{"id":31377,"date":"2018-04-12T15:12:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T22:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31377"},"modified":"2018-04-12T15:12:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T22:12:24","slug":"pgpl-esteghlal-draw-gostaresh-foolad-persepolis-held-at-azadi-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/04\/12\/pgpl-esteghlal-draw-gostaresh-foolad-persepolis-held-at-azadi-video\/","title":{"rendered":"PGPL: Esteghlal draw Gostaresh Foolad, Persepolis held at Azadi [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TABRIZ, <strong>Iranian popular football teams Esteghlal and Persepolis were held to a draw in the Persian Gulf Professional League (PGPL) on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal drew 1-1 with Gostaresh Foolad in Tabriz. Ali Ghorbani scored for the visiting team just 11 minutes into the match.<\/p>\n<p>Gostaresh Foolad dominated the second half and equalized the match before the hour mark. Alireza Khaleghifar found the back of the net with a shot inside the box.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal moved provisionally up to second place in PGPL table.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis was also held to a 1-1 draw against Pars Janoubi in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Ebrahim Salahi scored from a tough angle in the 67th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis, who won the domestic league title for the 11th time on Sunday, created many chances to equalize in the match.<\/p>\n<p>In the dying moments of the match, substitute Kamal Kamyabinia levelled the scoreline.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis leads the table with 61 points, 13 points clear of Esteghlal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CjtymQ5fkM0\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CjtymQ5fkM0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4FxWprUbg04\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4FxWprUbg04<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TABRIZ, Iranian popular football teams Esteghlal and Persepolis were held to a draw&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":31378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31377","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":812,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31377","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=31377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31379,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31377\/revisions\/31379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}