{"id":35805,"date":"2019-03-17T19:09:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T02:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35805"},"modified":"2019-03-17T19:10:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T02:10:47","slug":"ipl-persepolis-back-on-top-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/03\/17\/ipl-persepolis-back-on-top-video\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL: Persepolis back on top, Esteghlal defeats Nassaji [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; RASHT, <strong>Persepolis football team defeated Sepidrood 3-1 and to move top of the Iran Professional League (IPL) table on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ali Alipour opened the scoring for the visiting team just 10 minutes into the match in Rasht\u2019s Sardar-e Jangal Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahmad Nourollahi made it 2-0 in the 31st&nbsp;minute and Siamak Nemati scored Persepolis\u2019s third goal in the 40th&nbsp;minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mehrdad Bayrami pulled a goal back in the 67th&nbsp;minute and also missed a penalty one minute later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFirst, I would like to congratulate the Persian New Year. I am satisfied with our performance. We created several opportunities in this match but failed to score in the second half. I think it\u2019s important we finish the year at the top of the table,\u201d Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, Persepolis\u2019s arch rivals Esteghlal edged past Nassaji 1-0 in Tehran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morteza Tabrizi found the back of the net from the penalty spot in the first half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis moved up top of the table with 45 points, two points above Esteghlal.<\/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=4cvtftI59p8\n<\/div><\/figure>\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=pKFd9qbgxac\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; RASHT, Persepolis football team defeated Sepidrood 3-1 and to move top of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,84,164,136,172,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persepolis","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":479,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35805","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=35805"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35809,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35805\/revisions\/35809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}