{"id":34506,"date":"2018-12-16T08:01:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T16:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34506"},"modified":"2018-12-16T08:01:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T16:01:58","slug":"ipl-leaders-sepahan-held-by-rock-bottom-esteghlal-khuzestan-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/12\/16\/ipl-leaders-sepahan-held-by-rock-bottom-esteghlal-khuzestan-video\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL leaders Sepahan held by rock-bottom Esteghlal Khuzestan [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ISFAHAN, <strong>Sepahan football team moved back to the top of the Iran Professional League after a 1-1 draw against Esteghlal Khuzestan on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the match held at the Ghadir Stadium in Ahvaz, Sasan Ansari found the back of the net from a set-piece in the 24th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Meysam Karimi levelled the match from the penalty spot nine minutes before the interval.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could have scored more goals but our strikers squandered their chances. I don\u2019t want to talk about the referee but I think their goal was not correct,\u201d Esteghlal Khuzestan coach Karim Bustani said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are satisfied with the result because Sepahan are a strong team and their position in the table shows how powerful they are,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Sepahan finished the first half of the IPL season on top of the table with 31 points over Padideh and Persepolis on goal difference. <\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal Khuzestan, in contrast, sit bottom of the table with two wins from 15 games played this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Iran league resumes after the 2019 AFC Asian Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The competition was scheduled to take place from Jan. 5 to Feb. 1 in the UAE.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KnIZ2nmbgt8\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KnIZ2nmbgt8<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ISFAHAN, Sepahan football team moved back to the top of the Iran&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division"],"views":377,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34506","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=34506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34508,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34506\/revisions\/34508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}