Kermani-Moghadam: Too many changes in the composition have hurt the team / I think they have given us another foreign attacker! – Red news – Persepolis News
The former national midfielder of Persepolis, unlike some critics of the Persepolis team, believes that if Persepolis’ home games in the Premier League and the Asian Elite League were held in Tehran and Azadi Stadium, the results would have been very different and certainly better.
Morteza Kermani Moghadam, the former national team midfielder of Persepolis, firstly referred to Persepolis’ games in the Asian Elite League and the performance of this team and said: “Unfortunately, Persepolis has not done well in Asia so far and the results are proof of this.” 2 draws and 2 defeats are bad for Persepolis. Unfortunately, we didn’t play well in the last game and we didn’t get a good result. The boys were not like the two games against Al-Ahly of Saudi Arabia and Al-Saad of Qatar.
Kermani Moghadam went on to say why a team that played well against Al-Ahly and Al-Saad, who were stronger, but not against Al-Gharafa, said: Well, the sensitivity of the game was very high, and because we just wanted to win, our team order was messed up and individual mistakes were made. We had a lot, because it was almost our last chance, and if God forbid, we would have lost, that would have been it, but now there is still a corner of hope, because if we get results in the next two games, think I think there is hope, while we have to play against Al-Nasr and Al-Hilal, which is difficult. I hope we can get a result in these two games, if we don’t get a result then it should be regretted that we couldn’t be among the 8 promoted teams.
Kermani Moghadam then talked about the game against Gol Gohar and said: It was not a bad game. I think we were not very good against Gol Gohar either. But we got a good result in the opponent’s field. We circulate the ball well in the middle of the field, but we have problems in making the final shots. Then a player who is a midfielder by nature kills the attackers and scores a goal. Vahid Amiri is the star of the team, young people should follow his example.
Kermani Moghadam continued, considering the weakness of scoring even with foreign strikers and how he sees this striker, he said: Unfortunately, the foreign striker of the team has not worked as well as his name and official. Unfortunately, in several games, even as a constant striker I did not see anything special from him when he came to the square. They say that he should be given a chance, but for how long? I think they gave us this player too!
Kermani Moghadam further said about Isa El Kathir and Alipur: Isa was a fix player last season and scored important goals, but this season has not been good and I think it is a mental problem. Unfortunately, the new coach has no opinion on him. Mentally, a player who is fixed and then leaves will fall on the bench. These issues are effective and the player will have problems mentally! Alipour also runs well and tries, but he does not have the scoring prowess of Al-Katheer. Al Kathir may not press from the front and run a lot, but he is a good scorer.
The former national team midfielder of Persepolis also mentioned the many changes in the team’s main composition and said: “Unfortunately, one of the problems of the Spanish coach of the team is that he makes 4 to 5 changes in every game.” A foreign coach who comes to our country gets the main elbow after two or three games and continues with the same main elbow and finally makes a change, but unfortunately the changes of this coach are many and this has caused the necessary coordination not to be formed. As a coach myself, I say that many changes will harm the team. On the other hand, I must say that Garrido’s helpers can convey this issue to him. Their name is help, which means they should help. Now I don’t know what Garrido’s morals are and whether he accepts intellectual help and advice or not, but if Agha Karim and Seyed Jalal can help him, it would be very good. I hope that he will accept and not be a coach who is only his own words!
Kermani Moghadam further noted that one of the problems of Persepolis is not playing in Azadi Stadium. By saying this, he continued: “Unfortunately, one of the reasons why Persepolis did not perform well this season is that in order to play in Tehran, they have to go outside Tehran or play outside Iran.” This is a dilemma. You see, when we played with Al-Hilal in Tehran, we won 1-0 and 120,000 spectators came and 30,000 or 40,000 people were outside. Persepolis has enough fans. Be sure that the game was played at Azadi Stadium, don’t doubt that Persepolis would have easily won its games in the elite league and the league. This weakness shows the managers and officials of our country who think about other things and not about sports. They mixed sports with politics and are destroying Iranian football. In this situation and with all the facilities, if we take the Arabs, it will be cruel.
Regarding whether Persepolis still has a chance to advance or not, Kermani Moghadam said: I just tell the fans not to be too upset, Persepolis is always great. Be sure that they will win the league and advance in Asia with two wins.
