{"id":26088,"date":"2016-09-16T09:59:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T16:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26088"},"modified":"2016-09-16T09:59:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T16:59:01","slug":"ipl-tehran-derby-ends-in-stalemate-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/09\/16\/ipl-tehran-derby-ends-in-stalemate-video\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL: Tehran Derby ends in stalemate [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis football team could not return to top of the Iran Professional League (IPL) after a goalless draw against arch rival Esteghlal on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Persepolis could return to the top of the table with a win at Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium but failed to find back of the net.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal also has yet to win a single match after six weeks and remained 14th.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s striker Volodymyr Pryyomov opened Esteghlal\u2019s goal in the injury time but disallowed by referee Alireza Faghani due to offside. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am sorry because we didn\u2019t win the match but you must consider that Esteghlal is one the best football teams in the league and has quality players. Without a doubt, they will move up in the upcoming weeks,\u201d Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic said in the post-match press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal leads the head to head results in competitive matches with 24 wins to Persepolis&#8217;s 20, and 39 matches ended in a draw.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran derby is a football match between the two prominent Tehran clubs Esteghlal (Blues) and Persepolis (Reds).<\/p>\n<p>World Soccer magazine in June 2008 declared this match as the most important derby in Asia and 22nd most important derby in the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xbuh9dBqCd0\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xbuh9dBqCd0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis football team could not return to top of the Iran Professional&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":26089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division","category-c20-other-news"],"views":2726,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26088","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=26088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}