In an interview with the sports reporter of Tasnim news agency, Mohammad Ghorbani said about Sepahan’s high-goal win against Almaliq: Our goal was to win and improve our goal difference, but we did not think that we would score 9 goals against the opponent team. This win improved our situation in the group and of course we have two very tough games against the Iraqi Air Force and Al Ittihad and I hope we get good results in these two games and advance from our group.
In response to the question, “Do you agree that the failure of Sepahan and Persepolis to advance to the knockout stage of the Asian Champions League is considered a big failure for Iranian football?”, he clarified: “It is definitely so, but I hope that we and Persepolis, as the representatives of Iran, will make it to the knockout round.” let’s climb
Ghorbani also stated about the Asian Football Confederation’s ruling and declaring Sepahan as the loser against Ittihad: This verdict was really unfair and I was very annoyed as one of Sepahan’s players. I saw the best sports atmosphere of my life that day at Naqsh Jahan Stadium in Isfahan, and if Ittihad had not left the stadium, we could have defeated them. In my opinion, the fairest decision was to replay the game.
The midfielder of the Sepahan football team expressed his satisfaction with scoring a goal in the match against Almalik of Uzbekistan and noted: I am happy that I scored my second goal in my third Asian game and I hope to continue this process. After participating in the Omid team, my wish is to be invited to the senior national team, and I hope this will happen.
He also mentioned about his team’s upcoming match against Persepolis: without a doubt, we have a tough game against Persepolis, because they are one of the high-quality teams in the league. However, we are the hosts and I hope the fans of Naqsh Jahan Stadium will play their part in defeating Persepolis with their support. Persepolis is definitely our main rival in the league and in order to increase our chances of winning the championship, we must defeat our direct opponents.