{"id":42426,"date":"2021-05-18T09:39:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T16:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=42426"},"modified":"2021-05-18T09:39:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T16:39:15","slug":"hazfi-cup-esteghlal-face-zob-ahan-in-must-win-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/05\/18\/hazfi-cup-esteghlal-face-zob-ahan-in-must-win-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Hazfi Cup: Esteghlal face Zob Ahan in must-win game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal football team will host Zob Ahan in Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup Round of 16 on Wednesday. The match will be held 10 days after the Blues suffered a 2-0 home loss to Zob Ahan in Iran Professional League.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal also lost to archrivals Persepolis 1-0 on Friday and the match against Zob Ahan is a must-win game for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, Zob Ahan are struggling to escape the relegation zone and winning Hazfi Cup title means that they can book a place in the next season\u2019s AFC Champions League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal have defeated Zob Ahan three times in Hazfi Cup and lost two times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The match will be held in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup was founded in 1975 and Esteghlal are the most successful club with seven titles, followed by Persepolis who have won six titles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Draw in full<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>*Zob Ahan v Esteghlal<br \/>*Persepolis v Shahin Bandar Ameri<br \/>*Tractor v Aluminum<br \/>* Khooshe Talaei v Sepahan<br \/>*Gol Gohar v Pars Jonoubi<br \/>*Qashqai v Foolad<br \/>*Nassaji v Malavan<br \/>*Kheybar Khorramabad v Sanat Naft<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal football team will host Zob Ahan in Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":42427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,84,136,135,87,176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division","category-irans-hazfi-cup","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup","category-zob-ahan"],"views":403,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42426","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=42426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42428,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42426\/revisions\/42428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}