{"id":29859,"date":"2017-11-25T17:45:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T01:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29859"},"modified":"2017-11-25T17:45:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T01:45:32","slug":"pgpl-persepolis-returns-to-the-top-esteghlal-wins-in-azadi-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/11\/25\/pgpl-persepolis-returns-to-the-top-esteghlal-wins-in-azadi-video\/","title":{"rendered":"PGPL: Persepolis returns to the top, Esteghlal wins in Azadi [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis football team returned to the top of the PGPL table with a late win over pacesetters Pars Jonoubi on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ali Mosleh, who came off the bench in the last minutes, scored the winner in the dying moments of the match.<\/p>\n<p>With one game in hand, Persepolis moved back to top of the table with 27 points, two points clear of Pars Jonoubi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so happy because we have defeated one of the best Iranian teams. I had already told my players Pars Jonoubi are a hard-working, competitive and disciplined team. To create scoring chance against the team is very difficult,\u201d Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic said in the post-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we were the better team and deserved to win the match. I congratulate this win to my players for believing that the win was possible,\u201d the Croat added.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal also defeated Gostaresh Foolad 2-0 in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium thank to a brace from Farshid Esmaeili.<\/p>\n<p>It was the Blues\u2019 fourth win in the current season after 13 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Zob Ahan suffered a 1-0 home loss to Foolad.<\/p>\n<p>Tractor Sazi defeated Sepidrood 2-1 in Tabriz and Saipa edged past Siahjamegan 1-0.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=71OHbUBoHtc\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=71OHbUBoHtc<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6QV97QlT6hg\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6QV97QlT6hg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KeEQBni6IsM\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KeEQBni6IsM<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TKMtTn52YZ0\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TKMtTn52YZ0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis football team returned to the top of the PGPL table&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":29860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29859","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":1139,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29859","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=29859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}