{"id":19007,"date":"2014-08-09T12:47:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T19:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19007"},"modified":"2014-08-09T12:57:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T19:57:51","slug":"persepolis-lose-esteghlal-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/08\/09\/persepolis-lose-esteghlal-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis lose, Esteghlal win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Tehran&#8217;s Persepolis football team lost to Foolad in the 2nd week of the Iran Professional League (IPL) on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the match held at the Ghadir Stadium in Ahvaz, Persepolis, who was held to a 1-1 draw against Naft in the opening week, lost to Foolad 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Soroush Rafiei was on target just a minute before the half time and Esmaeil Sharifat extended Foolad\u2019s lead in the 53rd minute.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis midfielder Payam Sadeghian was sent off in the 85th minute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFoolad deserved to win. We just played in the first 15 minutes of the first half,\u201d Persepolis coach Ali Daei said in the news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had changes in the second half but they didn\u2019t work. Things went from bad to worse after our team reduced to 10-man in last minutes,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Sepahan beat Gostaresh 2-0 in its away game, Naft Tehran lost to Rah Ahan 2-1 and Paykan played out a goalless draw with Saipa.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Tehran&#8217;s giant blues Esteghlal snatched a late win thanks to an extra time goal from Sajad Shahbazzadeh.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian popular team beat Esteghlal Khuzestan in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium in the second week of the Iran Professional League (IPL) and moved to the second place.<\/p>\n<p>Shabazzadeh found the back of the net in the stoppage time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst, I would like to congratulate Abdollah Veisi (Esteghlal Khuzestan coach) because of their performance. Both teams played well but we took advantage of our chances,\u201d Esteghlal coach Amir Ghalenoei said.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal is second in IPL table with six points behind Sepahan on goal difference.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Malavan and Saba played out a goalless draw, Zob Ahan was held to a goalless draw against Tractor Sazi and Naft Masjed Soleyman suffered a 3-0 home defeat against Padideh.<\/p>\n<p>Yunes Shakeri, Akbar Sadeghi and Reza Enayati were on target for Padideh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Tehran&#8217;s Persepolis football team lost to Foolad in the 2nd week of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":10869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":4155,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19007","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=19007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}