{"id":29621,"date":"2017-10-31T14:08:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T21:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29621"},"modified":"2017-10-31T14:37:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T21:37:11","slug":"pgpl-persepolis-return-to-top-league-table-esteghlal-defeats-naft-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/10\/31\/pgpl-persepolis-return-to-top-league-table-esteghlal-defeats-naft-video\/","title":{"rendered":"PGPL: Persepolis return to top league table, Esteghlal defeats Naft Tehran [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis football team moved back to the top of PGPL table with a 2-0 win over Saipa on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the match held in Tehran\u2019s Takhti Stadium, Saipa defender Mohammadhossein Kananizadegan opened the own goal in the 20th minute. Ali Alipour made scoreboard 2-0 five minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, I would like to thank our fans for their great support. We earned an important victory over Saipa. I think Persepolis deserved to win the match,\u201d Branko Ivankovic said in the post-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were under pressure after AFC Champions League\u2019s elimination and narrow victory over Esteghlal in Tehran derby. The win eased pressure on us,\u201d the Croat added.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal also defeated Naft Tehran in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Farid Mohammadizadeh scored an own goal in the 55th goal and Jaber Ansari extended Esteghlal\u2019s lead 10 minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Paykan earned a late victory over Sepahan in Isfahan and moved up to second place.<\/p>\n<p>Padideh drew 2-2 with Foolad and Tractor Sazi and Zob Ahan played out a goalless draw.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis returned to top of the table with 23 points. Paykan are on equal points though with an inferior goal difference.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z-jOy6kTrdg\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z-jOy6kTrdg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ps_cz8qjLIo\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ps_cz8qjLIo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=03qlc9rvpXQ\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=03qlc9rvpXQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4ekyEKWlmNA\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4ekyEKWlmNA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis football team moved back to the top of PGPL table&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":29622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":2175,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29621","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=29621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}