{"id":39772,"date":"2020-07-23T14:29:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T21:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=39772"},"modified":"2020-07-23T14:29:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T21:29:43","slug":"ipl-esteghlals-title-hopes-suffer-jolt-after-nassaji-draw-foolad-wins-in-isfahan-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/07\/23\/ipl-esteghlals-title-hopes-suffer-jolt-after-nassaji-draw-foolad-wins-in-isfahan-video\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL: Esteghlal\u2019s title hopes suffer jolt after Nassaji draw, Foolad wins in Isfahan [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal\u2019s faint title challenge took another blow with a 1-1 draw here against Nassaji in Iran Professional League (IPL) on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Blues should have won the match if they wanted to keep their faint title hopes alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cheick Diabate put Esteghlal into the lead from the penalty spot in the 40th minute but Mohammad Miri equalized the match with a long-range strike after two minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The draw left Esteghlal 17 points behind arch rivals Persepolis who have one game in hands. From now on, Esteghlal must focus on winning a berth in the next season\u2019s AFC Champions League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Mashhad, Tractor were held to a 0-0 draw by Shahr Khodro and also missed their chances of winning the title for the first time ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foolad also earned a late 2-1 win over Zob Ahan in Isfahan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rock-bottom Shahin drew 1-1 with Saipa in Bushehr, Paykan and Pars Jonoubi played out a goalless draw in Tehran and Sepahan edged Sanat Naft 1-0 in Isfahan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gol Gohar defeated Machine Sazi 2-1 in Tabriz and the result leaves them three points above the drop zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis will win the title with a draw against Naft Masjed Soleyman on Friday.<\/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=J0RdGSCvl5k\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=OksoCcdpAoc\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=hvPOhPY3q_0\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=OLN7XjiuqDM\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal\u2019s faint title challenge took another blow with a 1-1 draw&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":39773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":514,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39772","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=39772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39774,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39772\/revisions\/39774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}