AFC Champions League Week 3

[Nokhodi]

Qatari teams today got good results and I am affraid it will cause their national team to get more emboldened to face TM
This was not a good day for Iranian football in general and I sure hope we can get points of the Qatar WCQ match on March 23 rd !

I think it shows us what we always know - on a 1-1 comparison our players can beat any of their's, but if we underestimate, get sloppy or play lazy defense they can always counter.

Look how chances Persepolis made, what good did it do, when the defense had no idea what it was doing.

[DireStraits]

Once again Perspolis scores in the first 15 min. Unfortunately They could not keep it going that way. Mansourian is right. Any team who can take care of
Sorosh rafeei and Mosalman can win this perspolis. CQ is right that Branko is overrated. Ramin was missed. Branko sucks!

[Ardalan]

Bazie badi ba hamin qatarihast dar Azadi,

Agar nazme defa ra bebaran bala mitonan bebaran.

[perspolis#1]

This just told us that CQ will mark Soria and Tabata out of the game.

[sarbaz]

IranFan

Lekhwia and Alryian have a total of 13 national team players in the Qatar squad including Tabata and Souria who were some of the best players today for Alryian

[PersianLegion]

Some idiots in Iran see PP dominating the league and call Branko the best ever.

Nobody says Branko is better than CQ or he is the best coach ever. He is at least better than our vatani coaches but he is very stubborn in team selection for example not playing Rezaian or insisting on Rabihkhah while he is total garbage. His offensive football tactics are good and entertaining but he is clueless in defense and his subs are not usually very effective. Our own vatani coaches have nothing better than usual closing the gaps and hoping for counter attacks and long balls! It is so out dated and boring, it may give result in PGPL sometimes but not effective against stronger clubs because it only relies on chances and mistakes by opponent defenders in covering your forward.

This is a mentally clueless team. They play fantastic football in the final third, that is all they have... mainly because of technical players like Taremi, Amiri, Mosalman and Rafei.

(having technical players in offensive line) This is what we need to score and no other team has that combination in PGPL, we need a solid defense line to support this, then you get the best team ever. Unfortunately, our players are not professional but sensational and mentally weak (this is our problem since late 90s), if Iranian teams want to progress we need to work on mental prowess of our players.

Where are the tactics ? Where is the discipline?

Team had tactics but absence of Rezaian made our RB ineffective because Moharami was defending all the times instead of creating opportunities. He is young for this level of international football so I don't blame him. You are right about the discipline. Our defense line was totally out of sync today and didn't help our goal keeper. Same mental weakness that you mentioned. caused our players to be careless in passing in second half while one on one our team is stronger than Al Rayyan on the paper and showed it during the match as well specially in first half. Amiri and Taremi lost 4 east sitters today. If they had scored half of them the match was 3-3 at least.

Let me use TM as an example, twice against Uzb and Korea we scored early goals...and we were disciplined and had a plan, to the point where the opponent couldn't even muster a shot on goal.

You can not compare Team Melli with Persepolis in defense line. We only have two NT defenders in Seyed Jalal who is 35 now and Rezaian who was absent today. The rest are either veteran Mahini who was playing in CB instead of his usual place in LB/RB and Rabihkhah who is totally garbage and the reason Persepolis conceded many goals from half season onward. Sadegh Moharami was also pretty occupied in RB position and couldn't show his brilliant escapes to help the offensive line.

You need to consider that Branko is not a defensive minded coach; he believes in offensive tactics and has always had a bad record on defense even during the time he was our NT coach. If you have seen Persepolis defending well in last season and in first half of this season is because we didn't use Ansari in CB all the times and he was always covering our LB position (last season), we didn't have Rabihkhah giving wrong back passes and not coming back to cover his area. We had Maric in our CB last season who was a very good CB.

CQ has Milad Mohamadi in LB who defends well and runs like a horse helping our LW. We have Ghafouri and Rezaian in RB, Seyed Jalal and Montazeri covering the CB area pretty well and our DMF Ando/Ebrahimi/Kamal/Ezatollahi covering the area in front of the defense line pretty well. Fergusen called CQ, king of defense, for a reason. It is cruel to compare Branko and CQ in defense line. CQ wins this hands down.

Another big impact that Persepolis is experiencing in second half season is that our great prospect Ahmad Nourollahi left the team, he was always completing Kamyabinia in DMF when he was in the pitch or when he came up as sub for Kamal. Kamal got tired sweeping the ball alone after Nourollahi left the team. There is a lot of pressure on Kamal now and I just hope he won't get injured because we don't have a reliable sub for him. We saw how effective a solid DMF can be during the match with SS Tehran and Sepahan when Kamal was absent.

Iranian clubs will never win anything, our media moans about billion dollar Qatari foreigners, and our coaches are amateurish at best. Welcome to professional football, who cares that we have a 100% Iranian team.... why can't we attract one or two decent foreigners?

We had decent foreign players but they leave when we don't pay them. Michael Umania and Maric were both good CBs and they left Persepolis because they were not paid. Same story is happening in other teams. Sport ministry and IRIB are not injecting the teams with financial support as they have to pay for TV rights and being the owner of some clubs. Our money is being transferred to Lebanon and Syria to help Hezbollah and Assad regime. Our football is totally dried. You can see major clubs are begging the fans to pay the bills for them or defaulting on contracts left and right while club managers who have been installed by Sport Ministry got away with money they have stolen from these clubs. Mr Turkashvand in Persepolis is one example of corrupt officials in the club. Fatollahzadeh, Rouyanian, Ajorlo, ... were IRGC commanders who turned to CEO in our football directly installed by Sepah (IRGC).

Just keep that mentality as far away from TM as possible.

Definitely, we can not just blame other nations or clubs for having the money to pay for the foreign players. It is our wasteful financial management and corruption that are holding back our football not other nations. We should search about the problems in our own football instead of yelling "Look at our neighbors they have money and hire good foreign players". What have we done for our football to expect good results?! Miracle never happens. Only good team management, eligible financial managers, transparent financial plans, and progress in youth level can help us. We should force IRIB to pay for the TV rights. That is a big source of income for our clubs that is being denied. Sport Ministry and IRGC (paramilitary) should stay away from clubs and facilitate the privatization of big clubs like Tractor Sazi, Esteghalal, and Persepolis. With private investment comes the eligible management and that will cut the hands of corrupted few who were looking for easy money making by stealing the money injected by government to our football.

[Tehranto]

I hope everyone can shut up about this club and realize that when it comes to our principles, it should always be Team Melli over every damn club.

Too bad CQ didn't have a long camp - they would have learned a lot more.

[sarbaz]

I agree
TM is and should always be above club , and I am a huge perspolisi saying this.
I bet CQ is laughing hi ass off at Branko right now 😬😬😬😬

[mahestan]

HAHA, so when is Branko going to meet with the press and announce that this loss was because CQ took his players away which resulted in his team not being prepared?

[04041374]

That was the banner I was talking about before

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[mahestan]

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[Malavani]

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[DireStraits]

Have you ever wondered why Iran lost to Bahrain 3-1 and lost the world cup? We lost a world cup and now the Perspolis with 7 TM players is being coached
by Branko. How are these 7 players going to help TM in this time? If I was CQ I would not let any one of these 7 be in TM. Similar conditions. That time
Azizi and now Ramin