Gol Gohar secured a 3:2 victory over Shams Azar Qazvin at the seventh round of the Persian Gulf Pro-League on Wednesday. The result keeps the visitors in ninth place while the hosts remain rooted at fourteenth. It was a match where momentum shifted more than once, and the decisive moments came when neither side expected them.
M. Aliyari opened the scoring in the twenty-sixth minute for the visitors, and by then Shams Azar had already seen A. Alizadeh booked. M. Alinejad restored parity six minutes later before M. Mamizadeh put Gol Gohar back ahead in the thirty-sixth. Shams Azar pulled one back through an own goal from M. Nejadmehdi in the forty-second minute, and the visitors led 2:1 at the break.
The second half brought more interruptions. S. Moazemitabar was shown yellow in the sixty-fourth before being substituted two minutes later. Shams Azar pushed for an equaliser but Gol Gohar refused to go away. The visitors added a third in the eighty-sixth minute, though the scorer was not recorded in the available data.
We had tipped an away win before kick-off, giving Gol Gohar 42 per cent confidence. The visitors had been struggling recently — losses to Tractor and Aluminium Arak — but they showed resilience when it mattered. By then, Shams Azar had dropped to three defeats in six games and were clearly searching for consistency.
Both sides accumulated cards throughout the contest. Shams Azar picked up three yellows — Alizadeh, Mansouri and S. M. Hosseini — while Gol Gohar received two, both for Moazemitabar and one unnamed player. No red cards were issued despite the growing tension in the final quarter.
The statistics tell a simple story: five goals, five yellow cards, and a result that reflects the ebb and flow of the match rather than dominance in any one period. Shams Azar remain on five points from six games, while Gol Gohar move to seven, closing the gap slightly on the teams above them.
