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Persepolis - Esteghlal 1-5 (1-2)

PERSEPOLIS:
Starting five - (1) Reza NASERI, (6) Saeed ABDOLLAHNEJADIAN (cap.), (11) Amir HANIFI, (17) Jalal JABBARI, (24) Majid RAEESI
Substitutions: (2) Mohsen KHEIRI, (5) Hasan DONYAYI, (12) Saeed SHOURESHI, (13) Amir AMIRBEIGI, (20) Reza FALLAHZADEH, Hosein MAHDAVINIA, Hamidreza AZODI
Coach: Jafar SAEEDI

ESTEGHLAL:
Starting five: (1) Kazem SADEGHI, (7) Mohammad VAZIRZADEH, (8) Majid MOLAZEM (C), (9) Gholamhosein PILTAN, (10) Mohammad HASHEMZADEH
Substitutions: (11) Majid TIKDARI, (5) VAGHEFIMANESH, Ayoub ASGHARKHANI
Coach: Reza SADEGHPOUR

Scorers:

07' Piltan (0-1)
13' Abdollahnejadian (1-1)
20' Tikdari (1-2)
28' Vazirzadeh (1-3)
36' Hashemzadeh (1-4)
40' Sadeghi (penalty) (1-5)

First Referee: Manouchehr Nazari
Second Referee: Nematollah Karimi
Third Referee: Amir Hosein Fattahi

Yellow Cards: 12' Shoureshi (PER), 37' Raeesi (PER), 38' Kheiri (PER), 39' Piltan (EST)

Red Card: 40' Naseri (PER)



Article by our collaborator Mahdiar Ghaffari.

ESTEGHLAL WON THE TEHRAN DERBY

Blue boys of Tehran beated their old rival by 5 goals in the Azadi 12,000 seats hall. Esteghlal & Persepolis, that are the most ancient rivals of the country in outdoor football, faced each other in the 8th round of Iranian futsal super league on today afternoon.
Esteghlal, which have lost 3 of their best and famous players of last season (Shamsaee, Heidarian and Naseri) played a great mach especially in defence and quick attacks, and by assist of their superstar and captain Majid Molazem destroyed the Reds of Tehran with five wonderful goals, however the national goalkeeper of Persepolis saved more than 10 goals by his fantastic reflexes. This national goalkeeper, who has won the"Best Goalkeeper of Asia" title last month, made the most historical transfer of Iranian league by leaving Esteghlal to join Persepolis at the beginning of this season. Therefore, Naseri's substitute in national team, Kazem Sadeghi came to Esteghlal when his former club Persepolis signed the best goalkeeper of Asia! It was a great day for Sadeghi who was the main reason of Naseri's sent off in the last minute, when Naseri who had left the goal for helping his teammates to score didn't find any way except stopping Sadeghi's shot by hands out of area. And finally Kazem Sadeghi celebrated the 5th goal by penalty.
The match started with Reds' attacks, but Esteghlal was very strong in defence. A long pass by Molazem let the new version of Shamsaee, Piltan, scoring the 1st goal very easily. Later Naseri and Sadeghi saved many goals, till Abdollahnejadian opened the Blues' goal by a good shot and made Persepolis fans happy. But it was only 5 seconds to the end that Tikdari used the rebound of Hashemzadeh's attack and scored the 2nd goal for Es-Es club. In the second half, Persepolis swapped his Captain Abdollahnejadian by Fallahzadeh who his mistake let Vazirzadeh to score the 3rd goal of the Blues. Persepolis showed very weak in defence and it was only Naseri who resisted in Esteghlal's attack. The strange thing about Esteghlal was that only 7 men played for the team in this match! Anyway it was a very good result for Reza Sadeghpour, and his team stand at the 4th row of the table.
In the other matches, that were held on Thursday, Shahrdari Tonekabon finally gained their 1st point after 7 defeats, and Pas continued on their leadership after a close 4-3 win against Shahid Mansouri.


8th round

13-14/5/2004

Chini Hamgam - Eram Kish 7-7
Shahrdari Tonekabon - Shahrvand Sari 3-3
Rahahan - Pegah 3-2
Sadra - Shensa 2-6
Pas - Shahid Mansouri 4-3
Persepolis - Esteghlal 1-5


All the photos you can see in this page are kindly provided by the author Farshad Abbasi and the web site www.persianleague.com

Below:
- Photo 1: Piltanis celebrating the the Vazirzadeh goal, Naseri and Fallahzadeh are desperate.
- Photo 2: Tikdari is scoring the second goal for Esteghlal