AFC CHAMPION LEAGUE WEEK 4 (LIVE REPORT, NEWS ETC)

[Leicester City]

Hey Berg what are you doing in Hosseni's pocket? Get out of there!

[Tehranto]

Honestly Khibani - STFU

Kheyli cherto pert migeh. "Tabrik be football Asia" - are you high?

[Keano]

1-1 FT

Thiam has been the turning point for Esteghlal. The entire style of game for them changed for the better, ever since he joined the team.


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[Ali Doust]

Embarrassing to see Esteghlal play it's weakest game of its campaign in front of 100,000.

[Keano]

Embarrassing to see Esteghlal play it's weakest game of its campaign in front of 100,000.

Occasionally the packed Azadi has reversal effects on our teams. It’s mainly due to our players being overly emotional and nervous.


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[naderb94]

Esteghlal wins the group in the next matchday IF they beat Al Rayyan at Azadi followed by a Al Hilal win

[AsOen5]

Embarrassing to see Esteghlal play it's weakest game of its campaign in front of 100,000.

We played a pretty ok 2. Half without two of our key players in front ok 80.000 people.
There's nothing embarassing with that.

[teammelli91]

Once Thiam went out Esteghlal’s offensive structure broke down and Al Ain controlled the game throughout the majority of the second half. Esteghlal had a few highlights here and there but ultimately it wasn’t enough. Getting a 1-1 isn’t a bad result and it could’ve been worse.

Al Hilal is pretty much out unless they beat Al Ain in their next match. Esteghlal still has a big chance to make it out of their group. They play Al Rayyan at home and a win would secure them a place if Al Ain draws or loses vs Al Hilal.

[04041374]

Khiabani's sooti

https://www.instagram.com/p/BgO1oCcAjnh/?taken-by=footfuniran

[yashar_fasihnia]

Esteghlal has 2 major problems which Schaeffer needs to address and Im sure he knows both:

1) Inability to finish except Thiam. Careless hol holaki zarbe akhar in front of goal.

2) Immediately retreating into our own half as soon as we score. I believe this mentality has been instilled in the team from Mansourian days and its very hard to get out of it.

if esmayili, ebrahimi, jaber or ghorbani had scored their shots from 2 meters, we would have still won. but too careless upfront unfortunately. the group is still wide open and any 2 teams can still go through with 2 games left.

[Ali Doust]

Once Thiam went out Esteghlal’s offensive structure broke down and Al Ain controlled the game throughout the majority of the second half. Esteghlal had a few highlights here and there but ultimately it wasn’t enough. Getting a 1-1 isn’t a bad result and it could’ve been worse.

Al Hilal is pretty much out unless they beat Al Ain in their next match. Esteghlal still has a big chance to make it out of their group. They play Al Rayyan at home and a win would secure them a place if Al Ain draws or loses vs Al Hilal.

Even with Thiam the game plan was no good. They were rushing plays which was causing them to make too many bad passes. Players were running into each other, bad positioning. Overall it was one of the weakest if not the weakest performance under the Schafer reign.

[naderb94]

Al Duhail winning was great news for Zobahan. They are still 3 points clear for 2nd place.

Esteghlal is in a must win situation next week against Al Rayyan. Hilal might hand the game to Al Ain

[yashar_fasihnia]

Al Duhail winning was great news for Zobahan. They are still 3 points clear for 2nd place.

Esteghlal is in a must win situation next week against Al Rayyan. Hilal might hand the game to Al Ain

al hilal still has a good chance to qualify (if they win both games). no reason for them to hand any game right now.

[Camran khan]

Khiabani's sooti
https://www.instagram.com/p/BgO1oCcA...by=footfuniran

[The]

Once Thiam went out Esteghlal’s offensive structure broke down and Al Ain controlled the game throughout the majority of the second half. Esteghlal had a few highlights here and there but ultimately it wasn’t enough. Getting a 1-1 isn’t a bad result and it could’ve been worse.

Al Hilal is pretty much out unless they beat Al Ain in their next match. Esteghlal still has a big chance to make it out of their group. They play Al Rayyan at home and a win would secure them a place if Al Ain draws or loses vs Al Hilal.

It was already broken the moment they scored the penalty. SS was already in Ultra defensive mode when he was on the field.