{"id":26324,"date":"2016-10-20T22:50:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T05:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26324"},"modified":"2016-10-20T22:50:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T05:50:47","slug":"ipl-persepolis-held-by-esteghlal-khuzestan-naft-tehran-defeats-zob-ahan-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/10\/20\/ipl-persepolis-held-by-esteghlal-khuzestan-naft-tehran-defeats-zob-ahan-video\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL: Persepolis held by Esteghlal Khuzestan, Naft Tehran defeats Zob Ahan [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; AHVAZ, <strong>Persepolis football team was held to a 1-1 draw by Esteghlal Khuzestan in Iran Professional League on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rahim Mehdi Zohaivi gave the holder a lead in the 35th minute in the match held in Ahvaz\u2019s Ghadir Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>In the 53rd minute, Persepolis striker Ali Alipour was brought down in the area and the referee awarded the visiting team a penalty but Hossein Mahini failed to score.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis continued its supremacy in the second half and eventually equalized the match with a header by Farshad Ahmadzadeh in the 83rd minute.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Tractor Sazi was held to a 2-2 draw by Foolad in Tabriz and Naft Tehran earned a late 2-1 victory over Zobahan.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis arch rival Esteghlal will play Saipa on Friday in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis stays top of the table with 19 points from nine weeks, two points clear of Tractor Sazi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Esteghlal Khuzestan 1:1 Persepolis<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I9nO113MAqI\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I9nO113MAqI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tractor Sazi 2:2 Foolad<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0QL7NvuXjxo\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0QL7NvuXjxo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Naft Tehran 2:1 Zob Ahan<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I_cwHVcb180\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I_cwHVcb180<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; AHVAZ, Persepolis football team was held to a 1-1 draw by Esteghlal Khuzestan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":26325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":2128,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26324","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=26324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}