Tashkent: Futsal Team Melli started the campaign to regain its lost Asian title with an easy 6-0 win against Jordan in Tashkent this evening.

AliAsghar HassanZadeh (2) , Mahdi Javid (2) , Hossein Tayyebi , and Ghodrat Bahdori scored Iran’s goals against Jordan in the match that was played in the University Arena in the Uzbek Capital city. The first half ended 2-0 , goals scored by Hassanzadeh and Tayyebi.

It was plain sailing for Iran , although the bus parking technique that the Jordanian coach deployed to minimize the damage, gave Iran a few challenges in scoring. It did not yield much result for Jordan, though. Team Melli was comfortably controlling the majority of the possession and on the rare occasions they lost the ball, the Jordanians failed to capitalize. Jordan players hardly had more than a few seconds of ball possession each time creating no threat whatsoever for Sepehr Mohammadi in Iran’s goal.

Khalid , the Jordanian keeper was the hero of the first half for Jordan with his countless saves from all angles.

In the second half, it was much the same as the first with Jordan content on defending and Iran playing a slow passing game resembling a practise session. All players were used in the match by Iran Coach Nazim Ul Shariea.

When Iran increased the pace, the Jordanians did not have the solution and their defenses simply fell apart and in the process receiving 4 further goals in the second half.  Despite the 6-0 drubbing , Khalid was again the savior for Jordan as he single handedly managed to keep the score relatively respectable for Jordan . It could have easily been double figures score line.

Iran will play China , who were beaten 6-1 by Iraq in the earlier match , before finishing with what would be top of the table match against Iraq on Sunday.