{"id":50820,"date":"2024-03-04T21:14:17","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T05:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=50820"},"modified":"2024-03-04T21:14:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T05:14:17","slug":"esteghlal-out-of-irans-hazfi-cup-persepolis-sepahan-victorious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2024\/03\/04\/esteghlal-out-of-irans-hazfi-cup-persepolis-sepahan-victorious\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal out of Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup, Persepolis, Sepahan victorious"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TT &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal football team, the most decorated team in Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup, were knocked out of the competition in the 2023\/24 edition after losing to Mes in Rafsanjan 2-0 on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The visiting team were awarded a penalty in the 12th minute but Mes goalkeeper Hamed Lak saved Saleh Hardani\u2019s strike at the Shohada Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>In the 25th minute, Mohammadmehdi Mohebbi found the back of the net and Muntadher Mohammed made it 2-0 in the 67th minute.<\/p>\n<p>In Tehran, Persepolis defeated first-tier Naft Gachsaran 3-0 at the Azadi Stadium and advanced to Round of 16,<\/p>\n<p>Mehdi Torabi opened the scoring in the 38th minute and Danial Esmaeilifar made the scoreboard 2-0 two minutes into the second half. Issa Alekasi scored the third goal in 55th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Sepahan also beat Shams Azar 3-0 courtesy of goals from Reza Asadi, Omid Noorafkan and Reza Shekari.<\/p>\n<p>Hazfi Cup is an Iranian knockout football cup competition held annually by the Football Federation of Iran.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TT &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal football team, the most decorated team in Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup, were&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34468,"featured_media":50821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,164,172,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esteghlal","category-ipl","category-persepolis","category-sepahan"],"views":785,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50820","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\/34468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50822,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50820\/revisions\/50822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}