{"id":36390,"date":"2019-05-15T19:10:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T02:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=36390"},"modified":"2019-05-15T19:10:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T02:10:12","slug":"ipl-persepolis-sepahan-vying-for-title-in-final-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/05\/15\/ipl-persepolis-sepahan-vying-for-title-in-final-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL: Persepolis, Sepahan vying for title in final weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Both Persepolis and Sepahan are trying to be winners of this season\u2019s Iran Professional League (IPL) title but only one team will be lifting the trophy on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Branko Ivankovic\u2019s team can win the title for the third time in a row with even a draw against Pars Jonoubi in Abadan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sepahan must defeat already-relegated Esteghlal Khuzestan if they want to keep their hopes alive to win the IPL title for the sixth time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis lead the table with 58 points, three points ahead of Sepahan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another Iranian popular football team Esteghlal, who are third in the table, will also try to book a place at the AFC Champions League\u2019s next season. The Blues will host Sepidrood, who need a win to avoid relegation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Padideh, as one of the best teams in the current season, will face Machine Sazi in Tabriz. Yayha Golmohammadi\u2019s team have a chance of winning a place at the AFC Champions League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, Saipa will play Sanat Naft in Abadan, Nassaji host Paykan, Naft Masjed Soleyman meet Zob Ahan and Foolad face Tractor Sazi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Both Persepolis and Sepahan are trying to be winners of this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":36391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,172,165,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persepolis","category-persian-gulf-pro-league","category-sepahan"],"views":604,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36390","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=36390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36392,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36390\/revisions\/36392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}