Tehran - Blue-clad men left the pitch
desperately as the first division squad was crushed out by Isfahan's Zob
Ahan with three goals at the eighth week of best club's opener Thursday.
The ten-men Zob's strikers Faraz Fatemi, Mohammad Mansouri and Sepehr
Heidari scored three goals in 6, 62 and 82th minutes.
Esteqlal's striker Ali Samerah scored blue-men's only goal ten minutes into
the end of the match.
Faraz Fatemi and Siamak Akbar Pour received their marching orders.
Results of the eight-week matches of the
fourth Iran Pro League on Thursday:
Zob Ahan 3 Esteqlal of Tehran 1
Saipa 0 Paykan 0
Abu Moslem 2 Sepahan 1
Persepolis 2 Esteqlal of Ahvaz 0
Saba Battery 3 Pas 2
Fajr-e Sepassi 2 Pegah 0
Foulad 3 Shamoushak 1
Barq 1 Malavan 0