Yasir Asani made Esteghlal the winner on his way to the dressing room

In the first half of the game against Al-Gharafa, the Esteghlal Iran football team managed to go to the dressing room with an easy goal by Yasir Asani.

According to Mehr reporter, Esteghlal football team of Iran and Al Gharafa of Qatar met in the second week of the group stage of the Asian Elite League on Monday evening, October 20, starting at 21:45 with the referee Alex King from Australia at Thani Bin Jassim Stadium in Doha. The first half of the game ended with a score of 1-0 in favor of Esteghlal. Yaser Asani Zanede was the only goal of the game.

Habib Farabbasi, Rostam Ashurmatov, Saman Fallah, Aref Agassi, Hossein Gudarzi, Saleh Hardani, Amirmohammed Razzakinia (32- Yaser Asani), Rozbe Cheshmi (yellow card), Jalaluddin Masharipov (yellow card), Ismail Qolizadeh and Saeed Sahrkhizan.

Ahmed Kaneh, Abdul Rahman Fayez al-Rashdi, Seydou Sano, Dami Traore, Ayoub Mohammad Al-Alawi, Saifuddin Hassan Fazlollah, Fabricio Diaz, Farjani Sassi, Yassin Brahimi, Adam Onas and Frank Magri.

In the first minutes of this match, the mistake of the Al-Gharafa players in sending a pass caused the ball to leave the field and be in the hands of the Esteghlals. Despite the majority of possession of the ball by the Blue Poshans, in the first five minutes, no dangerous situation was created on the Al-Gharafa goal, and the Qatari team players could not pose a serious threat on the Esteghlal goal either.

Esteghlal got a chance in the 11th minute on a corner kick. Jalaluddin Masharipov sent the ball to Al-Gharafa's goal and Saman Fallah aimed at this team's goal with a header, but the ball went out from the side of the goal.

In the 15th minute, the flow of the game was mostly followed in the middle of the field, and Al-Gharafa players repeatedly tried to stop the opponent's attacks by fouling Esteghlal players. Four minutes later, Yasin Brahimi approached Esteghlal's goal from the right and sent a cross pass to Magri, but Agassi sent the ball to the corner earlier than Al-Gharafa's striker.

Al-Gharafa had a chance to score on a corner kick in the 20th minute, but the header of this team's player went wide of Habib Farabbasi's goal. Five minutes later, Roozbe Cheshmi sent a long and deep pass to Saeed Saharkhaizan in a scoring position, but the timely departure of the Al-Gharafa goalkeeper prevented the ball from reaching Esteghlal's attacker.

In the 26th minute of this match, the collision of the Al-Gharafa player with Amir Mohammad Razzakinia caused the injury of the young midfielder of Esteghlal and the game was stopped for a few minutes. Razzakinia could not continue the game due to this injury and Yaser Asani entered the field as a substitute in the 32nd minute.

Asani, who had just entered the field, managed to open Al-Gharafa's goal with a beautiful shot on Saleh Hardani's pass in the 38th minute, so Esteghlal took the lead over the Qatari opponent with a goal scored by his own winger.

In the 45+3 minutes, Saeed Sahrkhizan was in a one-on-one situation with the Al-Gharafa goalkeeper on Yaser Asani's pass, but he managed to put the ball into the goal and Ahmed Kane blocked the ball away.

In the following, there were no chances on the goals until the game ended with a score of 1-0 in the first half.