{"id":35430,"date":"2019-02-06T14:35:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T22:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35430"},"modified":"2019-02-06T14:35:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T22:35:05","slug":"ipl-persepolis-go-top-with-victory-over-padideh-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/02\/06\/ipl-persepolis-go-top-with-victory-over-padideh-video\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL: Persepolis go top with victory over Padideh [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis football team went top of the Iran Professional League (IPL) table after defeating Padideh 2-0 in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iranian giants moved two points clear of Sepahan at the top and Padideh sit third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ali Alipour gave the lead the hosts in the 24th minute from the penalty spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eight minutes later, Siamak Nemati found the back of the net with a long-range shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe expected a very tough game because Padideh are one of the best teams. I am happy with this win and I think we deserved to win,\u201d Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic said in the post-match news conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe want to make our fans happy, that\u2019s why we are here. I say once again, I am satisfied with my team\u2019s performance because Padideh are a modern team and frankly they are favorites to win the title,\u201d the Croat added. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier on the day, Tractor Sazi defeated Naft Masjed Soleyman 3-0 in Tabriz thanks to second half goals from Ashkan Dejagah, Yukiya Sugita and Mohammad Hosseini who scored an own goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal will play Paykan on Thursday in Shahr-e Qods Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wDSJZiURDK8\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis football team went top of the Iran Professional League (IPL)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persepolis"],"views":629,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35430","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=35430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35432,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35430\/revisions\/35432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}