{"id":51058,"date":"2024-04-19T20:04:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T03:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=51058"},"modified":"2024-04-19T20:04:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T03:04:56","slug":"pgpl-esteghlal-edge-shams-azar-to-go-top-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2024\/04\/19\/pgpl-esteghlal-edge-shams-azar-to-go-top-video\/","title":{"rendered":"PGPL: Esteghlal edge Shams Azar to go top [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal football team defeated Shams Azar 3-2 here on Friday to move top of the 2023\/24 Iran\u2019s Persian Gulf Pro League (PGPL), one points ahead of their archrivals Persepolis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mehrdad Mohammadi opened the scoring for the Blues in the 20th minute and made it 2-0 from the penalty spot five minutes into the second half. Amirhossein Moradmand scored Esteghlal\u2019s third goal at the Azadi Stadium with a header in the 76th minute.<\/p>\n<p>With seven minutes remaining, Shams Azar forward Faraz Emamali pulled a goal back and substitute Mojtaba Fakhrian made it 2-0 two minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Shams Azar put Esteghlal under pressure to level the score but the match finished 3-2.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, struggling Nassaji edged past Tractor 1-0 in Ghaemshahr and Foolad lost to Mes 1-0 in Ahvaz.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal lead the table with 53 points, one point above Persepolis.Sepahan are third with 42 points.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u062e\u0644\u0627\u0635\u0647 \u0628\u0627\u0632\u06cc \u062c\u0630\u0627\u0628 \u0648\u062a\u0645\u0627\u0634\u0627\u06cc\u06cc \u0627\u0633\u062a\u0642\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u0648 \u0634\u0645\u0633 \u0622\u0630\u0631\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fm2vG6fg8kY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal football team defeated Shams Azar 3-2 here on Friday to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":51059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,84,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":409,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51058","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=51058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51060,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51058\/revisions\/51060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}