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The 11th week of the Iranian Premier League was not a typical one, this week had few upsets associated with it. This week, Peykan (Tehran) and Foolad (Ahvaz), two teams who have been doing well in the charts suffered devastating losses.
On the 31st of January, 3 games took place. In the Pas- Peykan game, the game was everything but what was predicted before. Pas came off a bad tie against Aboo-Moslem to play Peykan, who has been impressive this year. Pas, midfielder, Mohammad Nosrati was the first to score, in the 20th minute of the game. Then Khodadad Azizi made it a 2-0 lead when he scored in the 35th minute of the game. The first half ended 2-0 for Pas. Then in the second half Peykan came out attacking and managed to score one goal to make it 2-1. Mohammad Reza Tahmasebi, scored this goal in the 52nd minute of the game. But Pas wouldn't let this game get away from them, Mohsen Garousi scored a goal in the 81st minute to bring Pas's lead back up to 2 goals. Then Haghipour closed the deal in the 89th minute to give Pas a 4-1 win.
Persepolis visited rasht to play against Esteghlal of Rasht. Behrouz Rahbarifar scored in the 17th minute on a free kick. Then persepolis striker, Reza Jabbari added 2 more goals in the 24 and 31st to make the lead 3-0. Esteghlal-Rasht started gaining control fo the game towards the 35th minute, and they scored in the 37th. Rahmat Fezimoghadam was the goal scorer. But despite their numerous attacks on Perspeolis's goal, they were not able to get back into the game, and the game ended 3-1 for Persepolis.
Saipa (tehran) got their second win in an upset agaisnt Foolad (Ahvaz), the game ended 1-0 for Saipa, with javad kazemian scoring the single goal in the 10th minute.

On the next day of this Week's games, 3 mroe games took place.

Traktorsazi (Tabriz) drawed at home against Fajr Sepasi(shiraz). The game ended 0-0.

Bargh(Shiraz) won their 3rd game in the league against Malavan (Bandar Anzali). The game took place in Shiraz and the goalscorers for Bargh were Mohammad Matori and Mehravasian.

In the Esfehan Derby, Sepahan proved to be the better side, winning 2-0 against Zobahan. The two strikers for the team, Edmond Bezik and Leonard Estepanian were impressive and each scored a goal.

The Aboo-Moslem vs. Esteghlal game was postponed due to Esteghlal's upcoming games for Asian Club Championships. The game will be played in Tehran on February 14th.

Kambiz M

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