{"id":17081,"date":"2014-01-21T12:57:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T20:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=17081"},"modified":"2014-01-21T12:57:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T20:57:40","slug":"esteghlal-marches-into-hazfi-cup-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/01\/21\/esteghlal-marches-into-hazfi-cup-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal marches into Hazfi Cup semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal football team progressed to the Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup semi-final on Tuesday by beating Zob Ahan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the 43rd minute, Esteghlal defender Hanif Omranzadeh was brought down in the penalty area and Jlloyd Samuel scored the only goal of the match from the penalty spot.<\/p>\n<p>With two minutes remaining, referee Alireza Faghani sowed the Esteghlal penalty spot but Ghasem Haddadifar failed to equalize the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am satisfied with the win. Zob Ahan put us under pressure in the second half but they could not score,\u201d Amir Ghalenoei said in the post match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal will play Mes of Kerman in the Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Tractor Sazi defeated Rah Ahan 2-0 thanks to goals from Saeid Daghighi and Karim Ansarifard.<\/p>\n<p>Tractor will play winner of Foolad and Persepolis in the semis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal football team progressed to the Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup semi-final on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":15835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":2585,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17081","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=17081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}