{"id":20760,"date":"2015-03-12T12:24:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T19:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=20760"},"modified":"2015-03-25T15:42:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T22:42:38","slug":"naft-stays-top-of-iran-professional-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/03\/12\/naft-stays-top-of-iran-professional-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Naft Stays Top of Iran Professional League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Naft Tehran stayed top of the Iran Professional League (IPL) after beating Esteghlal 1-0 here on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brazilian striker Leonardo Padovani found the back of the net with a header in the 80th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, 10-man Naft Masjed Soleyman came from Behind to draw 2-2 with Persepolis.<\/p>\n<p>Omid Alishah scored for the visiting team in the 23rd minute and Ali Alipour made it 2-0 for Persepolis.<\/p>\n<p>Keyvan Amraei pulled a goal back in the 43rd minute.<\/p>\n<p>Ruslan Melziddinov received a straight red card in the 57th minute after reckless challenge on Persepolis keeper Sosha Makani.<\/p>\n<p>Naft put Persepolis under pressure in the last minutes and Reza Karmolachaab finally equalized the match in the injury time.<\/p>\n<p>In Tehran, Tractor Sazi beat Rah Ahan 3-0 in its away game. Farid Karimi scored in the 43rd minute. Mehdi Kiani and Luciano Edinho also scored in the 85th and 87th minutes respectively.<\/p>\n<p>In Tabriz, title holder Foolad lost to Gostaresh 3-1. Jaber Ansari scored twice in the 9th and 65th minutes and Magno Batista also found the back of the net from the penalty spot in the 37th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Ghazi scored a consolation goal in the 72nd minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Naft Tehran stayed top of the Iran Professional League (IPL) after beating&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":20877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":3064,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20760","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=20760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}