{"id":48814,"date":"2023-04-23T09:50:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T16:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=48814"},"modified":"2023-04-23T09:50:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T16:50:23","slug":"ipl-persepolis-edge-esteghlal-in-100th-tehran-derby-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2023\/04\/23\/ipl-persepolis-edge-esteghlal-in-100th-tehran-derby-video\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL: Persepolis edge Esteghlal in 100th Tehran derby [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis football team edged past Esteghlal 1-0 in Iran Professional League (IPL) Matchday 27 here at the Azadi Stadium.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two teams showed a lackluster performance in front of about 40,000 spectators in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis became more attacking after halftime and Isa Alekasir, who came off the bench after the break, scored the winner in the 50th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal put their archrivals under pressure to level the score but were denied by a solid defensive display by Persepolis.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis moved top of the table with 57 points, two points above Esteghlal.<\/p>\n<p>Sepahan sits third with 55 points and one game in hand.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal and Persepolis have met each other 100 times. Both teams have won 26 matches each and 48 matches ended in a draw.<\/p>\n<p>The two teams have a long-standing history of intense competition that stretches back to the first derby match in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>Tractor Sazi also defeated Paykan 1-0 in Tabriz.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Sepahan will host Malavan in Isfahan, Aluminum play Zob Ahan in Arak, Mes Rafsanjan meet Mes Kerman in Rafsanjan and Foolad host relegation-threatened Naft Masjed Soleyman in Ahvaz.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uQo0Mnwkvv8\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uQo0Mnwkvv8<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis football team edged past Esteghlal 1-0 in Iran Professional League&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":48815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,84,164,136,172,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48814","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"],"views":1080,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48814","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=48814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48816,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48814\/revisions\/48816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}