Iran too powerful for Finland in Saint Petersburg

Persianfootball.com – SAINT PETERSBURG, Powerful Iran hammered Finland 5-0 today on January 5, 2014, to make it two out of two wins so far in the Valentin Granatkin Memorial Tournament.

Last year in the same tournament Iran had lost to Finland 2-1 on 10 January 2013. Slovakia plays Belarus in the other Group A match later today.

FINLAND – I. R. IRAN 0:5 (0:3)

January 5th, 2014, Saint-Petersburg, Peterburgsky SCC.

I.R. Iran: Amini, Joudaki (c), Sohrabian, Salimi (Hashemi, 78), Hosseini (Moharrami, 46), Sarlak (Soleimani, 59), Aghaei, Bazaj, Seyyedi (Fathian, 72), Haghnazari (Ezzati, 71), Najarian (Baghdadi, 46)

Head coach: Ali Dousti Mehr

Goals: Najarian (7), Joudaki (21), Seyyedi (31), Baghdadi (51), Fathian (75)

Best players: Alex Lehtinen, Mohammad Reza Bazaj