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

[Persian-Pride87]

My comment was not meant to be taken that way. We should invest as much as possible in our sports whether its our football (clubs and national team) or other sports, we SHOULD invest! Sadly, there is too much corruption and mismanagement so investing in our sports has not happened.

What I meant was that sometimes its best to emotionally divest yourself from something that causes you pain and that can be anything (sports, relationships etc). I am against your argument for divesting from Team Melli. Our national team needs and deserves our attention and passion. Especially now that we see undeniable tangible results under CQ.

You right. It is almost over following IPL for me as well. But we should not invest too much on our national team as well. I remember I got so disappointed after 2006 WC. We had a good team and very optimistic about the future but everyone knows what happen then. I know many Iranian fans (my peers) who gave up Iranian football after 2006 WC.
The memories of 2006 is coming back to me. Coincidentally, same coach and similar story (Daei our old striker destroyed our hope, and here Taremi's story salvaging the team)... I got to go and chill now.

[Leicester City]

Perspolis to pull a Barca and be great again! #MakePerspolisGreatAgain!

[CHaMiLLionaire]

The two biggest clubs in Iran got annihilated by the two biggest clubs in UAE and Saudi Arabia.

6-1 and 4-0, for a total of 10-1.

And you're still talking about Iranian pride?

This is why none of these local players barely make it to the starting line up of TM.

This is a slap in the face of all those critics who said, "CQ doesn't watch the league".

[teammelli91]

The players were tired for some reason and could not run. But we have to be fair here that Persepolis was not a match for Al Hilal specially without Ansari, Taremi and Kamyabinia we were not the same team. Hilal was the better team and they deserved this win, but this is football, an anything can happen in the 2nd leg, but we should be realistic that we could not score for 40 minutes against their 10 men, they were a class above our players.

I think we need a playmaker and an all around striker like Taremi as Mensha is a direct and fast player but does not have dribbling abilities to do unexpected moves in the box. Branko did not have many options and we saw the team was losing it's touch after one defeat and a draw in the league and without Tarmei, they clearly had no game plans. And not scoring goals on their chances showed that Persepolis is not the same team without him.

Let's be realistic, we all love our team and want them to succeed but we suck at infrastructure and don't spend serious money as we really need to become professional about the game and build infrastructure and bring coaches and great players to give our football an identity as we do not have any club identity yet we need to learn from these Arab teams as football is mostly decided outside the pitch and a strong logistics team wil win you more games like Al Hilal does.

Cheer up guys, anything is possible in football, so let's at least get some Iranian pride back.

Great post! Couldn't agree with you more 👍🏼

[PersianLegion]

I am a big sports fan and long time ago I was a die hard esteghlal fan and followed the IPL. Not anymore. I feel bad for you that are perspolis fans. I know what its like to be invested in a team only to watch them get humiliated, so I understand the frustration in some of you. In a way I am kinda happy I no longer have any rooting interest in any Iranian club.

Let's let go of the AFC Champions League this year (because as of now it is truly over) and focus on something far more appealing and positive and that is Team Meli and the upcoming World Cup.

You right. It is almost over following IPL for me as well. But we should not invest too much on our national team as well. I remember I got so disappointed after 2006 WC. We had a good team and very optimistic about the future but everyone knows what happen then. I know many Iranian fans (my peers) who gave up Iranian football after 2006 WC.

The memories of 2006 is coming back to me. Coincidentally, same coach and similar story (Daei our old striker destroyed our hope, and here Taremi's story salvaging the team)... I got to go and chill now.

[mahestan]

I am a big sports fan and long time ago I was a die hard esteghlal fan and followed the IPL. Not anymore. I feel bad for you that are perspolis fans. I know what its like to be invested in a team only to watch them get humiliated, so I understand the frustration in some of you. In a way I am kinda happy I no longer have any rooting interest in any Iranian club.

Let's let go of the AFC Champions League this year (because as of now it is truly over) and focus on something far more appealing and positive and that is Team Meli and the upcoming World Cup.

One can hope that TM doesn't end up with the same outcome as PP did today. Our GK situation is a mess and needs attention ASAP. Berianvand should not be our main GK. I don't understand what outcome we need for our coaching staff to realize that.

[Persian-Pride87]

I am a big sports fan and long time ago I was a die hard esteghlal fan and followed the IPL. Not anymore. I feel bad for you that are perspolis fans. I know what its like to be invested in a team only to watch them get humiliated, so I understand the frustration in some of you. In a way I am kinda happy I no longer have any rooting interest in any Iranian club.

Let's let go of the AFC Champions League this year (because as of now it is truly over) and focus on something far more appealing and positive and that is Team Meli and the upcoming World Cup.

[PersianLegion]

Unbelievable! Playing almost an entire half against 10 men and still not only almost no improvement and no goals, but we even conceded even 2 more!?!

A score of 2-0 was still doable to overcome, but now it's pretty much as good as over. Can't believe we conceded 2 more in the 2nd half!

Very irritating game!

Specially after that Al Ain 6-1 SS this Al Hilal 4-0 PP is more irritating. I am sure the score was a lot different if Taremi was in the mach or at least we had Ansari as our LB. Mosleh was just horrible. Hosseini and Ansari missing this match pretty much was a big alarm that our defense won't work properly and bringing Nourollahi so late specially when we were playing against a much better Al Hilal team was another mistake Branko did.Finally, not having Taremi hit the team offensively pretty much.

Anyhow, we all know by now that with these sort of mismanagements in our clubs even PP f...d up pretty much in big stage. It is the same story of mismanagement, unprofessionalism, and stealing money at our clubs. We can not achieve anything major until we deal with these issues.

[webmaster]

The players were tired for some reason and could not run. But we have to be fair here that Persepolis was not a match for Al Hilal specially without Ansari, Taremi and Kamyabinia we were not the same team. Hilal was the better team and they deserved this win, but this is football, an anything can happen in the 2nd leg, but we should be realistic that we could not score for 40 minutes against their 10 men, they were a class above our players.

I think we need a playmaker and an all around striker like Taremi as Mensha is a direct and fast player but does not have dribbling abilities to do unexpected moves in the box. Branko did not have many options and we saw the team was losing it's touch after one defeat and a draw in the league and without Tarmei, they clearly had no game plans. And not scoring goals on their chances showed that Persepolis is not the same team without him.

Let's be realistic, we all love our team and want them to succeed but we suck at infrastructure and don't spend serious money as we really need to become professional about the game and build infrastructure and bring coaches and great players to give our football an identity as we do not have any club identity yet we need to learn from these Arab teams as football is mostly decided outside the pitch and a strong logistics team wil win you more games like Al Hilal does.

Cheer up guys, anything is possible in football, so let's at least get some Iranian pride back.

[Kian Persepolis]

I don't really watch the PGL, but how is Persepolis' backup Croatian goalie? Is he better than Beiranvand? Also, where was Hosseini today? I thought he was supposed to play today?

[naderb94]

For Gods Sake......how could this happen? 2 goals against 10 in 40 minutes...wtf. Beiranvand scares me to hell with his performance today....we in serious trouble reagrding TM Goalie for WC2018.

Not necessarily Beiro's fault.. Mahini/Shoja is a terrible pairing. Mahini is a natural LB and Shoja just isn't quality for these stages.
Seyed Jalal and Ansari were severely missed. Luckily for Beiro, he has the likes of PAG, Jalal, Montazeri in TM

[KeonKish]

We see that Branko is the mediocre coach we all know he is.

Without a few players, his team became useless.


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[Amin_]

Unbelievable! Playing almost an entire half against 10 men and still, not only almost no improvement and no goals scored, but we even conceded 2 more!?!

A score of 2-0 was still doable to overcome, but now it's pretty much as good as over. Can't believe we conceded 2 more in the 2nd half!

Very irritating game!

[Karimi 8]

What a shit performance. Terrible giveaways in midfield gifted Al Hilal their goals.

Two players performed today, and by performed I mean Rasan was our best player and our only average player was Nourollahi. 9 players were pretty much a waste of space for the entire game. Can't blame this on Taremi not being there, we actually played like amateurs, there was no excuse for that. All we needed was a bit of composure and one goal when they were a man down. But our defense and midfield decided to play like complete trash. Where the hell was the marking? Why couldn't the midfield complete a single pass or cross? Its not too much to ask for professional soccer players to be able to pass the ball to each other, but apparently that was to much to ask from them today. Conceded two goals from a 10 man Al Hilal, lol nice job!

Also Beiranvand is one of the shakiest goalies we have ever had, he needs to be benched. That is enough. He needs a wake up call, he has had enough chances, something is not right with him anymore, and he needs to sit out a few games.

[PersianLegion]

Beiranvand does not deserved to be #1 GK in NT. He has been so full of himself recently and dropped his form significantly. This is a wake up call for all of us. Our defense were absolute shit. CQ kept our goal closed up to the last match. This shows how important the defense is and we conceded 2 goals on counter attacks the same method CQ uses as well. Branko and his team was out classed in this match.