{"id":34411,"date":"2018-12-07T17:29:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T01:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34411"},"modified":"2018-12-07T17:29:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T01:29:10","slug":"ipl-esteghlal-return-to-title-race-padideh-held-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/12\/07\/ipl-esteghlal-return-to-title-race-padideh-held-video\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL: Esteghlal return to title race, Padideh held [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal football team defeated Sepidrood 5-0 in Iran Professional League (IPL) on Friday, while Padideh were held to a 2-2 draw by Machine Sazi.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Blues returned to the title race with this great win at the Sardar Jangal Stadium in Rasht.<\/p>\n<p>Winfried Schaefer\u2019s team are fifth, six points adrift of IPL leader Padideh.<\/p>\n<p>Farshid Bagheri gave the visiting team a lead just 12 minutes into the match.<\/p>\n<p>Bagheri completed his brace in the 34th minute to give Esteghlal a 2-0 lead in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Jaber Ansari made it 3-0 in the 57th minute and one minute later Sepidrood defender Meysam Tohidast scored an own goal.<\/p>\n<p>Reza Azari was on target in the 75th minute, pouring further salt into the wounds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very satisfied with the way we played against Sepidrood and I am very happy because we continue to make progress toward our goal,\u201d Schaefer said in the post-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a difficult job playing on an artificial turf and we deserved to win the match,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Padideh drew 2-2 with Machine Sazi in Mashhad\u2019s Imam Reza Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Amin Ghaseminejad was on target for Padideh just three minutes into the match but Peyman Babaei equalized the match in the 33rd minute.<\/p>\n<p>Six minutes later, Padideh forward Hossein Mehraban gave the hosts the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Hossein Kananizadegan leveled the score in the 52nd minute.<\/p>\n<p>Padideh moved up to top of the table with 30 points.<\/p>\n<p>Sepahan and Persepolis are second and third with 29 and 27 points, respectively with one game in their hands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y27FW_OPL-0\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y27FW_OPL-0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Rrc39FhH8TY\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Rrc39FhH8TY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal football team defeated Sepidrood 5-0 in Iran Professional League (IPL)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":722,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34411","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=34411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34413,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34411\/revisions\/34413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}