Esteghlal's Big Wasted Chance: / Saleh Hardani Lacked Clear Thinking!

In extra time, Esteghlal had the chance to beat Al-Gharafa 3-0, as they did to Al-Sadd, but Hardani's and Eslami's final passes lacked sufficient precision.

According to Sport Se, one of the strangest scenes of the match between Esteghlal and Al-Gharafa was in the final minutes when two Esteghlal players were on the halfway line in a position where they could go one-on-one with the goalkeeper of this Qatari team at a strange distance and score the third goal so that the Blues beat two Qatari opponents with three goals in a row, but Saleh Hardani, who had many ups and downs until that moment and had a difficult day on the right side of the field, made the strangest possible decision. Got it!

After the ball was deflected from the defense and came towards him, Hardani hit the ball hard, which caused him to distance himself from the two Esteghlal attackers and reach the only player present in the half of Gharafa, which is the goalkeeper of this team. However, if he had sent the ball to the half with less intensity, two Esteghlal players, one of whom was Alireza Koshki, would have been in a two-on-one situation with the goalkeeper.

The importance of this position increases when the blue winger is under the pressure of failing to score these days, it is likely that if this ball was under the feet of any of Esteghlal's players and there was a scoring condition, Koshki would have been in a position to break this spell and another player of this team would be ready to continue the season's matches with better conditions.

In addition to this situation, on another counterattack, Mohammad Hossein Eslami, after carrying a long ball from the middle of the field, was in a position to pass the ball to Kushki or Saharkhaizan, who hit the ball as calmly as possible towards the goal, so that these two Esteghlal attackers missed a full-fledged scoring opportunity due to the lack of accuracy of their teammates.