🔻The most controversial moment of the 107th derby between Esteghlal and Persepolis: Arif Aghasi’s throat was injured and bleeding while play was stopped at the end of the first half, during a clash with Hossein Kanaanizadegan, the captain of Persepolis.

🔹Movaud Bonyadi-Fard, the match referee, had seen Aghasi’s bleeding throat, but he made no decision to penalize Kanaanizadegan.

🔹A football website has published a video showing what happened in the scene of the Persepolis captain’s clash with Esteghlal’s defender. This comes as Kanaanizadegan, after the match, denied that any incident occurred and, of course, by reminding the “spinal injury to Padavani” at Esteghlal, considered such “fighting” as normal in football.

🔹Also, by publishing an image of this scene, it wrote that Bonyadi-Fard asked the referees’ team in the VAR room about Aghasi’s throat wound. According to this medium, the VAR officials, due to not having a suitable and accurate image of the clash, did not diagnose that this scene deserved a red card.

🔹As this media wrote, Hossein Kanaanizadegan likely “didn’t trim the nails on his hand, and this contact caused the scratching in Arif Aghasi’s throat.”