{"id":33797,"date":"2018-10-20T11:56:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T18:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=33797"},"modified":"2018-10-20T11:56:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T18:56:19","slug":"ipl-esteghlal-move-up-to-fifth-place-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/10\/20\/ipl-esteghlal-move-up-to-fifth-place-video\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL: Esteghlal move up to fifth place [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal football team defeated Saipa 2-1 to move up to fifth place in the Iran Professional League table.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the Blues earned their third victory in the current season, beating Saipa 2-1 in Tehran\u2019s Takhti Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Dashti put Saipa into the lead just seven minutes into the match after dribbling past four Esteghlal players but Mohammad Daneshgar equalized the match in the 23rd minute.<\/p>\n<p>With nine minutes remaining, Vouria Ghafouri found the back of the net for Esteghlal from the penalty spot.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal moved to fifth place with six points adrift of the top.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Machine Sazi was held to a 1-1 draw by Naft Masjed Soleyman, Sepidrood Rasht played out a goalless draw against Zob Ahan, Sepahan defeated 3-2 Nassaji and Pars Jonoubi beat Esteghlal Khuzestan 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday IPL leader Padideh beat Foolad 2-0 to cement their place at the top.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Sanat Naft will host Tractor Sazi in Abadan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w-tsPIGSYZA\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w-tsPIGSYZA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal football team defeated Saipa 2-1 to move up to fifth&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":33798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division"],"views":482,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33797","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=33797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33799,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33797\/revisions\/33799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}