{"id":14439,"date":"2013-05-05T11:39:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T18:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=14439"},"modified":"2013-05-05T14:28:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T21:28:13","slug":"sepahan-wins-irans-hazfi-cup-in-penalty-shootout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/05\/05\/sepahan-wins-irans-hazfi-cup-in-penalty-shootout\/","title":{"rendered":"Sepahan wins Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup in penalty shootout [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Sepahan defeated Persepolis in Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup at Tehran\u2019s packed Azadi Stadium on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The game went to penalties after extra-time finished on 2-2, and Sepahan beat Persepolis 4-2 in the penalty shootout.<\/p>\n<p>The two teams finished 1-1 in regular time. Persepolis striker Karim Ansarifard was on target in the 24th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis defender Hossein Mahini\u2019s blunder allowed Xhevahir Sukaj equalized the match in the 59th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Noori put Persepolis ahead in the 99th minute but Mohammad Gholami scored for Sepahan in the 106th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Sepahan won Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup for the fourth time through its triumph over Persepolis in the penalty shootout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were under pressure in this match, but I am happy because we deserved a title in Iranian football after we lost the IPL title to Esteghlal,\u201d Sepahan coach Zlatko Kranjcar said in the post-match press conference.<\/p>\n<p>In a surprise move, Sepahan General Manger Alireza Rahimi resigned after the match.<\/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=7ostYuSf-p0\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7ostYuSf-p0<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Sepahan defeated Persepolis in Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup at Tehran\u2019s packed Azadi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":13959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":4172,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14439","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=14439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}