According to Mehr reporter, Javad Nekonam said in a press conference on Tuesday evening after his team’s home defeat against Sepahan Isfahan: “Today Sepahan won without an attack and without a chance.”
He continued: Our team played well. This is football and today we saw the ugliness of football and it made us lose the game due to a mistake and a moment of negligence and give three points to the opponent. There is a scene in the game where we don’t have 18 steps in and out, but Zahedifar gets a foul in favor of Sepahan, which is funny.
Nekonam added: The opposing team is wasting time and their coach says to sleep on the ground, we made five substitutions and Sepahan also had substitutions, but the referee only takes five minutes of extra time. Last week, they took 9 minutes of overtime and we scored in the 10th minute.
The head coach of the Khuzestan Football team emphasized: I also told the club that we will face problems in the game against Tractor and Sepahan. Is it possible for an ascetic to judge for us three times in one half-season?! He publicly showed today that he has a problem with the Foulad team.
Nekonam stated: I talked to the club about the referee and the club should have acted stronger. No one cares for Khuzestan steel. Football is for four or five teams and everything is under control. The actions and talks of other coaches, if we do them, they will be judged right here and performed in the middle of the field.
In response to the question, “What are the conditions for Foolad to play against Al-Faisali of Saudi Arabia?”, he said: “I have always told the truth.” Our situation is not ideal. We can’t change strikers and we didn’t get help. There is nothing that the club wants to get a player for the forward position.
Nekunam clarified that Foulad fans expect this team to present offensive football: You play football according to what you have. Whether I play an adult player or a promising player, the bottom line of football is that we have to get results. Football has logic and emotional fans speak. Today Sepahan defended and wasted time and put the game to sleep and got three points. Football has its own rules and you have to win the game. Sepahan has been planning to win the cup for many years, but has not yet been able to become a champion.
The head coach of the football team of Khuzestan football team stated that the bench of this team is not calm: We have seen Sepahan’s bench now. We also saw the benches of Persepolis and Esteghlal. We saw all the benches. Javad Nekonam is a person who doesn’t compliment anyone and does his job and fights with everyone for the right of his team. This is something that many people do not like, why? He succeeds because he has no name. In this success, be sure that I have enemies.