According to the Tasnim news agency, the Omid teams of Iran and Iraq met at 20:30 tonight (Tuesday) in the final of the under-23 West Asian football tournament at al-Madinah Stadium in Baghdad. ended In this game, the Iranian team first scored a goal by Hossein Gudarzi in the 30th minute and Hossein Khadir equalized in the 45+3 minutes.
In the second half, the host team tried hard to score and had several good scoring opportunities. The Iraqis even scored a goal in one of the scenes, which was announced by the assistant referee’s offside flag. On the other hand, Hashemnejad disturbs the opponent’s defense line with his fast movements. However, in the second half, a ball did not cross the goal line and the game went to penalty kicks.
Yasin Salmani, Saeed Irankhah, Mohammad Ghorbani and Mehdi Hashemnejad scored in penalty kicks, but Saman Fallah’s penalty kick hit the goal post. Penalty kicks by Karar Hossein, Zaid Tahsin, Hossein Khadeer, Montazer Mohammad and Ahmed Makenzi scored goals so that the Iraqi team won 5-4 and became the champion of the under-23 football tournament in West Asia.
Reza Enayati, the head coach of Omid Kishoreman football team, sent his team to the field with the composition of Mohammad Reza Khaledabadi, Saman Turanian, Hossein Gudarzi, Saman Fallah, Mohammad Amin Hizbavi, Ahmad Shariatzadeh, Yasin Salmani, Aria Barzgar, Amir Jafari, Mohammad Ghorbani and Mohammad Hossein Eslami. . At the beginning of the second half, Mehdi Hashemnejad replaced Ahmed Shariatzadeh, and in the 66th minute, Mohammad Mahdi Ahmadi took the place of Amir Jafari, and Alireza Bavieh came on the field instead of Mohammad Hossein Eslami. Also, in the 89th minute, Saeed Irankhah replaced Hossein Gudarzi and Mohammad Hossein Zavarei replaced Aria Barzegar as a substitute player.
According to this report, Aria Barzegar received a yellow card from the referee in the 61st minute and Mohammad Ghorbani in the 66th minute.
It should be mentioned that in the group stage of the West Asia Hopes football tournament, our country’s Omid team was in the same group as Syria and Palestine. After advancing from the group stage, they faced Jordan in the semi-finals, who won 4-3 in the penalty shootout.