AFC Website Previews Sensitive Doha Clash; Praises Esteghlal and Warns Al-Gharafa

The AFC website's preview of the Esteghlal vs. Al-Gharafa match says the Qatari side will have a very difficult task at home against the Tehran Blues.

According to Sports Se, the official website of the Asian Football Confederation discussed the match between Qatar's Al-Gharafa and Iran's Esteghlal in a note. AFC says that the brilliance of Iranian blue-clad players in the first week of Li Nakhban is a big alarm for Qatar's representative. Especially considering that Esteghlal had humiliated another representative of Qatar in the first week of Li Ekhbegan.

Esteghlal and Al Gharafa will play tonight in the second week of the Asian Elite League at the Thani Bin Jassim Stadium in El Rayan. In the note of the AFC website, the Asian Confederation analyzes the situation of the two teams and says that Al-Gharafa should prepare itself to face Esteghlal, who are motivated and intoxicated by the victory of the first week. In the situation that Al-Gharafa started the tournament with a defeat, but the Iranian football representative has passed the first day with a decisive and brilliant victory.

The AFC website wrote about the conditions of the Qatari host that Al-Gharafa faced an extremely difficult draw in the first week and faced Al-Hilal of Saudi Arabia, the four-time champion of Asia, in the Kingdom Arena stadium, which ended with Al-Hilal winning two to one.

Although the final result of the game appeared to show that Al-Gharafa managed to overcome a close and close competition with Al-Hilal in the blue hell of the Kingdom Arena and lost with dignity, but the statistics of the game revealed the truth: Al-Gharafa only had a little more than 31% of the ball possession in that match and shot only three shots on target during the 90 minutes.

In the continuation of its note, the Asian Football Confederation warned Al-Gharafa that the yellow Qatari team must appear much sharper, more accurate and more authoritative than the previous game in order to stand up against Esteghlal, which is only stepping on the field with the goal of gaining another three points.

AFC concludes its note as follows: In the first step, Esteghlal presented a stunning and spectacular show and crushed the former champion of Asia with three goals in Basra International Stadium. Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh's students are now looking to show another spectacular game in this competition with the highest possible spirit and preparation.