{"id":43906,"date":"2021-10-20T09:55:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T16:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=43906"},"modified":"2021-10-20T09:55:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T16:55:13","slug":"ipl-sepahan-defeats-mes-rafsanjan-in-opener-to-start-season-on-high-note-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/10\/20\/ipl-sepahan-defeats-mes-rafsanjan-in-opener-to-start-season-on-high-note-video\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL: Sepahan defeats Mes Rafsanjan in opener to start season on high note [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; ISFAHAN, <strong>Sepahan defeated Mes Rafsanjan 2-0 in Matchday 1 of the 2021\/22 Iran Professional League (IPL) season on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sepahan, favorites to win the title, dominated the match in Isfahan\u2019s Neghsh-e Jahan Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Omid Nourafkan opened the scoring for the hosts in the 45th minute and Soroush Rafiei made it 2-0 in the 56th minute with a bicycle kick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier in the day, Nassaji edged past Fajr Sepasi 1-0 thanks to Karim Eslami\u2019s first half goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paykan were held to a goalless draw against Naft Masjed Soleyman in Tehran and Padideh and Aluminum played out a goalless draw in Mashhad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday, Esteghlal will play Havadar in Tehran, Gol Gohar host Tractor in Sirjan and Sanat Naft play Zob Ahan in Abadan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis will also meet Foolad on Friday in Ahvaz.<\/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=EF_RUmKi0-k\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=VY39wfhFDyY\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=VRYVwzfcdG8\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; ISFAHAN, Sepahan defeated Mes Rafsanjan 2-0 in Matchday 1 of the 2021\/22 Iran&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":43907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,165,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persian-gulf-pro-league","category-sepahan"],"views":925,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43906","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=43906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43908,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43906\/revisions\/43908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}