In the last group match of the AFC Asian U-19 championship, Team Melli U-19 put six goals past the hapless Kuwaitis to confirm its qualification to the next round of the competition as group leaders.
Japan and UAE played a goal-less draw which puts Iran on top of the table with 7 points , while Japan qualified as the second of the group with 4 points.
Team Melli played a one-sided match and completely overwhelmed the Kuwaitis. In an astonishing event , hardly experienced as such level of football , Iran’s goalkeeper Nasseri , has not touched a single ball from a Kuwaiti player during the whole of the match. Whatever Kuwaiti offensive there was , it was simply and easily dispatched with by the “Wave-breaker” defense of Iran.
The midfield was controlled effectively by the Iranians , and fed many good balls for the forward players, however, the bravery of the Kuwait goalkeeper prevented a drubbing early in the first half. The First Iran goal came late but it was worth waiting for. on the 27th minute , from a rebounded ball , Valid Zadeh Mashaei scored a scorcher from outside the box into the roof of the net.
The first half ended 1-0 for Iran.
The second half started with Kuwaiti players looking exhausted from the onslaughts of the first half. in the 53rd minute , a brilliant piece of individual skill by Ehsan Pahlavan made it 2-0 for Team Melli. Pahlavan dribbled past 3 Kuwaiti defenders before shooting past the Kuwaiti keeper from inside the box.
5 minutes later it was Sardar Azamoun’s turn to score. The substitute pounced on a lose ball and turned 180 degrees to score into an empty net. Iran was leading 3-0 with another half an hour to go. The floodgates was open for Team Melli U-19 while the Kuwaitis started playing rough in order to stop the much fitter and the more skilful Iranian players.
On the 64th Hossein Fazeli , the other substitute scored Iran’s 4th.
Defender Rozbeh Cheshme made it 5-0 from a simple tap in with 15 minutes to go.
3 minutes later , Hossein Fazeli scored his second and the team’s 6th from a nice header that wrong footed Kuwait keeper. From then on the frustrated Kuwaiti were clearly trying to stop the Iranian player by any means including hurting the opponents by intentional rough play. For their dirty tactics , they got several yellow cards and two red cards courtesy of the South Korean referee. One Kuwait player nearly crippled Framarzi in a rough tackle. The Iranian stretchered out never to return to the match as Iran had to play the final 9 minutes of the match with 10 players as they have exhausted their 3 substitutions.
With this comprehensive win , Iran will now meet Korea Republic in the Quarter final
| Teams | ||||||||
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| IRAN | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 7 |
| JAPAN | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 4 |
| U.A.EMIRATES | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| KUWAIT | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | -7 | 1 |
AFC U-19 CHAMPIONSHIP 2012 |
FINAL ROUND | ||||
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07-11-2012 21:00 GST
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Fujairah Stadium, Al Fujairah City, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES |  |
1,200 |
| I.R. IRAN | 6 | 1 | 1st Half | 0 | 0 | KUWAIT |
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| 5 | 2nd Half | 0 | ||||
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| Penalty Kick |
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96 minutes |  |
EHSAN PAHLAVAN |
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Warm and humid |  |
27 C |
Goals: Valid Mashay Zadeh (27), Ehsan Pahlavan (53), Sardar Azmoun (58), Hossein Fazeli (65 , 78), Roozbeh Cheshmi,(75)
Iran : Mohammad Naseri (gk); Yousef Vakia, Roozbeh Cheshmi, Hossein Kanani, Mohammad Ali Faramarzi, Ahmad Abdollahzadeh (66; Mohammad Daneshgar), Alireza Jahanbakhsh (c), Ehsan Pahlavan, Valid Mashay Zadeh, Behnam Barzay (55; Hossein Fazeli), Ali Choopani(40′ Sardar Azmoun)
Kuwait: Khalifah Aldhufairi (c); Saud Altourki (59′ Meshari Alobaidan ). Nader Alenezi , Sami Alsanea (68′ Yaqoub Husain), Abdullah Alrashidi, Mohammad Albathali, Mohammad Alqabandi (32′ Mohammad Alenezi), Fahad Alhamdan , Omar Almutairi, Mohammad Alfahad, Abdulrahman Alshammari
Referee: KIM DONG JIN (KOREA, REPUBLIC)
Yellow Cards:
Iran: Sardar Azmoun (53)
Kuwait: Abdullah Alrashidi (22), Mohammad Alenezi (33 + 93), Sami Alsanea (50)
Red Cards
Kuwait: Mohammad Albathali,(92), Mohammad Alenezi (93)
afc.com reports
Fujairah: Iran outlined the AFC U-19 Championship title credentials with an emphatic 6-0 victory over Kuwait on Wednesday that saw the Iranians advance to the quarter-finals as Group A winners.
Valid Mashay Zadeh gave Iran a 1-0 advantage to take into the second-half before the four-time champions turned on the style after the interval with five unanswered goals saw them top the Group A table and set up a quarter-final clash with Korea Republic on Sunday.
Iran dominated from the start and after Alireza Jahan saw his 22nd minute free-kick pushed out for a corner by Khalifah Al Dhufairi before the Kuwait keeper needed to be bailed out by a defensive team-mate who was on hand to clear Behnam Barzay’s goal-bound header off the line.
The crossbar came to Kuwait’s rescue four minutes later when Jahan beat two defenders only to see his shot rattle the woodwork.
But as the game approached the half-hour mark Iran’s dominance finally paid off when Zadeh collected a defensive clearance on the edge of the area and dispatched the ball into the Kuwait net.
Kuwait were more composed at the start of the second half but after Jahan and Zadeh had efforts on goal Iran doubled their advantage in the 54th minute through Ehsan Pahlavan before the Kuwaiti defence couldn’t deal with Jahan’s cross from the right which allowed substitute Sardar Azmoun to slide home number three five minutes later.
Azmoun turned provider for fellow substitute Hossein Fazeli to make it 4-0 in the 64th minute before Jahan’s cross gave Roozbeh Cheshmi he time and space to slot the ball into an empty net.
Fazeli completed the scoring in the 78th minute when he headed in Pahlavan’s cross at the near post but Kuwait’s misery didn’t end there as Mohammad Al Bathali and then substitute Mohammad Al Enzi were both sent off in stoppage-time, with Al Bathali receiving a straight red for kicking out at an Iranian player and Al Enzi getting his marching orders after picking up a second yellow card for a foul shortly after.