{"id":27227,"date":"2017-02-16T14:46:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T22:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27227"},"modified":"2017-02-16T14:46:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T22:46:56","slug":"ipl-persepolis-and-esteghlal-victorious-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/02\/16\/ipl-persepolis-and-esteghlal-victorious-video\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL: Persepolis and Esteghlal victorious [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN,<strong> Iranian football giants Persepolis and Esteghlal emerged victorious at 22nd Round of Iran Professional League (IPL) on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>IPL leader Persepolis defeated Sepahan 2-1 at Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium in front of more than 70,000 cheering fans.<\/p>\n<p>Mehdi Taremi was tripped in the penalty area by Sepahan Brazilian goalkeeper Lee Oliveira in the 56th minute and the referee showed the penalty spot.<\/p>\n<p>Taremi opened the scoring after he received a short pass from Ramin Rezaeian from the penalty spot.<\/p>\n<p>Sepahan possessed the ball after conceding the goal and equalized the match in the 81st minute.<\/p>\n<p>Mehrdad Mohammadi was brought down by Persepolis defender Mohammad Ansari in the area and substitute Taleb Rikani converted the penalty.<\/p>\n<p>With three minutes remaining, the referee showed Sepahan\u2019s spot after the visiting team\u2019s captain Ehsan Hajisafi fouled on Taremi and was sent off after receiving his second yellow card.<\/p>\n<p>Rezaeian found the back of the net from the spot to seal a 2-1 victory for Persepolis.  <\/p>\n<p>Persepolis moved nine points clear at the top of IPL.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Esteghlal cemented its position in IPL third place after defeating Zob Ahan 2-0 in Isfahan\u2019s Foolad Shahr Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Farshid Esmaeili was on target with a header in the 23rd minute and Behnam Barzay doubled the scoreboard in the 79th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Foolad also drew 2-2 with Gostaresh in Ahvaz\u2019s Ghadir Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Siahjamegan will host Tractor Sazi, Saipa play Saba, Sanat Naft face Padideh and Machine Sazi entertain Naft Tehran.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Persepolis 2:1 Sepahan<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T6BTeILXqxk\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T6BTeILXqxk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Zob Ahan 0:2 Esteghlal Tehran<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bwFnQAetT_U\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bwFnQAetT_U<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Foolad 2:2 Gostaresh <\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EUTfOF7_veI\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EUTfOF7_veI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Iranian football giants Persepolis and Esteghlal emerged victorious at 22nd Round of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":3174,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27227","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=27227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}