{"id":18932,"date":"2014-07-31T12:40:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T19:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=18932"},"modified":"2014-07-31T12:55:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T19:55:57","slug":"tractor-sazi-defeat-champions-foolad-on-pgl-opening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/07\/31\/tractor-sazi-defeat-champions-foolad-on-pgl-opening-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Tractor Sazi defeat champions Foolad on PGL opening day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Cup winners Tractor Sazi Tabriz defeated reigning league champions Foolad Khuzestan 2-1 in the 2014\/15 Persian Gulf League opener on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tractor took the lead in first half of what could well have been an Iranian Super Cup final through 23-year-old striker Saman Nariman Jahan, who had joined Rasoul Khatibi&#8217;s team from Gostaresh Foolad this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Foolad&#8217;s new Croatian defender Leonard Mesaric equalized nine minutes from time for Dragan Skocic&#8217;s team, but another summer transfer gem, Edinho, scored a stunning winner for the homeside.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Rah Ahan was unable to capitalize on Ramin Rezaeian&#8217;s first half goal, as Amir Ghalenoei&#8217;s Esteghlal Tehran eventually won 2-1 thanks to goals from returned Iraqi midfielder Karrar Jasseem and Mohammad Ghazi.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Thursday, Saba Qom celebrated a 2-1 victory over Zob Ahan. Ayoub Kalantari and Cameroon-born striker Ambuno Achille scored for Saba while Morteza Tabrizi had equalized for Zob Ahan.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, round 1 will conclude with five matches, with Persepolis Tehran&#8217;s derby versus Naft being the highlight besides evergreen Sepahan&#8217;s clash versus big spenders Paykan FC, who celebrated their return from Qazvin to Tehran with some big transfers, including Mehdi Rahmati, Jloyd Samuel, Mohammad Nosrati and Saeid Daghighi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball.com &#8211; TEHRAN, Cup winners Tractor Sazi Tabriz defeated reigning league champions Foolad Khuzestan 2-1&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":13554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":4753,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18932","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=18932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}