{"id":35908,"date":"2019-03-30T12:44:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T19:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35908"},"modified":"2019-03-30T12:44:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T19:44:52","slug":"persepolis-edge-past-esteghlal-in-tehran-derby-video-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/03\/30\/persepolis-edge-past-esteghlal-in-tehran-derby-video-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis edge past Esteghlal in Tehran derby [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Ahmad Nourollahi\u2019s first-half goal proved enough to give Persepolis a crucial 1-0 win over Esteghlal in Tehran derby on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nourollahi scored with a header in the 21st minute in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal midfielder Farshid Bagheri missed a penalty in the 45th minute. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The chair of FIFA&#8217;s Referees&#8217; Committee Pierluigi Collina also watched the match from the stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal controlled possession in the second half but struggled to get shots on target.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was a great win for us but we have not finished yet. I think we will have a long road ahead of us to win the title for the third year in a row,\u201d Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic said in the post-match news conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis cemented their place at the top of Iran professional League with 48 points, five points above Esteghlal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tehran derby is a football match between the two prominent Tehran clubs Esteghlal (Blues) and Persepolis (Reds).<\/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=7omjlIdKcF4\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Ahmad Nourollahi\u2019s first-half goal proved enough to give Persepolis a crucial&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,84,164,136,172,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35908","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":2468,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35908","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=35908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35910,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35908\/revisions\/35910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}