{"id":27929,"date":"2017-05-04T16:26:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T23:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27929"},"modified":"2017-05-04T16:26:45","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T23:26:45","slug":"pgpl-esteghlal-finish-second-tractor-sazi-end-season-in-third-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/05\/04\/pgpl-esteghlal-finish-second-tractor-sazi-end-season-in-third-video\/","title":{"rendered":"PGPL: Esteghlal finish second, Tractor Sazi end season in third [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal football team defeated Sepahan to finish runner-up in the Persian Gulf Pro League (PGPL) on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Blues came from behind to beat Sepahan 2-1 in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Mehrdad Mohammadi gave the visiting team a lead in the 40th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Jaber Ansari equalized the match on the hour mark with a header and substitute Farshid Bagheri scored the winner in the 87th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal finished in second place with 57 points, nine points adrift of PGPL champion Persepolis.<\/p>\n<p>Tractor Sazi came third in PGPL with 56 points. The Tabriz-based team defeated Naft Tehran 1-0 thanks to Edinho\u2019s injury time goal.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Saba lost to Esteghlal Khuzestan 2-1 and was relegated from IPL, Zob Ahan finished in fourth place after beating Padideh 2-0, Foolad lost to Paykan 2-0, Gostaresh Foolad edged past Sanat Naft, Saipa defeated Machine Sazi 1-0 and Persepolis lost to Siahjamegan 1-0.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CiVK4uaMh04\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CiVK4uaMh04<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s2SrPO60rzU\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s2SrPO60rzU<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SOOIvtkSWs8\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SOOIvtkSWs8<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KUspNhDdb1E\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KUspNhDdb1E<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal football team defeated Sepahan to finish runner-up in the Persian Gulf&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":4146,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27929","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=27929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}