Bad News, Montazeri injured and will miss Asian Cup!!

[Javeed]

Our most likely formation for defence at AC would have been:
Montazeri-Sadeghi-Hosseini-Pooladi
Now it's really bad that Pooladi cannot play as he is the best in the left back position we have in Iran.
For Montazeri, the best solution would be to invite back...
Esteven Beitashour.

[greenguy4life]

Ryan Tafazolli.

[persepolisfan]

Let's wait and see what the full diagnosis is before coming to any conclusions.

[ali alipour]

Footballitarin says he will be out for 3 weeks which means he would only miss the first game but it also claims he is out for the tournament so not sure what queiroz will do

[TM homeboy]

In terms of defensive capabilities he is good but not our best, BUT we would feel his loss in terms of foot control and passing.

He def has the best passing and foot control abilities out of all our natural defenders, specially the centre backs.

Well fingers crossed he makes it and the Qatar team just over played his injury.

[ehsan singapore]

3 weeks, would mean he would be out till the 17th, the key is will CQ will wanna risk it and bring him cause the quater final is 23, he can still play but will CQ bring him is like hashem in world cup, and CQ brought him we shall wait to see

[Z Joon]

sometimes I just wish we had 11 Hashems in the team

[Salar]

The list is supposed to be released tomorrow, lets wait and pray.

[O-ZoNe]

Huge loss if he misses the AC. Without him and Pooladi our defence will certainly be weakened. Fingers crossed he will make it..

I remember getting called a bunch of names after these signings when I said going to these leagues will leave our players rich but injured. I hate to say it but we are fortunate guys like Dejagah and Gucci are not injured at present as well.

[babak_iran]

Sadeghi better step up and not play like he has been playing at Esteghlal this year, or we are doomed

[SinaBahali]

If I'm not mistaken, CQ has been using Pouraliganji as CB. Wouldn't mind see him start, based off of the games I've seen him play.

[Ghermez Agha]

If I'm not mistaken, CQ has been using Pouraliganji as CB. Wouldn't mind see him start, based off of the games I've seen him play.

Put Pejman more often than not is a RB....the SK friendly was the first time in probably 7-8 TM matches or so I think Heydari or khanzadeh is far more likely to be inserted into the XI than Pouraliganji

[Martin-Reza]

Considering how he behaved in regards to Beikzadeh at WC and the lack of alternatives to Montazeri, I am quite certain he will call up Montazeri.

[Essi]

[Leopard]

bad news....
If we did not have personality and mind set problems then Pooladi and Aghili would have been the other options. regardless maybe we are not looking carefully at top 3 teams in PGL..... There must be one or two that we have not discovered.