{"id":45286,"date":"2022-03-16T11:52:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T18:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=45286"},"modified":"2022-03-16T11:52:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T18:52:36","slug":"ipl-tehran-derby-a-title-decider%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/03\/16\/ipl-tehran-derby-a-title-decider%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL: Tehran derby, a title decider"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The Tehran derby may be the most important match in the entire careers of Persepolis coach Yahya Golmohammadi and Esteghlal trainer Farhad Majidi.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis sits second in Iran Professional League (IPL), six points behind leaders Esteghlal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A loss will cost the title for Persepolis and former Iran defender, Golmohammadi. On the other hand, Esteghlal could bring an end to their nine-year title drought with a win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Majidi will, without a shadow of a doubt, be a hero for the Blues\u2019 fans with a win over their archrivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With six weeks to spare, Esteghlal could win the title with a win in the match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis has won the IPL title in the past five seasons and looks to win that for the sixth time in a row. To lose against Esteghlal means they will have an impossible mission to make history and must try in the next season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The match will be held in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium and the fans can enter into the stadium after about two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal and Persepolis have played each other 97 times with Esteghlal narrowly leading the encounters by 26 wins to 25 with 46 draws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, The Tehran derby may be the most important match in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":45287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,173,84,164,136,172,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persepolis","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":796,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45286","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=45286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45289,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45286\/revisions\/45289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}