{"id":24772,"date":"2016-04-04T16:25:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T23:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=24772"},"modified":"2016-04-04T16:25:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T23:25:57","slug":"esteghlal-held-by-esteghlal-khouzestan-10-man-persepolis-beats-siah-jamegan-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/04\/04\/esteghlal-held-by-esteghlal-khouzestan-10-man-persepolis-beats-siah-jamegan-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal held by Esteghlal Khouzestan, 10-man Persepolis beats Siah Jamegan [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN,<strong> Esteghlal football team was held to a 1-1 draw against second-place Esteghlal Khouzestan in the 24th week of the Iran Professional League (IPL) in front of more than 25,000 fans at Ahvaz\u2019s Ghadir Stadium on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meysam Majidi put Esteghlal in front in the 31st minute but Farshad Salarvand leveled the score with a wonderful long-range shot in the 73th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal remains at the IPL top with 44 points followed by 43-point Esteghlal Khouzestan.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Sunday, 10-man Persepolis edged past Siah Jamegan 3-2 in the empty Azadi Stadium. Hossein Karimi opened the scoring for Siah Jamegan five minutes into the game but Mehdi Taremi leveled the score for Persepolis in the 40th minute.<\/p>\n<p>In the 59th minute former Persepolis player Hamidreza Aliasgari was fouled inside the box by Persepolis goalie Sosha Makani and the referee showed a red card to Makani and also awarded a penalty to Siah Jamegan. Meysam Hosseini converted the penalty to make it 2-1 for the visiting team.<\/p>\n<p>In the final twenty minutes of the game Persepolis had excellent performance and scored twice to complete a great comeback. Ali Alipour and Mehdi Taremi scored in 70th and 83th minute respectively to give the Reds the three vital points.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Padideh defeated Esteghlal Ahvaz 2-0 and Naft Tehran defeated Rah Ahan 1-0.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Esteghlal Khouzestan 1:1 Esteghlal Tehran<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZMNAA8R8GMo\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZMNAA8R8GMo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Persepolis 3:2 Siah Jamegan<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LZPVqsDu8ZE\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LZPVqsDu8ZE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Padideh 2:0 Esteghlal Ahvaz<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=65mwNE-nWC8\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=65mwNE-nWC8<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal football team was held to a 1-1 draw against second-place&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":24773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division","category-c20-other-news"],"views":1639,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24772","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=24772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}