{"id":40146,"date":"2020-08-26T16:48:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T23:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=40146"},"modified":"2020-08-26T16:48:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T23:48:30","slug":"hazfi-cup-esteghlal-beat-persepolis-to-advance-to-final-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/08\/26\/hazfi-cup-esteghlal-beat-persepolis-to-advance-to-final-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Hazfi Cup: Esteghlal beat Persepolis to advance to final [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal emerged victorious in Tehran derby against Persepolis in Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup semifinal on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal beat their archrivals on penalties 4-1 after a 2-2 draw in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal forward Mehdi Ghaedi scored just four minutes into the match bur Bashar Rasan levelled the score in the 49 minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With two minutes remaining, Persepolis forward Ali Alipour powered the ball beyond Esteghlal goalie Hossein Hosseini from inside the area but Esteghlal defender Mohammad Daneshgar equalized the match with a header in the injury time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, Tractor had defeated Naft Masjed Soleyman and booked a place in the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final match will be held on Sept. 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal are the most successful club in Hazfi Cup with seven titles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZNAJ6zg3XNQ\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal emerged victorious in Tehran derby against Persepolis in Iran\u2019s Hazfi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":40147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,84,135,172,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-irans-hazfi-cup","category-persepolis","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":794,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40146","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=40146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40148,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40146\/revisions\/40148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}