Esteghlal’s big step to win the championship with a draw in the controversial derby/Perspolis was not enough in the last moments

According to the sports reporter of Fars news agency, the teams of Persepolis and Esteghlal met at 14:30 today in the derby of hopes of the capital, which was held in the framework of the matches of the 27th week of the Tehran Premier League, and this match ended with a 2-2 draw. .

Persepolis goals were scored by Ali Babaei (77) and Reza Falahatnejad (83) for Mahmoud Ansari’s students. Ehsan Eskandari (89) and Mehdi Farajpour (90) also scored for Esteghlal.

Arash Berhani’s students, who could have won this derby with 62 points and confirmed their championship in this season’s Omidhai Tehran Premier League, got 60 points with this draw and need to win one of their last 3 games to win the championship.

The second ranked Persepolis also lost the win in the final moments and got 52 points and could not reduce the gap of 8 points with the traditional rival at the top of the table so that it has a small chance of winning the championship.

At the end of the second half and after the decision was announced in favor of Esteghlal, there was a verbal conflict between the benches of this team and the opposing players. At this moment, one of Esteghlal’s coaches entered the field to fight with the player in red, which ended well with the intervention of the agents of the two teams and the officials of the match.

Esteghlal players rejoiced in the middle of the field after this valuable draw and threw Arash Burhani into the sky.

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