{"id":26926,"date":"2017-01-13T14:24:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T22:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26926"},"modified":"2017-01-13T14:24:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T22:24:56","slug":"ipl-persepolis-remains-top-of-table-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/01\/13\/ipl-persepolis-remains-top-of-table-video\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL: Persepolis remains top of table [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis football team defeated Saipa 1-0 here to stay top of Iran Professional League (IPL) table.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mehdi Taremi was on target for the Reds in the 47th minute with an acrobatic kick.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis was reduced to 10 men in the 55th minute after referee Hossein Zahedifar showed a straight red card to Farshad Ahmadzadeh due to preventing Saipa striker from a real goal scoring opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after, Saipa put 10-man Persepolis under pressure but failed to score.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis moved top of IPL table with 35 points, two points ahead of Tractor Sazi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to congratulate my players for the great game they played since we were playing a man down for more than half an hour. Our main goal is winning the title at the end of the season,\u201d Branko Ivankovic said in the post-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Zob Ahan edged past Siahjamegan thanks to Yaser Feyzi\u2019s 67th minute goal.<\/p>\n<p>Machine Sazi and Foolad played out a goalless draw in Tabriz and Padidieh drew 1-1 with Sepahan in Mashhad.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Esteghlal defeated Naft Tehran 1-0, Paykan and Gostaresh finished 1-1 and Tractor Sazi beat holder Esteghlal Khuzestan 1-0 in Ahvaz.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Persepolis 1:0 Saipa<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M3R-Vzg2CRc\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M3R-Vzg2CRc<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Zob Ahan 1:0 Siahjamegan<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hLCw5RUhdII\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hLCw5RUhdII<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Machine Sazi 0:0 Foolad<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eZtE4TnkOYU\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eZtE4TnkOYU<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Naft Tehran 0:1 Esteghlal Tehran <\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=evbHhWCE0fA\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=evbHhWCE0fA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Padideh 1:1 Sepahan<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CujxbKIDpJg\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CujxbKIDpJg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis football team defeated Saipa 1-0 here to stay top of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":26927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":2552,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26926","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=26926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}