{"id":27397,"date":"2017-03-04T20:27:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T04:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27397"},"modified":"2017-03-04T20:27:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T04:27:42","slug":"ipl-esteghlal-tehran-frustrated-by-lowly-siah-jamegan-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/03\/04\/ipl-esteghlal-tehran-frustrated-by-lowly-siah-jamegan-video\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL: Esteghlal Tehran frustrated by lowly Siah Jamegan [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal football team missed a chance to close the gap on Persepolis at the top of the Iran Professional League (IPL) on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the match held in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium, Esteghlal were held to a 1-1 draw by struggling Siah Jamegan.<\/p>\n<p>Former Esteghlal striker Goran Jerkovic found the back of the net in the 44th minute.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues were dominant in the second half and created several chances but failed to score.<\/p>\n<p>In the 65th minute, the Esteghlal\u2019s player was brought down in the area and Omid Ebrahimi converted his penalty into the goal.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Esteghlal Khuzestan edged past rock-bottom Machine Sazi 1-0 in Ahwaz.<\/p>\n<p>Hassan Beitsaeid scored the winner in the 34th minute.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, IPL pacesetters Persepolis will play Naft Tehran at the Takhti Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis lead the top with 50 points, five points clear of Tractor Sazi.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal are third with 41 points.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iqyH0ZCztXc\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iqyH0ZCztXc<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l32PBj0CXXE\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l32PBj0CXXE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal football team missed a chance to close the gap on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":2716,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27397","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=27397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}