{"id":26660,"date":"2016-12-10T10:34:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T18:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26660"},"modified":"2016-12-10T11:00:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T19:00:34","slug":"tractor-sazi-stuns-esteghlal-to-move-top-sepahan-thrashes-saba-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/12\/10\/tractor-sazi-stuns-esteghlal-to-move-top-sepahan-thrashes-saba-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Tractor Sazi stuns Esteghlal to move top, Sepahan thrashes Saba [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Tractor Sazi football team came from behind to beat Esteghlal 2-1 in the 13th week of Iran Professional League in front of more than 40,000 fans at Tehran\u2019s Azadi stadium on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal took the lead in the 7th minute when Tractor Sazi goalkeeper Mohammad Reza Akhbari made a crucial mistake and gifted the ball to Esteghlal\u2019s Kaveh Rezaei who slotted it into the empty net. <\/p>\n<p>But former Esteghlal striker Farzad Hatami was the hero for Tractor Sazi as he scored twice, sealing comeback and three points.<\/p>\n<p>Hatami first scored in the 56th with a powerful close range header to level the score. Twelve minutes later he scored the second goal from the six yard box to give Tractor Sazi three vital points.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in Mashhad, Persepolis was scheduled to play against Padideh but the game was called off due to bad weather condition. The match will kick off on Saturday 14:00 local time.<\/p>\n<p>In Isfahan, Sepahan, who earned just two points from the last three games, thrashed Saba Qom 4-1 to end the miserable run. Mehrdad Mohammadi (twice), Hossein Papi and Jalaleddin Alimohammadi scored for the host while Ghasem Dehnavi scored the sole goal of Saba from the penalty spot.<\/p>\n<p>In the other games, Paykan edged past Siah Jamegan 1-0 and Foolad beat Esteghlal Khuzestan with the same score thanks to Sasan Ansari.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Thursday, Zob Ahan defeated struggling Machine Sazi 2-1, Sanat Naft suffered a 1-0 loss against Saipa at home and Naft Tehran and Gostaresh Foolad match finished a 1-1 draw.<\/p>\n<p>Tractor Sazi is currently at the top with 27 points from 13 games while Persepolis is second with a game in hand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Esteghlal 1:2 Tractor Sazi<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RmjnSvy210k\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RmjnSvy210k<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sepahan 4:1 Saba Qom<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6wyGBBAL3mo\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6wyGBBAL3mo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Machine Sazi 1:2 Zob Ahan<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ctmesYbqsCM\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ctmesYbqsCM<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sanat Naft 0:1 Saipa<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T3kYDjqnWZY\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T3kYDjqnWZY<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Naft Tehran 1:1 Gostaresh Foolad<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sJg-ta1XVX8\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sJg-ta1XVX8<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Tractor Sazi football team came from behind to beat Esteghlal 2-1&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":26661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":2954,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26660","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}