{"id":30654,"date":"2018-02-02T14:58:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T22:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=30654"},"modified":"2018-02-02T23:59:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T07:59:54","slug":"pgpl-persepolis-one-step-closer-to-league-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/02\/02\/pgpl-persepolis-one-step-closer-to-league-title\/","title":{"rendered":"PGPL: Persepolis one step closer to league title [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN,<strong> Persepolis football team moved one step closer to reclaiming the Persian Gulf Pro League (PGPL) title after beating Sepahan 2-0 on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Reds wasted little time asserting their authority with a goal inside the 10th minute to immediately take control of the match in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Alipour scored his 15th goal for Persepolis just 10 minutes into the match with a powerful left-footed strike from the edge of the box.<\/p>\n<p>Former Sepahan defender Shoja Khalilzadeh extended the lead in the 68th minute, finding the back of the net with a header.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very satisfied with the performance we did. We could have scored more goals and I think Persepolis were deserved to win the match,\u201d Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic said in the post-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Padideh suffered a 3-0 home defeat to Tractor Sazi, Sepidrood drew 1-1 with Esteghlal Khuzestan and Pars Jonoubi and Saipa shared the spoils in a 0-0 draw.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis moved clear 15 points at top of the table with 51 points.<\/p>\n<p>Foolad sits in second place with 36 points but the Ahvaz-based team have two matches in hands.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eIgwpNI44yw\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eIgwpNI44yw<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FUn8zjsvo_I\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FUn8zjsvo_I<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GF4_MABYaJ0\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GF4_MABYaJ0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis football team moved one step closer to reclaiming the Persian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":30655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,91,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-c20-other-news","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":1463,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30654","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=30654"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30658,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30654\/revisions\/30658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}