{"id":12602,"date":"2011-12-09T20:32:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T04:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/12\/09\/esteghlal-trounces-persepolis-in-hazfi-cup\/"},"modified":"2011-12-09T20:32:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-10T04:32:29","slug":"esteghlal-trounces-persepolis-in-hazfi-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/12\/09\/esteghlal-trounces-persepolis-in-hazfi-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal trounces Persepolis in Hazfi Cup [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/cache\/multithumb_thumbs\/c_330_235_16777215_0___images_stories_dec01_10_13-1.jpg\" \/>TEHRANTIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The Esteghlal football team has crushed archrival Persepolis in a quarterfinal match of Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup Iran\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Esteghlal defeated Persepolis 3-0 for their fourth consecutive win in the Tehran derby in front of approximately 70,000 spectators at Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium on Friday.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">The two teams and the crowd observed one minute of silence in memory of veteran Iranian sports photographer Esmaeil Zarafshan, who died at the age of 83 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>After a goalless 90 minutes, the match headed into extra time. Prodigy Mojtaba Jabbari gave the Blues a lead in the 95th minute and he doubled Esteghlal\u2019s lead from the penalty spot after Esteghlal captain Farhad Majidi was brought down by Mamadou Tall in the 98th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Esmaeil Sharifat escaped the offside trap in the 107th minute and made it 3-0.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am proud of my players because of their good performance against Persepolis. I congratulate my men and our fans,\u201d Esteghlal coach Parviz Mazloumi said.<\/p>\n<p>Mojtaba Jabbari was selected as the best player of the match.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal will play the winner of the Shahrdari Yasuj-Foolad match in the semifinals of the Hazfi Cup.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PBmA5CYzd-o&#038;feature=youtube_gdata\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PBmA5CYzd-o&amp;feature=youtube_gdata<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRANTIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, The Esteghlal football team has crushed archrival Persepolis in a quarterfinal match&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22615,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":4851,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12602","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\/22615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}