{"id":19349,"date":"2014-10-03T12:45:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T19:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19349"},"modified":"2014-10-03T12:45:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T19:45:19","slug":"esteghlal-victorious-in-iran-professional-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/10\/03\/esteghlal-victorious-in-iran-professional-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal Victorious in Iran Professional League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim, TEHRAN &#8211; <strong>Esteghlal of Tehran ended its run of three successive defeats with a 3-1 victory over Malavan of Anzali in the Iranian Professional League (IPL) on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Blues needed to emerge victorious in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium. They defeated Malavan 3-1. Omid Ebrahimi gave a lead Esteghlal in the 33rd minute from the penalty spot.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Ghazi extended the lead in the 40th minute. Jalal Rafkhaei pulled a goal back from the penalty spot in the 55th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Malavan put Esteghlal under pressure and could have equalized the match but Esteghlal striker Sajjad Shahbazzadeh made it 3-1 with seven minutes remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Gostaresh Foolad lost to Padideh 1-0, Naft played out a goalless draw against Zob Ahan and Esteghlal Khuzestan edged Rah Ahan 1-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim, TEHRAN &#8211; Esteghlal of Tehran ended its run of three successive defeats with a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":4687,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19349","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=19349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}