{"id":53094,"date":"2025-04-05T13:01:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T20:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=53094"},"modified":"2025-04-05T13:01:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T20:01:40","slug":"persepolis-held-by-esteghlal-khuzestan-pgpl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2025\/04\/05\/persepolis-held-by-esteghlal-khuzestan-pgpl\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis held by Esteghlal Khuzestan: PGPL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TT &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis football team suffered a major setback in their hunt for the 2024\/25 Iran Persian Gulf Professional League (PGPL) title after being held by Esteghlal Khuzestan on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium, the Reds were held to a goalless draw by Esteghlal Khuzestan and almost miss the chance of defending title.<\/p>\n<p>In Arak, Sepahan and Aluminum shared the spoils in a 1-1 draw.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Karimi scored for Sepahan in the 90th minute from the penalty spot and Amin Kazemian leveled the score in the dying moments of the match.<\/p>\n<p>Rock-bottom Havadar defeated Malavan 2-0 in Tehran and Mes were held to a goalless draw by Nassaji in Rafsanjan.<\/p>\n<p>Tractor lead the table with 54 points and one game in hand, followed by Sepahan and Persepolis with 50 and 48 points, respectively.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TT &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis football team suffered a major setback in their hunt for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34468,"featured_media":53095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,172,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","category-persepolis","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":1819,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53094","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\/34468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53096,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53094\/revisions\/53096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}