Team Melli and Omid football team met today in Azadi Stadium at 18:30 in a friendly match. The match ended in a one-on-one draw.
Mehrdad Mohammadi scored in the 13th minute for the Team Melli while Abolfazl Razzaghpour scored for the Omid team in the 65th minute.
Team Melli played in Red under Marc Wilmots and Farhad Majidi’s Omid Team played in white outfits.
First half
In the 11th minute and on the first serious attack, Mehrdad Mohammadi scored the opening goal of the match after a smart move from the right side followed by a neat strike.
After the goal, the match was balanced without much serious threats on either goals.
19th minute, Alireza Arta, who had penetrated into Team Melli half attempted a shot but it ended just over the bar of Rashid Mazaheri goal.
22nd minute, the game was paused by a rough tackle by Aref Gholami on Shahriar Moghanlou. For a few minutes, the doctors treated him and the player eventually continued to play without difficulty. Following the brief pause, the technical game and technical movements of the Team Melli players for the next period was countered by some rough tackling from Omid Team players !.
29th minute, Mehrdad Mohammadi could have scored the second but his powerful long-range shot was a whisker away.
40th minute, Mohammad Moslemipour missed a good chance to score the equalizer
The first half of the game ended 1-0 in favour of Wilemots players.
second half
in the second half, a complete new Team Melli showed up. Farhad Majidi also substituted several players, including Reza Jabeirah for Ghaedi, Mohammad Amin Asadi, for Azadi and Mohammad KhodabandehLo, for Babaei.
In the second half, most of the Team Melli’s attacks came from the right-hand side, and a Peyman Ranjbari was initiating most of the attacks.
50th minute, another goal-scoring chance was missed for Team Melli.
63rd minute, a mistake in Omid defence by Taha Shariati and quick move of Saeed Vasei’s, who robbed the ball and sent it to Peyman Ranjbari, but the striker could not reach it and missed a golden chance.
66th minute, misunderstanding in Team Melli defence between Mohammad Mohebi and Ahmad Gowhari, resulted in a goal. Quick thinking Abolfazl Razzaghpour took the Opportunity to score Omid Team’s equalizer from an acute angle.
67th minute, Mohammad Naderi shoots from the corner to the right of Team Melli’s penalty area, but his ball missed the target.
73rd minute, Ali Karimi’s nice cross was met by Peyman Ranjbari who headed powerfully, Nima Mirzazad saved well for a corner.
80th minute: the injury to Peyman Ranjbari, Shahriar Moghanlou returned back to the pitch.
87th minute, another chance missed by Team Melli, Omid defence sending the ball to a corner at last gasp.
The match did not have any yellow or red cards, but there were the occasional rough tackles that derived to punished by a card.
TEAM MELLI
First half: Rashid Mazaheri, Mohammad Hossein Moradmand, Siavash Yazdani, Daniel Esmaeilifar, Saeed Aghaei, Reza Asadi, Amir Hossein Karimi, Mehrdad Mohammadi, Mohammad Karimi, Arash Rezavand and Shahriar Moghanlou.
Second half: Ahmad Gowhari (Mehdi Amini, 67), Peyman Ranjbari, Mohammad Mohebbi, Ali Karimi, Imani Salimi, Saeed Vasei, Mohammad Ansari, Mehdi Shiri, Majid Alyari, Mohammad Naderi, Ahmad Abdollahzadeh.
Omid Team:
Me’araj Esmaeli (Nima Mirzadeh 45), Alireza Arta (Mohammad Aghajanpour 34), Aref Gholami, Taha Shariati, Muslimpour (Abolfazl Razzaghpour 45), Ismail Babaei (Mohammad Khodabandelo 45), Mehdi Mehdikhani (Reza Karimi 34) (Reza Shekari 45), Seyyed Mohammad Khorram Hosseini, Mehdi Ghaedi (Reza Jabeireh 45), Amir Roustaei (Amir Hossein Hosseinzadeh 34) and Mohammad Reza Azadi (Mohammad Amin Asadi 45).