{"id":16752,"date":"2013-12-29T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-29T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=16752"},"modified":"2013-12-29T11:56:26","modified_gmt":"2013-12-29T19:56:26","slug":"esteghlal-beats-10-man-malavan-in-irans-hazfi-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/12\/29\/esteghlal-beats-10-man-malavan-in-irans-hazfi-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal beats 10-man Malavan in Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal football team booked a place in the last eight of the Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup by defeating Malavan on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Blues defeated 10-man Malavan 2-0 in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium thanks to two goals from Hanif Omranzadeh.<\/p>\n<p>Omranzadeh found the back of the net in the 12th minute with a header. Malavan striker Jalal Rafkhaei was sent off in the 36th minute after receiving his second yellow card.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal created many chances in the second half but their strikers didn\u2019t take advantage of their opportunities. Omranzadeh scored his second goal in the 68th minute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am happy since Esteghlal played well, especially in the first half, however I believe that we should have scored more goals,\u201d Esteghlal coach Amir Ghalenoei said in the post match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Mes defeated Naft of Omidieh 2-1 and Naft of Masjed Soleyman lost to Tractor Sazi 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal will face Zob Ahan in the quarter-final and Mes play Sanat Naft.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis will also host Foolad and Rah Ahan meet Tractor Sazi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal football team booked a place in the last eight of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25049,"featured_media":15876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":3206,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16752","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\/25049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}