{"id":30319,"date":"2018-01-05T15:41:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T23:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=30319"},"modified":"2018-01-05T15:41:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T23:41:20","slug":"pgpl-persepolis-held-by-struggling-naft-tehran-zob-ahan-defeat-paykan-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/01\/05\/pgpl-persepolis-held-by-struggling-naft-tehran-zob-ahan-defeat-paykan-video\/","title":{"rendered":"PGPL: Persepolis held by struggling Naft Tehran, Zob Ahan defeat Paykan [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>League leaders, Persepolis, were unable to secure a win against struggling Naft Tehran here on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The match was held behind closed doors due to Persepolis\u2019s supporters actions during a 2-0 win over Tractor Sazi last week.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis created several scoring chances but failed to find the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had already said it would be one of our difficult matches. I am happy with the way we played but failed to score,\u201d Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Esteghlal drew 0-0 with Tractor Sazi in Tabriz\u2019s Yadegar Emam Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Tractor Sazi ended Esteghlal\u2019s three-match winning streak.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal goalkeeper Hossein Hosseini became the first goalkeeper in Iran Professional League history to not concede a goal in the first 787 minutes of play.<\/p>\n<p>Hosseini broke the previous mark set by Persepolis keeper Alireza Beiranvand.<\/p>\n<p>Hosseini surpassed Beiranvand\u2019s old mark of 719 set in late December.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Padideh edged past Sanat Naft 1-0, Zob Ahan defeated Paykan 2-1, Sepidrood suffered a 2-1 home defeat to Gostaresh Foolad, and Saipa beat Esteghlal Khuzestan 3-2.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis lead the table with 41 points, nine points ahead of Foolad who were held to a 1-1 draw by Siahjamegan on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PFajKhKoP3M\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PFajKhKoP3M<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=86cvMLVbp5s\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=86cvMLVbp5s<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZLEePwjNoAE\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZLEePwjNoAE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Rw0zfmjl8Ro\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Rw0zfmjl8Ro<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n9QSNMGrQoE\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n9QSNMGrQoE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZgzI3wegvQg\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZgzI3wegvQg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, League leaders, Persepolis, were unable to secure a win against struggling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":30320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30319","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":848,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30319","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=30319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}