{"id":35606,"date":"2019-03-02T14:18:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T22:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35606"},"modified":"2019-03-02T14:18:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T22:18:08","slug":"ipl-tractor-sazi-keeps-title-hopes-alive-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/03\/02\/ipl-tractor-sazi-keeps-title-hopes-alive-video\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL: Tractor Sazi keeps title hopes alive [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TABRIZ, <strong>Tractor Sazi football team defeated Sepahan 2-0 to keep their title hopes alive in the Iran Professional League (IPL) on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tabriz based football team are fifth in IPL table, four points behind leaders Persepolis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mehdi Mehdipour was on target in the 38th minute with a long range shot from a set-piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anthony Stokes made it 2-0 from the penalty spot after the Irish forward was brought down in the area by Mehdi Kiani in the 72nd minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, Padideh were held to a goalless draw by Paykan in Tehran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Struggling Sepidrood lost to rock-bottom Esteghlal Khuzestan 2-1 and Naft Masjed Soleyman drew 2-2 with Nassaji Mazandaran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, Persepolis defeated Sanat Naft thanks to a goal from Ali Alipour in the first half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, Esteghlal defeated Foolad 3-1 in Ahvaz to keep their title hopes alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis sit top of the table with 41 points, two points clear of Padideh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sepahan are third with 38 points and one game in hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal and Tractor Sazi are fourth and fifth, respectively with 37 points.<\/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=E7LNn5PNM3U\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TABRIZ, Tractor Sazi football team defeated Sepahan 2-0 to keep their title&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35606","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":501,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35606","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=35606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35608,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35606\/revisions\/35608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}