{"id":17649,"date":"2014-03-28T19:12:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T02:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=17649"},"modified":"2014-03-28T19:12:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T02:12:51","slug":"iran-professional-league-esteghlal-loses-persepolis-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/03\/28\/iran-professional-league-esteghlal-loses-persepolis-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Professional League: Esteghlal Loses, Persepolis Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim News &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal football team suffered a home defeat while its arch rival Persepolis earned a valuable away victory in Iran Professional League (IPL).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Esteghlal lost to Naft in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Reza Norouzi scored the only goal of the match in stoppage time.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Persepolis defeated struggling Damash in Rasht thanks to Mohammad Abbaszadeh\u2019s goal in the 31st minute.<\/p>\n<p>The IPL leader, Foolad, beat Tractor Sazi 2-1 in Ahvaz.<\/p>\n<p>Karim Ansarifard gave the visiting team a lead after nine minutes but Mehdi Badrloo scored twice from the penalty spot in the 33rd and 73rd minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Sepahan was held to a 2-2 draw in Isfahan, Rah Ahan edged Esteghlal Sanati 1-0, Saba defeated relegation-threatened Zob Ahan 2-1, Fajr Sepasi drew 1-1 with rock-bottom Mes and Gostaresh Foolad lost to Malavan 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>With two weeks remaining, Foolad remains at top of the table with 54 points, followed by Persepolis (51), Naft (51) and Esteghlal (50).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim News &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal football team suffered a home defeat while its arch rival&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":4098,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17649","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}