{"id":41409,"date":"2021-01-11T08:22:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T16:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=41409"},"modified":"2021-01-11T08:22:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T16:22:06","slug":"ipl-esteghlal-escape-defeat-against-persepolis-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/01\/11\/ipl-esteghlal-escape-defeat-against-persepolis-video\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL: Esteghlal escape defeat against Persepolis [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal football team with earned a hard draw against Persepolis in Iran Professional League (IPL) on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the match held at the empty Azadi Stadium, two teams shared the spoils in a 2-2 draw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was Persepolis\u2019 fourth successive draw in the Iran league.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Reds have not won a single match after losing to Ulsan Hyundai on Dec. 19 in the final match of the 2020 AFC Champions League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal striker Arsalan Motahari was on target just one minute into the match after the Persepolis defenders made mistake into the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shortly after, Persepolis put the Blues under pressure but failed to equalize the match in the first half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis striker Mehdi Abdi benefitted from Esteghlal defenders\u2019 error in the 51st minute and found the back of the net.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abdi also set up Vahid Amiri for a chance and Persepolis player found the back of the net in the 66th minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis could have won more goals but their players wasted their chances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal forward Mehdi Ghaedi leveled the score in the dying moments of the match with a powerful strike inside the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal remain second place in the table with 19 points with one game in hands while Persepolis are eighth with 12 points with two games in hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The match was 94th competitive meetings between the two teams. Esteghlal have won 26, Persepolis 24 and the remaining 44 games finished as draws.<\/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=dsB3UH1SQ0k\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal football team with earned a hard draw against Persepolis in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":41411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,84,164,136,172,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41409","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-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":972,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41409","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=41409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41412,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41409\/revisions\/41412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}