Nilu, Shoja, westi, thanks for the well wishes.
biAzar jAn, sharmandeyeh mohabbatetam.
I taped the game, and watched it. Wow! Finally, a good, exciting game
between these two. At least the last 35 minutes or so. You EsEs fans
must be ecstatic to win it in such a dramatic fashion with like 5 seconds
to go. I'd take this one to the top of your future korkori list.
Both teams
had their chances, but the Blues won derservedly because they played better
as a team. Again, congrats to my Abi friends. Some comments:
1- Reds 2nd goal was undoubtedly offside (I'm sure it's been discussed in other threads).
The first one couldn't have been offiside because the pass to Sheis was by Enayati.
2- Persepolis had played better as a team in its previous games. In this one,
everyone seemed to want to go it alone, and they failed badly.
3- Asadi was aweful. Too many unnecessary fouls. If he was meant to play
the "takhribi" role in Pers, he failed badly. Oladi was invisible too. Someone
better teach this kid this is a team game before he goes on ruining what
could potentially be a decent career. Bagheri was not the same player he
was over the last few weeks. He was again slow and unmotivated. For
Perspolis, he was a key man, and he didn't show up today.
4- IMO, Fekri was Taj's best player. He won every ball on the defensive side,
and didn't make one mistake. He also brought Taj back by that nice goal.
Mansourian played as solidly as he has the whole season.
5- EsEs won this game because they wanted it more. They won almost
all 50-50 balls, and those rebounded from Perspolis's defence. All three
Taj's goals were scored off of balls returned by PesePes defence and
won by Taj.