{"id":17236,"date":"2014-02-04T11:57:10","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T19:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=17236"},"modified":"2014-02-04T11:57:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T19:57:10","slug":"mes-tractor-reach-irans-hazfi-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/02\/04\/mes-tractor-reach-irans-hazfi-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Mes, Tractor reach Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal football team was knocked out of Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup by Mes of Kerman on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the match held in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium, Mes beat Esteghlal 2-1 at a snowy field in the semi-final round.<\/p>\n<p>Brazilian striker Edinho put the visitors ahead with a fine curling free kick just seven minutes into the match.<\/p>\n<p>Amirhossein Sadeghi found the back of the net with a header five minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>With five minutes remaining, Edinho completed his brace on a counter attack.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal coach Amir Ghalenoei accepted the blame after his team was beaten at home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s my fault we lost. I had to make changes in the second half. Our strikers missed their chances as well,\u201d Ghalenoei said in the post match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Tractor Sazi of Tabriz also edged past Foolad of Khuzestan and booked a place in the final.<\/p>\n<p>Saeid Daghighi headed the ball into the goal in the 76th minute. It was Tony Oliveira\u2019s first win in charge of Tractor Sazi.<\/p>\n<p>The final match will be held on February 14, however the officials have yet to decide the location of the match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal football team was knocked out of Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":15735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-irans-hazfi-cup"],"views":3774,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17236","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=17236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}