Persepolis Defeated by Former Teammates in 'Foolad Time'

Tasnim: The Persepolis football team lost its Week 10 match against Foolad Khuzestan.

In the continuation of Week 10 of the football Premier League, the Persepolis and Foolad Khuzestan football teams faced each other at 16:45 today (Sunday) at Shohadaye Shahr-e Qods Stadium, and this match ended with a 1-0 victory for the Foolad Khuzestan team.

Persepolis had the ball and the field for most of the minutes of this match, but its goal was opened in the 87th minute by Vahid Amiri, a former player of the Reds, so that Foolad reached the winning goal in the minutes that Hamid Motahari had planned for. Foolad's current head coach, who has coaching experience at Persepolis on his record, had also spoken in yesterday's press conference about his team's plan for the final minutes and had named these minutes 'Foolad Time'!

Mehdi Tartar's charges lost this home match against their Khuzestani opponent while, given Esteghlal's draw yesterday, they had the opportunity to increase their lead over their rivals at the top of the table, but this golden opportunity was lost for the Reds. Persepolis, with 20 points and only due to a better goal difference than Tractor and Esteghlal, is at the top of the table. Foolad is also in fifth place in the table with 19 points.

Persepolis lineup: Payam Niazmand, Mohammad Hossein Kananizadegan, Danial Iri, Mehdi Tikdari (67-Igor Sergeyev), Ali Alipour, Mohammad Mahdi Mohebi, Majid Eydi, Pouria Shahrabadi (46-Abolfazl Jalali), Thievy Bifouma (67-Mohammad Hossein Sadeghi), Pouya Pourali and Mohammad Khodabandelou (22-Pouria Latififar).

Foolad lineup: Hamed Lak, Abolfazl Razzaghpour, Sasan Ansari, Amin Saedi, Omid Hamedifar (86-Milad Badragheh), Ehsan Mahroughi (79-Abolfazl Zadeh Attar), Farshad Ahmadzadeh (56-Yousef Mazraeh), Vahid Amiri, Arman Akvan, Ghasem Latifi (79-Mohammad Reza Keshavarzi) and Arash Akbarzadeh (86-Arshia Bagheri).

Referee: Amir Arab-Boraghi

Caution: Pouria Shahrabadi of Persepolis