According to ILNA, in the continuation of week ten of the Premier League football, the Persepolis and Foolad Khuzestan football teams faced each other at 16:45 today (Sunday) at the Shohada-ye Shahr-e Qods Stadium, and the match ended in a one-nil victory for the Foolad Khuzestan team.
Persepolis had the ball and the field for most of this match, but its goal was opened in the 87th minute by Vahid Amiri, a former Reds player, so that Foolad reached the winning goal in the minutes for which Hamid Motahari had planned. Foolad's current head coach, who has a record of coaching at Persepolis, had also spoken in yesterday's press conference about his team's plan for the closing minutes and had named those minutes 'Foolad Time'!
Mehdi Tartar's charges lost this home match against their Khuzestani opponents while, given Esteghlal's draw yesterday, they had the chance to increase their gap with the rivals at the top of the table, but this golden opportunity slipped away for the Reds. Persepolis is top of the table with 20 points, only on better goal difference than Tractor and Esteghlal. Foolad is also in fifth place in the table with 19 points.
Lineup of Persepolis: Payam Niazmand, Mohammad Hossein Kananizadegan, Danial Iri, Mehdi Tikdari (67-Igor Sergeyev), Ali Alipour, Mohammad Mehdi Mohebi, Majid Eidi, Pouria Shahrabi (46-Abolfazl Jalali), Thievy Bifouma (67-Mohammad Hossein Sadeghi), Pouya Pourali and Mohammad Khodabandelou (22 - Pouria Latififar).
Lineup of Foolad: Hamed Lak, Abolfazl Razaghpour, Sasan Ansari, Amin Saedi, Omid Hamidifar (86-Milad Badragheh), Ehsan Mahroughi (79-Abolfazl Zadeh Attar), Farshad Ahmadzadeh (56-Yousef Mazraeh), Vahid Amiri, Arman Akvan, Ghasem Latifi (79-Mohammadreza Keshavarzi) and Arash Akbarzadeh (86-Arshia Bagheri).
Referee: Amir Arab-Baraghi
Caution: Pouria Shahrabi of Persepolis
Source: ILNA
