{"id":20488,"date":"2015-02-07T06:39:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T14:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=20488"},"modified":"2015-02-07T06:39:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T14:39:24","slug":"foolad-moves-top-of-iran-professional-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/02\/07\/foolad-moves-top-of-iran-professional-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Foolad Moves Top of Iran professional League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim News &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Foolad of Khuzestan football team defeated Esteghlal Khuzestan in Ahvaz derby, moving two points clear of Naft at the top of the Iran Professional League (IPL) on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Foolad defeated 10-man Esteghlal 3-0 at the Ghadir Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal midfielder Mousa Coulibaly was sent off just five minutes into the match after receiving a straight red card.<\/p>\n<p>Mehdi Badrlou opened the scoring three minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Cameroonian striker Aloys Nong scored twice in the 28th and 82nd minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Foolad Croatian defender Leonard Mesaric also received a red card in the injury time.<\/p>\n<p>Foolad moved at the top of the IPL table with 37 points after 19 weeks, two points clear of Naft.<\/p>\n<p>In Tehran, Persepolis suffered its fourth successive defeat, losing to struggling Malavan 1-0 at the Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Pejman Nouri scored the only goal of the match in the 17th minute thanks to a big error from Persepolis goalie Sosha Makani. <\/p>\n<p>Persepolis could have equalized the match in the 89th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Malavan keeper Iman Sadeghi brought down Mohsen Bengar into the area, receiving a red card and was forced to leave the field but Brazilian midfielder Gabriel could not open the goal from the penalty spot.<\/p>\n<p>Padideh also defeated Tractor Sazi 3-1 in Tabriz\u2019s Yadegar Emam Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Reza Haghighi scored for Padideh in the 21st minute, but the match drew level four minutes before the halftime through an own goal.<\/p>\n<p>Bahodir Nasimov made it 2-1 in the 45th minute and Reza Nasehi scored the third goal for the visiting team six minutes later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim News &#8211; TEHRAN, Foolad of Khuzestan football team defeated Esteghlal Khuzestan in Ahvaz derby,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":20489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":2565,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20488","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}