{"id":36277,"date":"2019-05-04T20:12:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T03:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=36277"},"modified":"2019-05-04T20:14:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T03:14:16","slug":"azmouns-zenit-lift-russian-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/05\/04\/azmouns-zenit-lift-russian-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Azmoun&#8217;s Zenit lift Russian title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AFC &#8211; MOSCOW, <strong>Sardar Azmoun&#8217;s Zenit St Petersburg claimed their fifth Russian title on Saturday with a 1-1 draw at Akhmat Grozny after closest challengers Lokomotiv Moscow lost 2-0 at Arsenal Tula.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With three games to go Zenit are assured of the title with a nine-point lead and a better head-to-head record against second-placed Lokomotiv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was Zenit&#8217;s first title in four years and a great debut season for Republic of Iran international Azmoun, who has scored 12 goals in the campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"362\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snip20190504_11-700x362.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snip20190504_11-700x362.png 700w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snip20190504_11-150x78.png 150w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snip20190504_11-350x181.png 350w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snip20190504_11-768x398.png 768w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snip20190504_11.png 929w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Akhmat dominated Zenit but a combination of poor finishing and good goalkeeping by Andrei Lunev left the 13,000 home crowd frustrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 33rd minute Argentinian forward Sebastian Driussi scored for Zenit but his goal was disallowed for offside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brazilian midfielder Ismael put Akhmat into the lead 10 minutes after the break with an unopposed shot from 22 yards out. Zenit&#8217;s Driussi levelled the score with a 10-yard effort through traffic with three minutes remaining.<\/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\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Zenit\u2019s RPL Celebration\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xsl_8Hfti7Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; MOSCOW, Sardar Azmoun&#8217;s Zenit St Petersburg claimed their fifth Russian title on Saturday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":1563,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36277","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=36277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36280,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36277\/revisions\/36280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}