2018 AFC CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

[Tehranto]

Dariush Shojaeian tore his ACL. Terrible news

[eerooni]

what a bad week: TWO out of three Iranian clubs lose!!!

[naderb94]

Happy to see AL Ain get crushed like they did to Al Duhail..

Hoping the two Tehran teams bounce back strong next week. ZobAhan especially with the risk of having no attendance in their next home game won't stand a chance against the two Qatari teams

[Gotham]

Seriously though, how did this Al Doodool team get so good all of a sudden? Never even heard of them previous seasons

[Kian Persepolis]

Seriously though, how did this Al Doodool team get so good all of a sudden? Never even heard of them previous seasons

They didn't exist in previous seasons. They're a merger between Lekhwiya and Al-Jaish

[PersianLegion]

Happy to see AL Ain get crushed like they did to Al Duhail..
Hoping the two Tehran teams bounce back strong next week. ZobAhan especially with the risk of having no attendance in their next home game won't stand a chance against the two Qatari teams

Honestly, with current situation I don't think any Iranian club can stand against Al Sadd or Al Duhail.

1. SS has lost Shojaian and Ebrahimi while Thiam is also injured
2. Persepolis is banned from signing any new player, Branko might even not sign an extension contract, Moharami will leave for Dinamo Zagrab after the home match vs Al Jazeera, Kamal is injured again. And lets face it. Persepolis is not the same team for sometime now. Particularly after the second half season started.
3. Zob Ahan has no support and tools to defeat those Qatari teams plus Morteza Tabrizi will join SS pretty soon.

Out of all Qatari teams, Al Duhail is very strong. I think they are going for the title. I can not see SS or Persepolis stand a chance against them. If SS had no injured players, they had a slim chance but now I am sure it is really hard to pass that team. We have to focus on WC anyway, so I think we should not care that much about ACL this year. Japanese and Australian teams didn't take it seriously either. Even Korean teams and most of Saudi clubs are focused on WC.

[naderb94]

Seriously though, how did this Al Doodool team get so good all of a sudden? Never even heard of them previous seasons

They're mainly Lekhwiya which were already a Qatari powerhouse so adding Al Jaish only made them stronger.

[naderb94]

Honestly, with current situation I don't think any Iranian club can stand against Al Sadd or Al Duhail.

1. SS has lost Shojaian and Ebrahimi while Thiam is also injured
2. Persepolis is banned from signing any new player, Branko might even not sign an extension contract, Moharami will leave for Dinamo Zagrab after the home match vs Al Jazeera, Kamal is injured again. And lets face it. Persepolis is not the same team for sometime now. Particularly after the second half season started.
3. Zob Ahan has no support and tools to defeat those Qatari teams plus Morteza Tabrizi will join SS pretty soon.

Out of all Qatari teams, Al Duhail is very strong. I think they are going for the title. I can not see SS or Persepolis stand a chance against them. If SS had no injured players, they had a slim chance but now I am sure it is really hard to pass that team. We have to focus on WC anyway, so I think we should not care that much about ACL this year. Japanese and Australian teams didn't take it seriously either. Even Korean teams and most of Saudi clubs are focused on WC.

Well SS just needs to beat Zobahan and then they'll have 3 months to rest players/buy players for the next round.
Perspolis is already good but they need a new coach and new motivations for the next round.

[eerooni]

Al Duhail has a very very good coach!! IFF needs to look at him in case We lose CQ , even PERSEP should keep an eye on this AL Duhail coach in case Branko decides to leave!

[naderb94]

Al Duhail has a very very good coach!! IFF needs to look at him in case We lose CQ , even PERSEP should keep an eye on this AL Duhail coach in case Branko decides to leave!

I doubt Perspolis would even be able to afford him.. Nobody would leave a Qatari team with all the money in the world to go to an Iranian team with piled up debt.
He doesn't have the credentials to replace CQ.. He has only coached AlDuhail with a stacked team and Qatar.. No thanks

[Iran_19]

If Im not mistaking Rahmati has been playing all ACL games for SS since the beginning and Hosseini is first choice for PGL. No one got dropped for the other

Rahmati played in Hazfi too, Schafer in his recent interview said after they had injuries in defense and had to play some young players there he had to go with experience keeper, he said Rahmati has an edge because of his communication with his defender and his foot play, something Hosseini needs to work on it as in today football keepers are involved in game.

[teammelli91]

Bad news about Shojaeian..

I really wanted to see him at the World Cup.. Even if he came on for 2 minutes. It breaks my heart and only God knows how he’s feeling. I’m sure he wanted the chance to prove himself.

Horrible news for Iranian football.. I wish Dariush a fast recovery and for him to get back!

[inarsenewetrust]

indeed very bad news, but not really for TM, more for SS where he was key player. I dont really think he had much a chance of getting any TM call ups, action before or during WC. Now SS will need the likes of Barzay, Mohsen Karimi (is he injured still?) to step up in his absence and take creative responsibility.

[MR.ESTESNAII]

What time pacific time is the Pp game tomorrow?. Thanks guys

[greenguy4life]

Gol Bezan are at the Asian Champions League Coaches Press Conferences in Tehran.

Matches this weekend as follows...

Persepolis vs Al-Jazira - 7:30 PM local time

Esteghlal vs Zob Ahan - 8:45 PM local time

Morteza Pouraliganji's Al Saad will be in action against Al Ahli - 8:40 PM local time.