.<\/p>\n<p>Naft pummeled Tractor Sazi 3-0 in Tehran\u2019s Takhti Stadium. Reza Norouzi scored twice in the 46th and 55th minutes and Mojtaba Shiri was on target in the 90th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis drew 1-1 with relegation-threatened Sepasi in Shiraz. Jalal Hosseini found the back of the net with a header in the 50th minute and Jalaleddin Alimohammadi leveled the match in the 66th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Gostaresh Foolad of Tabriz and Mes of Kerman played out a goalless draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, \u00a0The race for the Iran Professional League title remained wide open&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25049,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":3312,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17273","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=17273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}