{"id":24925,"date":"2016-04-15T15:42:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T22:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=24925"},"modified":"2016-04-15T16:18:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T23:18:18","slug":"persepolis-too-strong-for-esteghlal-in-tehran-derby-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/04\/15\/persepolis-too-strong-for-esteghlal-in-tehran-derby-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis Too Strong for Esteghlal in Tehran Derby [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim, TEHRAN \u2013 <strong>Persepolis football team earned a dramatic 4-2 victory over bitter-rival Esteghlal in Tehran derby on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With four weeks remaining, the Reds moved to top of Iran Professional League (IPL) table.<\/p>\n<p>Mehdi Taremi scored twice for Persepolis in the 5th and 35th minutes. He failed to score hat trick after Esteghlal goalkeeper Mehdi Rahmati saved his penalty in the 49th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis put Esteghlal under pressure in the early minutes of the second half and eventually scored its third goal.<\/p>\n<p>After Rahmati punched away Ahmadzadeh\u2019s cross, Ramin Rezaeian found the back of the net with a header.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal pulled a goal back one minute later after Persepolis goalkeeper Sosha Makani failed to save the ball inside the six-yard area and substitute Jaber Ansari opened the goal.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal controlled the ball and looked more dangerous team but Persepolis made it 4-1 on a counterattack. Mohsen Mosalman received a pass from Taremi and scored easily.<\/p>\n<p>With one minute remaining, Esteghlal midfielder Omid Ebrahimi scored from the penalty spot to make it 4-2.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis moved top of IPL with 48 points two points ahead of Esteghlal Khuzestan. Esteghlal is third with 45 points.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1O9x6v6i0dI\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1O9x6v6i0dI<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yi8rQvv1VeQ\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yi8rQvv1VeQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsmedia.tasnimnews.com\/Tasnim\/\/Uploaded\/Image\/1395\/01\/27\/139501272001579527517294.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsmedia.tasnimnews.com\/Tasnim\/\/Uploaded\/Image\/1395\/01\/27\/139501272001562687517294.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsmedia.tasnimnews.com\/Tasnim\/\/Uploaded\/Image\/1395\/01\/27\/139501272001546617517294.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim, TEHRAN \u2013 Persepolis football team earned a dramatic 4-2 victory over bitter-rival Esteghlal in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":3491,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24925","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}