trounce Slovenia.
Team Melli U-19 bounced back from the disappointing loss to Slovakia to beat Slovenia 3-0 in St Petesburg Peterburgsky Stadium.
in the Valentin Granatkin Memorial Tournament played on Friday , the young Iranians scored through Milad Sarlak as early as the 11the minute. Despite the majority of possession , the Iranians could not manage to add further goals i the first half which ended 1-0.
In the second half , Ezzati (59) and Seyyedi (72) added two further goals to complete a fine display by Team Melli U-19 and set up a match vs. Greece.
The next match will be against Greece for the 5th place match. The Greek had already qualified for the match after defeating St Petesburg.
Match № 29
The match № 29, play-off round, seventh tournament day
I.R.IRAN – SLOVENIA 3:0 (1:0)
January 10th, 2014, St. Petersburg, Peterburgsky SCC, 200 spectators
Referees: Yury Aponasenko, Aleksandr Rodionov, Roman Milyuchenko
Goals: Sarlak (11), Ezzati (59), Seyyedi (72)
I. R. Iran: Niazmand, Joudaki (c), Sohrabian, Hosseini (Salimi, 78), Sarlak, Bazaj, Seyyedi (Baghdadi, 74), Haghnazari (Soleimani, 46), Najarian (Moharrami, 51), Ezzati (Fathian, 71), Moghtadaei (Hashemi, 46)
Head coach: Ali Dousti Mehr
Slovenia: Sorchan, Primc, Kumer (Plavschich, 63), Poljanec, Vokich, Lorbek, Ojbolt (Petrovchich, 76), Gajich (c) (Adamich, 82), Krivichich, Vidovich (Taneski, 46), Nemanich (Zupanc, 46)
Head coach: Gliha Primoj
Yellow cards: Primc (60), Sarlak (66), Poljanec (77)
Best players: Chiva Milad Sarlak, Gal Primc
Post match comments
Head coach of the team I.R.Iran Ali Dousti Mehr:
– First of all I want to congratulate Slovenia for playing a good game. The result shows nothing of the real form of the match. I’m not happy with my players. I think players must improve from game to game and today our team has rolled back. We were developing and making progress in the previous matches. Our aim is to repeat the success of playing at the World Championship. But if we keep playing this way we can forget about it. We all, coaches and players, must be studying and developing all the time. I came to this tournament as a student as well. And I’ve already learnt much.
– You filled in the team sheet today quite late. Was it because of the indecision?
– No, we handed the sheet on time.
– You’ve said many times that your main goal is getting on the World Cup. And what’s next?
– Next we must show a good, notable playing there. We want our players to be memorable, we want them to be invited in European clubs. We have bright players who are able to shine on the football arena of the Europe. By the way we have very good contacts and relations with the Russian Football Union. They help us very much with developing Iranian football.
Head coach of the team Slovenia Gliha Primoj:
– A very good game. I liked it. Both teams had equal chances to win. I guess we created even more scoring moments but we haven’t realized any. It happens in football, when you don’t score the opponent scores.
– Your team was wasting scoring moments today. Have you trained or will you train the realization?
– No. There’s no sense. The problem is our individual playing, taking quick and right decisions. How can it be trained? I think good players will acquire this skill as they acquire more experience.
– Today you surprised everybody with your composure in the coach area, after you made us used to your emotional behavior. Why has happened?
– The game was normal: my players’ actions, fair playing and referees’ judging. By the way our delegation representative consulted with the referees. They discussed all the disputable moments and he confessed there were no mistakes in the judging. But my opinion is that referee has to read the game and not only follow the letter of law.
– Do you have prospective stars in your team?
– I think all our youth teams have candidates to the national team. We have a system when every year we take somebody for the national team. That’s where the result comes from, including the win over the team Russia.