PERSEPOLIS VS AL HILAL (ACL-SEMI FINAL)(LIVE REPORT)

[Soosk]

Man what an embarrassing performance by Branko and persepolis. It is over. I hope Branko and PP fans and club don't cause a fight with Carlos and let the man have a proper training camp ahead of the friendlies in October.

Branko is nothing but a fraud. Carlos is a million times a better coach than him.

[Iran_19]

I do not think it is fair to compare the results of Teame Melli to those of our clubs. It is comparing apples and oranges. Al Hilal and the Chinese clubs have the advantage of signing quality international players which do contribute immensely to their success.

Perspolis came to this game with a defeated attitude.

The Iraqi player Rasan did play with purpose. It is a true shame that Branko starts Moslehi instead of him.

I guess you mean Mosalman, Mosleh is LB.

[ehsan singapore]

Man what an embarrassing performance by Branko and persepolis. It is over. I hope Branko and PP fans and club don't cause a fight with Carlos and let the man have a proper training camp ahead of the friendlies in October.

Branko is nothing but a fraud. Carlos is a million times a better coach than him.

i hope so, little we gona know he gona come in press and say we are the barcelona of asia and we can come back from 4-0 we need our players, i mean nothing is over till is finally over ,but i dont see them winning and not conceding, no taremi also is a problem, if we were playing in azadi maybe, but is oman i dont like our chances

[PSGman#19]

Where was the game?

[GolfePersique]

abu dhabi

[inarsenewetrust]

Man what an embarrassing performance by Branko and persepolis. It is over. I hope Branko and PP fans and club don't cause a fight with Carlos and let the man have a proper training camp ahead of the friendlies in October.

Branko is nothing but a fraud. Carlos is a million times a better coach than him.

lets not start this again. PP were simply out of their depth and missing their 4 key players ( Jalal, Ansari, Taremi, Kamyabinia ) and had mediocre replacements. They played far too open , but lets face it, hilal just were better player for player. PP needed luck and everybody to play spectacular to win today, and that didnt happen. They have been great this year in ACL, but I think they should have parked the bus today, ofc hindight is 20/20 .

Branko is still by far the best coach PP could wish for and he has done very well considering the resources of PP in comparision with all the other asian teams

[persian_pooya]

That was a horrible performance. The main issue was the Persepolis players weren't winning any of the 50/50 balls. They just didn't look like they wanted to compete today, either that or they've been overworked and didn't have legs.

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[kami_kakashi]

PERSEPOLIS VS AL HILAL (ACL-SEMI FINAL)(LIVE REPORT)

This is the level IPL is at. We always need reminders like this so every time an IPL player does well in Europe we don't hear the BS about how IPL is all of a sudden in par with other leagues

[pdot]

This is the level IPL is at. We always need reminders like this so every time an IPL player does well in Europe we don't here the BS about how IPL is all of a sudden in par with other leagues

Considering most other leagues have privately owned teams it's obvious our teams can't compete. The salary cap of Persepolis to the rest of the 4 teams in the semi-finals is huge.

[NFL]

the boys did the best they could. Kudos to them. It wasn't just injuries and suspensions. Al Hilal was and is the better side of the two. sometimes you just gotta take your hat off to the other guys and wish yourself better luck next time around.

despite all that, the ball didn't want to go in either. we had a few chances and several other opportunities to make better decisions and we didn't.

[Paradigm]

A young Syrian player scored three goals on Al-Hilal's side. He also plays for his country's national team and scored against Qatar. Australia might have their hands full during the WC playoffs.

[04041374]

Bring back Hamid Derakhshan!

[Iran_19]

lets not start this again. PP were simply out of their depth and missing their 4 key players ( Jalal, Ansari, Taremi, Kamyabinia ) and had mediocre replacements. They played far too open , but lets face it, hilal just were better player for player. PP needed luck and everybody to play spectacular to win today, and that didnt happen. They have been great this year in ACL, but I think they should have parked the bus today, ofc hindight is 20/20 .
Branko is still by far the best coach PP could wish for and he has done very well considering the resources of PP in comparision with all the other asian teams

This was on major part on Branko despite Taremi's issue and the absents of Jalal, Kamal and Ansari:
1. The team wasn't psychology ready specially after 90 program and Taremi's issue, again that is the coach job to make sure everyone is ready.
2. There was a HUGE tactic collapse in such a game: First why would you start a so called away match in semi-final of ACL with only 1 defensive midfielder? and the one with very little international experience. He realized it in second half and added Nourollahi but it was too late. Persepolis should have started the match with 2 DM and 1 forward.
3. Even after the 2nd goal and having man advantage, the defense played it horrible. At this point the little he could have done was to minimize the catastrophe, play with more caution and hope to score on set pieces. If not 0-2 was much better than 0-4. At 0-2 his team still had a little chance

[kami_kakashi]

Also Branko is no CQ.

[DR Strangemoosh]

Guys, I know a lot of you mean well and are patriotic young people.

But I think it is actually quite disrespectful to put a jobsworth jabroni like Branko in the same sentence as any other Croatian coach (and we have had a lot of great ones) or especially someone like CQ.

Branko is the tier of Ghalenoi. But worse than that because he made a lot of long-term decision for TM which harmed the national team, I believe, for a decade afterwards.


The Branko effect for TM.

- SPINELESSNESS: Sticking with one goalkeeper (Mirzapour) who was error-prone, and not even giving a chance to test other alternatives, and there were a few (contrast with CQ). Not altering his tactics and game plan, and keeping with the same formations/line-ups for every damn game. He just didn't want to experiment and try different players, he didn't like any chance. We had a series of very feeble performances in the 2005-early 2006 period but NOTHING was changed after them, and he had a lot more new talent at his disposal than his predecessors (remember poor Pourheidari who had a midfield of Fekri, Navazi, Halali to pick from)
- OUTSIDE INFLUENCE: Branko let himself be influenced too much by player agents such as Reza Fazeli who was in the TM camp for the World Cup, and we all know that it affected the team spirit. He also let Daei dictate matters far too much in terms of team selection.
- TEAM SPIRIT: Our team spirit was the worst for WC06 when players were even refusing to pass to each other, let alone speaking with each other (contrast with CQ and the tight-knit unit he has built)
- TACTICAL NONSENSE: After finally bringing Bayern Munich's Hashemian back into the fold, he pushed him out to the wing (absolute no man's land) to accommodate a stagnant Ali Daei, who was playing 90 minutes for every game, not even subbed out for young strikers to get a chance to get some game time.
- TROLLING: Bringing Khatibi back to TM, starting him and Enayati. Khatibi was a constant source of frustration, the worst finisher we have ever had internationally, how he had so many caps no one can explain (well, apart from Branko and Khatibi's agent at the time Fazeli probably).
- POOR TEAM SELECTION: I tend to understand or agree with pretty much every time that CQ picks, or at least accept the choices. When we had more talented players, I never understood why Branko picked Badavi, Alavi, Kameli Mofrad, Khatibi, Sattar Zare. He had a favoured group of players who he stuck with, who were worse than a number of their peers in IPL.
- OGHDEH - Falling out with his prized player (Mobali) when the latter refused to move to Dynamo Zagreb in 2005. At the time he was the only two-footed playmaker apart from Karimi and he was player of the year in IPL at the age of 21. He was just dropped after Branko's lajbaazi.
- STIFLING DEVELOPMENT - We had, at the time, arguably our brightest crop of aged 18-22 youngsters who all looked very talented (Kazemian, Mobali, Borhani). They weren't given enough playing time internationally to develop and ended up dwindling, as the coach just kept playing the same people for 90 minutes regardless of how they performed (contrast with CQ)


We have had some fantastic croatian coaches over the years, who have contributed a lot to TM, but more importantly to the development of TM. This guy has been a jabroni and really hampered TM in terms of development for a long time. I'm so glad we have CQ and not this man, because when CQ eventually leaves us, he will leave our team in a much stronger place.