Match Report
5 points and 3 places separated them: Persepolis 6th with 34, Sepahan 3rd with 39. Persepolis had been under-performing their position — 16th on five-round form against 6th in the table.
GioScore's database holds 13 meetings between the two: 4 for Persepolis, 6 for Sepahan and 3 drawn, at 1.62 goals per meeting. Hosting has counted for little in this fixture — the home side has won only 38% of those meetings. Low-scoring is the pattern: just 23% of the meetings went over two goals.
Goal scorers
Persepolis: Oston Urunov (49'), Igor Sergeev (70') · Sepahan: Ricardo Alves (90')