{"id":27898,"date":"2017-04-30T11:27:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T18:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27898"},"modified":"2017-04-30T11:27:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T18:27:42","slug":"pgpl-esteghlal-defeats-padideh-persepolis-draw-with-zob-ahan-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/04\/30\/pgpl-esteghlal-defeats-padideh-persepolis-draw-with-zob-ahan-video\/","title":{"rendered":"PGPL: Esteghlal defeats Padideh, Persepolis draw with Zob Ahan [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; MASHHAD, <strong>Esteghlal football team leapfrogged Tractor Sazi to second place on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the penultimate week of the IPL season, Esteghlal beat Padideh 2-1 in Mashhad\u2019s Samen Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Omid Noorafkan and Jaber Ansari scored for the visiting team and Moein Abbasian was on target for Padideh.<\/p>\n<p>In Isfahan\u2019s Naghshe Jahan Stadium, Tractor Sazi lost to Sepahan 2-0 in a crucial match and moved down to third place.<\/p>\n<p>Mehrdad Mohammadi and Farid Behzadi Karimi (p) scored for Sepahan.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis, who had won the title with three games to spare, drew 3-3 with Zob Ahan in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammadreza Hosseini put the visitors ahead just seven minutes into the match. Jerry Bengtson made it 2-0 six minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Soroush Rafiei pulled a goal back in the 39th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Bengtson scored Zob Ahan\u2019s third goal in the 51st minute but Mehdi Taremi found the back of the net two minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>With 10 minutes remaining, Persepolis striker Ali Alipour was brought down in the penalty area and Taremi equalized the match from the spot.<\/p>\n<p>Machine Sazi, who was relegated from the IPL, was defeated against Siahjamegan 1-0, Foolad edged past Sanat Naft 1-0, Esteghlal Khuzestan drew 0-0 with Gostaresh Foolad and Paykan defeated Saipa 2-0.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zVvXnzrWFFQ\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zVvXnzrWFFQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cAsjtxKBVGk\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cAsjtxKBVGk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UrXu1_dOykM\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UrXu1_dOykM<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dox_s3_j_so\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dox_s3_j_so<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ETJYrdwuQ8U\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ETJYrdwuQ8U<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; MASHHAD, Esteghlal football team leapfrogged Tractor Sazi to second place on Saturday. In&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":5041,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27898","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=27898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}