PLDC - Esteghlal Tehran faced Peykan
Tehran at Takhti stadium in the 8th week of the Iranian Professional
League and defeated them with the score of 2-1. Esteghlal now has 14
points and is in third place in the league table. Peykan is still at the
bottom of the league table with only two scored goals after 8 matches.
The first goal of the match was the handiwork of Mehdi Hasheminasab of
Esteghlal, who headed it into the net on a corner pass in the 7th minute.
Samereh came close to scoring in the 12th minute of the match and several
times after that. Vahedi Nikbakht headed the ball into the net on a pass
from Akbarpour in the 73th minute to give Esteghlal their second goal.
Amir Houshang Sharifi scored the second goal of the season for Peykan in
the 47th minute of the match. Esteghlal’s defence line was not as strong
as the first half and it allowed Peykan to almost get through and score
several times in the second half. Hossein Memar of Peykan got a yellow
card for his foul on Momenzadeh in the 63rd minute of the match. The foul
by an
Esteghlal defender on Amin Mohtashami of Peykan in the Esteghlal goalmouth
area in the 89th minute became a penalty. Davoud Haghdoost of Peykan shot
the penalty wide to disappoint his team. The match ended after three
minutes of injury time.
This was a very exciting and motivated match, which was played on a very
rough pitch which took away all the energy of both sides and was condemned
by the head coach of Esteghlal, Ronald Koch. A full ninety minutes of
action and attacks and counters was well played and fairly refereed.
