{"id":11653,"date":"2010-11-13T11:26:21","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T19:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/11\/13\/esteghlal-defeats-shahin-bushehr-2-1\/"},"modified":"2010-11-13T11:26:21","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T19:26:21","slug":"esteghlal-defeats-shahin-bushehr-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/11\/13\/esteghlal-defeats-shahin-bushehr-2-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal defeats Shahin Bushehr 2-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"Esteghlal_Logo_New\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Esteghlal_Logo_New.jpg\" height=\"370\" width=\"356\" \/>PTV &#8211; TEHRAN, Farzad Ashoubi has  scored twice from the penalty spot to help Esteghlal defeat Shahin  Bushehr 2-1 and move to second place in the Iranian Premier League.<span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\"> <\/p>\n<p>Ashoubi scored the opener in the 36th minute from the penalty spot at the Azadi Stadium on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Five minutes later Ashoubi doubled the advantage for the Blues from the same spot. <\/p>\n<p>Iman Heidari narrowed the gap to just one goal in the 64th minute. <\/p>\n<p>Like many other Estghlal games this season, however, controversy surrounded the referee&#8217;s decisions. <\/p>\n<p>Reza Ghyathi, a veteran referee, told IRNA that match official Saeed Bakhshizadeh had made numerous mistakes. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the first penalty decision, no foul was committed on Omid  Ravankhah and the referee should not have awarded the penalty to the  Blues,&#8221; Ghyathi said. <\/p>\n<p>The expert went on to add that Bakhshizadeh failed to point to the  penalty spot when a Shahin striker suffered a foul inside Esteghlal&#8217;s  18-yard box. <\/p>\n<p>Commenting on Estghlal&#8217;s second penalty, Ghyathi said, &#8220;Farhad Majidi  was fouled on outside the 18-yard-box and the match official should not  have awarded a second penalty to Esteghlal.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a veteran referee I apologize to Shahin Bushehr&#8217;s fans on behalf of Bakhshizadeh,&#8221; IRNA quoted Ghyathi as saying on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>This is while head of the Iranian Football Federation Referee  Committee had earlier denied claims that Iranian match officials have a  tendency to officiate in favor of Esteghlal. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our match officials are not small individuals [to take sides],&#8221; Masuod Enayat said in October. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTV &#8211; TEHRAN, Farzad Ashoubi has scored twice from the penalty spot to help Esteghlal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":4245,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}