{"id":42859,"date":"2021-07-07T10:38:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T17:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=42859"},"modified":"2021-07-07T10:38:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T17:38:45","slug":"ipl-persepolis-sepahan-held-esteghlal-still-on-course-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/07\/07\/ipl-persepolis-sepahan-held-esteghlal-still-on-course-video\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL: Persepolis, Sepahan held, Esteghlal still on course [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis and Sepahan football teams were held against their rivals and Esteghlal defeated Tractor to keep their title hopes alive with four games to go in Iran Professional League (IPL).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Ahvaz, Foolad and Persepolis played out a goalless draw at the Foolad Arena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis remained top of the table with 55 points, two points above Sepahan. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sepahan and Paykan shared the spoils in a 1-1 draw in Tehran. Alireza Kushki gave the hosts the lead in the 27th minute and Ehsan Haji Safi leveled the scoreboard 10 minutes later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal also defeated Tractor 2-1 in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium. Esteghlal are third with 47 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tractor defender Hadi Mohammadi scored an own goal in the 55th minute and Mehdi Ghaedi made it 2-0 four minutes later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tractor striker Amin Asadi halved the deficit in the stoppage time, four minutes after who came off the bench.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost-relegated Machine Sazi defeated Mes 3-0 in Tabriz and Gol Gohar beat Aluminum 2-1 in Kerman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Struggling Nassaji earned a 1-1 draw against Sanat Naft in Abadan and Shahr Khodro edged past Naft Masjed Soleyman 1-0 in Mashhad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MtV_peUSihk\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QdzH9sFyiVQ\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bng3vX1Gqns\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis and Sepahan football teams were held against their rivals and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":42861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,84,164,136,172,165,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42859","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-persian-gulf-pro-league","category-sepahan"],"views":548,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42859","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=42859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42862,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42859\/revisions\/42862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}