In an interview with the sports reporter of Tasnim news agency, Ali Mousavi said about the conditions of Esteghlal in the first 10 weeks of the Premier League: It is true that Esteghlal is currently in third place and is two points away from the top of the table, but considering the potential that the blue-clad players have , this team has not obtained very good results. Sapinto has good people on the bench and on the field and his hand is open, but the type of game and the performance of the players on the field show that Esteghlal’s head coach has not yet gotten to know his team enough and needs more time.
He continued: In Esteghlal’s last game, Aluminum defended with a large number of players in order to leave Azadi Stadium with a point, and we saw that Esteghlal had problems against Aluminum and could not open the opponent’s goal. Most of the teams try to play in this way to at least not lose, but a team like Esteghlal must play in a way that tries many ways to reach the goal and the technical staff of this team must have a solution for this issue so that when the players enter the door He wants to show his players a new way to score goals.
“The attackers of Esteghlal were not fed well in the past games.”, the former striker of the Blues said: Esteghlal has several ready players in each position. In my opinion, the midfielders of Esteghlal in the past games could not give the strikers of this team a good possession of the ball and scoring opportunities. Practically, we don’t see playing and changing the playing area from Esteghlal midfielders. Peyman Babaei, Mehdi Qaidi and Mohammad Mohebi are fast players whose abilities Sapinto has not yet been able to use in Esteghlal games. If these players get the ball behind the opponent’s defenders, they can be dangerous in the penalty area to solve the problem of Esteghlal scoring.
Mousavi said about this week’s match between Esteghlal and Havadar: Esteghlal will definitely have a difficult game against Havadar. Saket Elhami got good results against Esteghlal together with Nasaji last season and even caused the elimination of the Blue Masks in the elimination cup. It is very likely that the fans will have an eye on counterattacks against Esteghlal, so the technical staff and players should use the experience of playing with aluminum. The earlier the Esteghlal players score, the easier it will be to defeat the fans, otherwise the game will be tied and it will be very difficult for the fans to score at the end of the game.