{"id":23042,"date":"2015-10-30T13:17:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T20:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=23042"},"modified":"2015-10-30T13:17:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T20:17:26","slug":"late-persepolis-equalizer-shocks-esteghlal-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/10\/30\/late-persepolis-equalizer-shocks-esteghlal-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Persepolis equalizer shocks Esteghlal [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The stunning last-gasp from Jerry Bengtson earned Persepolis a 1-1 draw at the Azadi Stadium on Friday. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the Week 11th of the Iran Professional League (IPL), Esteghlal suffered a disappointing draw against its arch-rival Persepolis. <\/p>\n<p>Jaber Ansari had fired Esteghlal into a 1-0 lead in the 49th minute. <\/p>\n<p>He found the back of the net with a header. <\/p>\n<p>Soon after, Persepolis put Esteghlal under pressure and created several chances but the Blues\u2019 keeper Mehdi Rahmati produced some brilliant saves. <\/p>\n<p>He had already denied Omid Alishah and Ahmad Nourollahi in the first half. <\/p>\n<p>In the dying moments of the match, unmarked Bengtson, who had come off the bench, equalized the match. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought we played well as a team and we deserved at least one point. If you don&#8217;t score then you will get punished,\u201d Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic said in the post-match news conference. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy players fought until the end, they didn&#8217;t give up the struggle and we deserved the draw,\u201d the Croat added. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that we could have won the match but our players squandered their chances. I am satisfied with the result,\u201d Branko concluded. <\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal and Persepolis have played against each other 81 times, with Esteghlal winning 24 games, Persepolis taking 20 victories, and 37 matches ending in a draw. <\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ob5bqqbSN84\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ob5bqqbSN84<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, The stunning last-gasp from Jerry Bengtson earned Persepolis a 1-1 draw&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":23043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":3317,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23042","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=23042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}