{"id":12592,"date":"2011-11-28T19:07:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T03:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/11\/28\/tehran-reds-meet-blues-in-hazfi-quarters\/"},"modified":"2011-11-28T19:07:52","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T03:07:52","slug":"tehran-reds-meet-blues-in-hazfi-quarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/11\/28\/tehran-reds-meet-blues-in-hazfi-quarters\/","title":{"rendered":"Tehran Reds meet Blues in Hazfi quarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"Esteghlal_Logo_New\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Esteghlal_Logo_New.jpg\" height=\"315\" width=\"303\" \/>PTV &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal has edged past Saipa Mehr Karaj 1-0 in Iran&#8217;s Hazfi Cup at Azadi Stadium to set up an intriguing 73rd Tehran derby against Persepolis in the quarterfinals.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Second-division Saipa Mehr came tantalizingly close to creating a major upset in the tournament, after they managed to keep the premier league leaders at bay for the entire 90 minutes and extend the game into extra time. <\/p>\n<p>The second-division club, however, finally succumbed to Esteghlal pressure in the 105th minute of the game after Saipa Mehr defender Ali Ahamdi inadvertently put the ball into his own net following a cross by Esteghlal player Javad Shirzad. <\/p>\n<p>Saipa Mehr Karaj was also reduced to ten men after Rouhollah Nemati received his second yellow card of the day in the 112th minute, Fars News Agency reported on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlaying against unknown teams is always very difficult. They (Saipa Mehr) had created a multilayered defense against our offensive line,\u201d Esteghlal Coach Parviz Mazloumi said after the game. <\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal will now have to line up against Persepolis in the quarterfinals. The Reds defeated Zob Ahan 3-2 at Isfahan&#8217;s Fouladshahr stadium on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>In the other quarterfinal games Foulad Khouzestan meets Shahrdari Yasouj, Damash Gilan faces Shahin Bushehr and Saba Qom locks horns with Mes Kerman. <\/p>\n<p>The Hazfi Cup is a knockout cup competition run by the Iranian Football Federation. One of Iran&#8217;s Asian Football Confederation Champions League spots is up for grabs for the Hazfi Cup champions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTV &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal has edged past Saipa Mehr Karaj 1-0 in Iran&#8217;s Hazfi Cup&#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-12592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":4620,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12592","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\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}