Sardar Azmoun @ Zenit St. Petersburg | 2020-21

[Preezy]

Top 40 football clubs worldwide according to FiveThreeEight. As much as some would like Sardar to transfer to a "top" flight league...he is currently in the best club from any of our active legionnaires (and more importantly, excelling there).
https://en.fc-zenit.ru/news/2020-08-...threeeight.htm
The Global Club Soccer Rankings Top 40
1. Man. City
2. Bayern Munich
3. Liverpool
4. Barcelona
5. PSG
6. Real Madrid
7. Man. United
8. RB Leipzig
9. Atlético Madrid
10. Chelsea
11. Dortmund
12. Atalanta
13. Sevilla
14. Inter Milan
15. Wolves
16. RB Salzburg
17. Leicester
18. Juventus
19. AC Milan
20. Leverkusen
21. Gladbach
22. Napoli
23. Zenit
24. Real Sociedad
25. Villarreal
26. Getafe
27. Ajax
28. Tottenham
29. Arsenal
30. Roma
31. Porto
32. Granada
33. Southampton
34. Olympiacos
35. Hoffenheim
36. Wolfsburg
37. Everton
38. Leganés
39. Flamengo
40. Lyon

This list is a joke. How is Leganés, a club that just got relegated to the second division, in the top 40 and above Lyon who’s currently in the quarter final of the Champions Leauge?

How is Leganés in the top 40 but not clubs like

Benfica, Sporting, Lazio, Fiorentina, Marseille, Lille, Monaco, Rennes, Nice, Valencia, Athletic Bilbao, PSV, AZ, Feyenoord, Celtic, Basel, Dinamo Zagreb, Dynamo Kyiv, Shaktar Donetsk

Just to name a few?

[Leicester City]

zenit with 2 wins but uninspiring football. They look tired as expected. Still the front 4 of driussi,dzyuba,azmoun,malcom is impressive and if in sync can trouble many teams in europe.

Lovren seems to have slotted in well and back 4 + GK + cdm are set.

They still really need more variability and speed in offense and one quality midfielder.

Wanderson of krasnodar has been mentioned which would be a sick addition with his pace and creativity. Him and malcom on opposite wings would be devastating with driussi off the bench.

For center mid they really need somebody like their ex player Axel Witsel who is now at dortmund. Somebody of that level and playing style would elevate them to a strong CL team, similar to zenit of past when axel witsel, danny, hulk and co were a force to be reckoned with in europe.

For the CM position, they should (IMO) sign Adrien Silva who's known for his dribbling and passing skills. And can link/transition from defense between attack; should be a feasible and realistic transfer target for Zenit.

As for Wanderson of Krasnodar, he is closer to Sporting than to Zenit if you believe Portuguese media.

[Medzdidz]

Sardar’s horse maybe getting it’s first race in October , great lineage as a colt of Frankel too.

https://www.racing.com/news/2020-08-...colt-on-target

[inarsenewetrust]

anybody watching atleti leizpig tonight what a game!!

this is real football, and leipzig play the most interesting modern style I see in europe now. Nagelsmann has built a real german machine.

And upamecano...This guy is seriously top 5 cb on earth, he has completely nullified costa and co all night (until his cb partner gave up dumb pk). In hindsight again zenit battled well vs leipzig, yes were dominated but kept it very close. And azmoun although physically up against this beast of a man still was able to fashion a couple nice moments for himself. To me that shows he can take it up to next level for sure.

Obv. a longshot bc of prices but azmoun (or any iranian ever) in this leipzig team would be my dream. They replaced werner with Hwang from sister club salzburg but still need a profile to replace shick whose loan ended and couldnt renewed. As well as a replacement for poulsen who started tonight after being phased out much of the season, his weak play led to turnover that resulted in equalizing PK play.

[Leicester City]

RB Leipzig are through!!! Zenit honestly were in a group of death :|

RB Leipzig should target to win the whole thing honestly after seeing what they did to Atlético!

[inarsenewetrust]

I think if zenit had malcom they would have gone through for sure instead of lyon. They were right there until second half capitulation vs benfica (without rakitskiy and driussi as well that night).

I think there is enough in their team with 1-2 more quality additions to be really dangerous in CL, even if they dont always click vs domestic opposition.

[KasraKhan]

anybody watching atleti leizpig tonight what a game!!

this is real football, and leipzig play the most interesting modern style I see in europe now. Nagelsmann has built a real german machine.

And upamecano...This guy is seriously top 5 cb on earth, he has completely nullified costa and co all night (until his cb partner gave up dumb pk). In hindsight again zenit battled well vs leipzig, yes were dominated but kept it very close. And azmoun although physically up against this beast of a man still was able to fashion a couple nice moments for himself. To me that shows he can take it up to next level for sure.

Obv. a longshot bc of prices but azmoun (or any iranian ever) in this leipzig team would be my dream. They replaced werner with Hwang from sister club salzburg but still need a profile to replace shick whose loan ended and couldnt renewed. As well as a replacement for poulsen who started tonight after being phased out much of the season, his weak play led to turnover that resulted in equalizing PK play.

Leipzig is so, so good. And so fun to watch. And this is without their supposed best player from last year, Werner.

I think we discussed this when Zenit played Leipzig, but I was sad how Dayot got the better of Sardar. Now come to realize it, Dayot is just a once in a generation talent. He has no flaws as a CB. And as you said, Sardar got the better of him a few times and almost scored (I believe he got past Dayot, but the ball barely rolled wide of the post).

[Iranianarsenal11]

Leipzig, Shakhtar, Zenit, Atalanta, and Leicester City IMO are some of the most underrated clubs in the world

[kian_khosh]

anybody watching atleti leizpig tonight what a game!!

this is real football, and leipzig play the most interesting modern style I see in europe now. Nagelsmann has built a real german machine.

And upamecano...This guy is seriously top 5 cb on earth, he has completely nullified costa and co all night (until his cb partner gave up dumb pk). In hindsight again zenit battled well vs leipzig, yes were dominated but kept it very close. And azmoun although physically up against this beast of a man still was able to fashion a couple nice moments for himself. To me that shows he can take it up to next level for sure.

Obv. a longshot bc of prices but azmoun (or any iranian ever) in this leipzig team would be my dream. They replaced werner with Hwang from sister club salzburg but still need a profile to replace shick whose loan ended and couldnt renewed. As well as a replacement for poulsen who started tonight after being phased out much of the season, his weak play led to turnover that resulted in equalizing PK play.

upamecano was insane... i never knew how good he was on the ball. his touch and pass was crazy good for a center back

[diz]

Vote for Sardar in the AFC's greatest goal bracket challenge:

Sardar Azmoun (IRN) v Mao Jianqing (CHN)

https://www.the-afc.com/competitions...ao-razali-yoon

[Medzdidz]

Zenit away again Rostov, kick off at 6pm GMT.

[diz]

[Ghermez Agha]

Shomurdov from Rostov is one to watch for us - Uzbekistan NT striker and one of the leagues best. Will be a good test for our CBs in a few weeks from now.

[Medzdidz]

Interested to see how Azmoun performs without Dzyuba up front with him. Azmoun the main man today , hope he can bag a couple, also if there is a penalty he may take it.

[diz]

Interested to see how Azmoun performs without Dzyuba up front with him. Azmoun the main man today , hope he can bag a couple, also if there is a penalty he may take it.

Yes, it'll be a nice test for his TM appearance (though he should have Mehdi helping him as well). It'll also be a nice game for him to shine and bag 1-2 goals to start his goal tally this season.