{"id":22697,"date":"2015-09-21T12:40:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T19:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=22697"},"modified":"2015-09-21T12:41:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T19:41:39","slug":"ipl-esteghlal-defeats-naft-to-land-top-of-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/09\/21\/ipl-esteghlal-defeats-naft-to-land-top-of-table\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL: Esteghlal defeats Naft to land top of table [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mehr News &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal of Tehran won Naft of the city 2-1 in a rearranged fixture of round 5 of Iran\u2019s Pro League of soccer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The only remaining fixture of the 5th round which was postponed to let Naft focus on their Asian games was held on Monday at Azadi Stadium of Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal\u2019s listless victory brought Sepahan down from the top of the table where the clash is over 1 point between Esteghlal with 15 points and Sepahan with 14 followed by Esteghlal of Khuzestan and Zowbahan of Isfahan who have garnered 11 and 10 points respectively so far.<\/p>\n<p>While the two teams finished 1-1 at the end of the first half, Esteghlal was awarded a penalty in the second half which was converted by Omid Ebrahimi at the 57th minute to let the blues snatch the three points.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UivkGP5aLbU\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UivkGP5aLbU<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mehr News &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal of Tehran won Naft of the city 2-1 in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":22698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,136,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division","category-c20-other-news"],"views":1957,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22697","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=22697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}