{"id":48763,"date":"2023-04-14T12:52:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T19:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=48763"},"modified":"2023-04-14T12:52:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T19:52:47","slug":"ipl-persepolis-beat-mes-kerman-to-go-top-naft-ms-defeats-zob-ahan-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2023\/04\/14\/ipl-persepolis-beat-mes-kerman-to-go-top-naft-ms-defeats-zob-ahan-video\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL: Persepolis beat Mes Kerman to go top, Naft MS defeats Zob Ahan [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KERMAN, <strong>Persepolis football team kept the heat on Sepahan and Esteghlal in Iran Professional League (IPL) title race by beating Mes 3-1 in Kerman Friday night.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saeid Sadeghi opened the scoring for the visiting team in the 22nd minutes and Giorgi Gvelesiani made it 2-0 from the penalty spot four minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis defender Morteza Pouraliganji scored an own goal in the 63rd minute.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after, Mes put Persepolis under pressure and created several scoring chances but their strikers lacked cutting edge.<\/p>\n<p>Substitute Isa Alekasir was brought down in the penalty area and Gvelesiani converted the penalty in the 85th minute to make scoreboard 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>In Masjed Soleyman, relegation-threatened Naft edged past Zob Ahan 1-0 and Nassaji and Aluminum shared the spoils in a goalless draw in Ghaemshahr.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Esteghlal will host Havadar in Tehran and Sepahan meet Mes Rafsanjan in Isfahan.<\/p>\n<p>Malvan will face Tractor in Bandar Anzali and Gol Gohar play Foolad in Sirjan, while Paykan host struggling Sanat Naft.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis moved top of the table with 54 points, followed by Sepahan and Esteghlal on 52 points and one game in their hands.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=71k_pA4C-wU\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=71k_pA4C-wU<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KERMAN, Persepolis football team kept the heat on Sepahan and Esteghlal in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":48764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48763","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"],"views":681,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48763","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=48763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48765,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48763\/revisions\/48765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}