{"id":23397,"date":"2015-11-24T13:44:28","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T21:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=23397"},"modified":"2015-11-24T13:47:53","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T21:47:53","slug":"zob-ahan-beats-sepahan-to-advance-to-hazfi-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/11\/24\/zob-ahan-beats-sepahan-to-advance-to-hazfi-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Zob Ahan beats Sepahan to advance to Hazfi Cup Final [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Zob Ahan football team defeated Sepahan in penalty shootout on Tuesday and booked a place at the Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup final match.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"story\">\n<p>In the match held at the Foolad Shahr Stadium in Isfahan, two teams finished 2-2 after the extra time, and the game went to a penalty shootout.<\/p>\n<p>Just two minutes into the match, Zob Ahan striker Morteza Tabrizi found the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p>Vouria Ghafouri equalized the match in the 52nd minute.<\/p>\n<p>Sepahan was reduced to 10-man in the 85th minute after referee Mohsen Torki showed Milad Sarlak his second yellow card for handball.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Reza Hosseini gave Zob Ahan a lead in the 110th minute but Ghafouri scored again three minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>In penalty shootout, holder Zob Ahan beat Sepahan 4-1 and qualified for the final match.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal will play Naft Tehran on Wednesday in the semi-final.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6jDZCAlAgt0\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6jDZCAlAgt0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Zob Ahan football team defeated Sepahan in penalty shootout on Tuesday and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":1713,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23397","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}