{"id":21118,"date":"2015-04-11T05:16:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T12:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=21118"},"modified":"2015-04-11T05:16:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T12:16:01","slug":"esteghlal-out-of-ipl-title-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/04\/11\/esteghlal-out-of-ipl-title-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal Out of IPL Title Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal of Tehran faced an uphill task to win the Iranian Professional League (IPL) after being held by Zob Ahan on Friday evening.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal drew 1-1 with Zob Ahan in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Omid Ebrahimi put Esteghlal ahead in the 63rd minute from the penalty spot.<\/p>\n<p>Danial Esmaeilifar equalized the match in the 75th minute with a header.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it was a beautiful game and I am satisfied with the way my players performed, but I\u2019d rather lose or win than play for draw,\u201d Esteghlal coach Amir Ghalenoei said in the post-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>With five weeks remaining, Esteghlal is third in the Iran Professional League table with 42 points, six points behind leader Naft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal of Tehran faced an uphill task to win the Iranian Professional&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":21119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":1505,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21118","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=21118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}