{"id":13775,"date":"2013-02-13T11:45:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T19:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=13775"},"modified":"2013-02-14T01:09:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T09:09:10","slug":"persepolis-fights-back-to-defeat-valiant-gahar-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/02\/13\/persepolis-fights-back-to-defeat-valiant-gahar-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis fights back to defeat valiant Gahar [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis football team earned a hard-fought 3-2 victory in Iran Professional League (IPL) over valiant Gahar on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The match was initially scheduled to be played on January 4 but was called off due to air pollution in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Gholamreza Rezaei gave Persepolis a lead in the 18th minute but Gahar\u2019s Hamed Pour-omrani canceled out his goal just two minutes after the break.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/pp-6th.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13779\" alt=\"pp-6th\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/pp-6th.png\" width=\"273\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/pp-6th.png 273w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/pp-6th-101x100.png 101w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Majid Khamis silenced the Persepolis\u2019s fans, scoring an astonishing goal in the 56th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis controlled the match afterward and substitute Hadi Norouzi found the back of the net in the 69th minute with a header.<\/p>\n<p>Marko Perovic, who also came off the bench in the 80th minute, scored a goal from long distance in the 90th minute.<\/p>\n<p>In the added time, Persepolis striker Norouzi was brought down in the penalty area by Gahar defender but Hossein Mahini failed to convert a penalty kick.<\/p>\n<p>In the post-match news conference, Gahar coach Mohammad Mayeli-kohan criticized referee Saeid Bakhshizadeh for being &#8216;pro-Persepolis&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Mayeli-kohan said, \u201cI am so sorry for the football because the referee was against us. He behaved gently with the Persepolis players and showed so many cards to our players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am disappointed with his performance but I am satisfied with the way my boys played,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis moved up to sixth place, 14 points adrift of the top of the table.<\/p>\n<p>Below come the goals from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pfdctv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>PFDC TV<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=83F7nv-rlgA\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=83F7nv-rlgA<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis football team earned a hard-fought 3-2 victory in Iran Professional&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":2863,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13775","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=13775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}