Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Isfahan: Hosts Tasisat Daryaei made a statement of their intent at the 2015 AFC Futsal Club Championship on Friday evening as Vahid Shamsaee led his team to an 8-1 win in Group A over an outclassed Al Khaleej from the United Arab Emirates at Nagshe Jahan Stadium.
The game was over as a contest long before half-time as the home team led 6-1 at the interval, with all six goals for the Iranian side coming from different scorers.
Veteran superstar Shamsaee scored a goal in each half, claiming his side’s third after Ghasem Orouji opened the scoring just two minutes into the game while Rashid Obaid put through his own net six minutes later.
Shamsaee scored a minute later before Mohammed Keshavaraz, Ghodrat Bahadori and Saeid Ahmad Abbasi all netted to give Tasisat an unassailable lead.
Yousif Mohamed scored on the stroke of halftime for Al Khaleej but further goals from Asghar Hassanzadeh and Shamsaee in the second half confirmed Tasisat’s superiority.
“We are so happy with this result,” said Tasasat Daryaei coach Amir Shamsaei. “We want to do our best in every game because we have five very important games, and each of them is a final.
“We did our best in our first game and we should continue to try do our best in the next game against Qadsia.
“We expected to score more goals, maybe as many as 10, but unfortunately we couldn’t score that many today.”
Orouji put Tasisat in front with just two minutes on the clock, thrashing home from wide on the right to give Talal Khaled in the Al Khaleej goal no chance, while six minutes later Obeid turned Abbasi’s cross into his own goal.
Shamsaee lashed his attempt home from distance in the ninth minute before Keshavaraz made it 4-0 with a header and Bahadori claimed the fifth from the tightest of angles on the left.
Abbasi scored the sixth with the simplest of finishes to complete a flowing move one minute before the break, and with only seconds left on the clock Mohamed hit Tasisat on the break to open Al Khaleej’s account.
Hassanzadeh’s left foot strike a minute after the restart restored Tasisat’s six-goal advantage and Shamsaee made it 8-1 with another goal from distance, beating Khaled low and to his right.
“As I said yesterday, we don’t have enough experience in this kind of championships and we have five or six injured players,” said Al Khaleej coach Anwar Mohamed.
“Now we have had just six days' training, and today we played against the Iranian national team. So that’s why we had this result.”
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