{"id":30178,"date":"2017-12-24T13:54:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T21:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=30178"},"modified":"2017-12-24T13:54:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T21:54:01","slug":"pgpl-persepolis-draw-foolad-esteghlal-tehran-defeat-sanat-naft-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/12\/24\/pgpl-persepolis-draw-foolad-esteghlal-tehran-defeat-sanat-naft-video\/","title":{"rendered":"PGPL: Persepolis draw Foolad, Esteghlal Tehran defeat Sanat Naft [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; AHVAZ, <strong>Rahim Zahivi&#8217;s late goal denied Persepolis three points in a 1-1 draw in their league fixture in Ahvaz on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Persepolis football team put up a better display and opened the scoring through Godwin Mensha in the 15th minute, but one minute before the end of regulation time Zahivi found the back of the net with a long-range shot.<\/p>\n<p>He surpassed former Sepahan goalie Armenak Petrosian\u2019s old mark of 704.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expected a difficult match against Foolad and they played valiantly to level the scores. We have a long way ahead. I think the draw is a fair result,\u201d Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic said in the post-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>In Tehran, Esteghlal, who have bounced back in the recent weeks with German coach Winfried Schafer, defeated Sanat Naft 4-0 at the Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Mohsen Karimi netted twice in the 15th and 67th minutes. Dariush Shojaeian and Vouria Ghafouri also scored in the 42nd and 55th minutes respectively.<\/p>\n<p>In Abadan, Pars Jonoubi lost to Gostaresh Foolad 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Peyman Babaei scored in the 18th minute and Ahmad Mousavi added a late second.<\/p>\n<p>Tractor Sazi also defeated Esteghlal Khuzestan 3-0 in Tabriz. Mohammad Iranpourian opened the scoring from the penalty spot in the 27th minute and Omid Alishah and Ehsan pahlevan scored in the 45th and 93rd minutes respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis are top of the table with 37 points, followed by Pars jonoubi and Foolad with 29 and 28 points.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O9nCFRr40SE\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O9nCFRr40SE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8nksSdE2dPM\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8nksSdE2dPM<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P5TPft7WsCw\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P5TPft7WsCw<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; AHVAZ, Rahim Zahivi&#8217;s late goal denied Persepolis three points in a 1-1&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":30179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30178","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":1095,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30178","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=30178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}