{"id":40894,"date":"2020-11-07T08:32:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T16:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=40894"},"modified":"2020-11-07T08:32:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T16:32:26","slug":"esteghlal-victorious-in-iran-league-opener-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/11\/07\/esteghlal-victorious-in-iran-league-opener-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal victorious in Iran league opener [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal football team defeated newly-promoted Mes Rafsanjan 2-0 in the opening match of the 2020\/21 Iran Professional League (IPL) on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vouria Ghafouri gave the hosts the lead in the 58th minute and Arsalan Motahari made it 2-0 in the 66th minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Sirjan, Gol Gohar defeated Sepahan 3-1 and it\u2019s a dream start for Amir Ghalenoei\u2019s side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mohammadreza Hosseini put the visiting team into the lead in the 13th minute but Saeid Sadeghi equalized the match in the 30th minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gol Gohar Nigerian forward Godwin Mensha headed home in the 55th minute and Younes Shakeri made it 3-1 three minutes later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Mashhad, Shahr Khodro defeated Machine Sazi 3-0 thanks to a brace from Amin Ghaseminejad in the first half and a goal from Hassan Jafari in the added time.<\/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=pcNmkd8qTbU\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=STqwLCMpfY4\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=8ThZuwvhQ4E\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal football team defeated newly-promoted Mes Rafsanjan 2-0 in the opening&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":40895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,84,92,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":632,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40894","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=40894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40896,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40894\/revisions\/40896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}