According to "Varzesh3", the Golden Wearers, who had been on a successful run in recent weeks and, after three consecutive wins, were held in their latest match against Shams Azar Qazvin, today at Naqsh-e Jahan Stadium in Isfahan had a brilliant half against Mes Shahr-e Babak, took a 3-0 lead and went into the dressing room in high spirits.
Mes Shahr-e Babak were reduced to 10 men in the 9th minute by Mohammadreza Raoofi-Manesh's red card for a foul on Abbas Habibi, and after that, Sepahan scored three goals through Mehdi Limuchi, Kasra Taheri and Omid Noorafkan, to already put their minds at ease about taking the three points.
Week 10 of the Premier League
Stadium: Naqsh-e Jahan, Isfahan
Referee: Shahab Mohammadi / Assistants: Amin Zahedi and Saeed Mohammadi / Fourth official: Milad Kohzadi / VAR referee and assistant: Mohammadreza Tarekh and Reyhaneh Shirazi. Refereeing observer: Hossein Nejati.
Sepahan Isfahan
Seyed Hossein Hosseini, Mohammadamin Hezbavi, Hadi Mohammadi, Ehsan Hajsafi, Omid Noorafkan, Aref Haji-Eidi, Arash Rezavand, Abbas Habibi, Mohammadmehdi Lotfi, Mehdi Limuchi and Kasra Taheri
Head coach: Moharram Navidkia
Mes Shahr-e Babak
Mohammadreza Ghavidel, Mohammad Azhir, Mehdi Mohammadi, Mohammadali Abdollahi, Akbar Karbalaei, Mohammadreza Raoofi-Manesh, Alireza Enayatzadeh, Majid Tajik, Mojtaba Hashemi-Nasab, Mohammadjavad Pouravaz and Alireza Valizadeh
Head coach: Ghasem Shahba
Yellow card
Mes Shahr-e Babak: Alireza Valizadeh (25)
Red card
Mes Shahr-e Babak: Mohammadreza Raoofi-Manesh (9)
Goal descriptions
Sepahan 1 – Mes Shahr-e Babak 0 (12th minute: Mehdi Limuchi): Noorafkan's long pass from the right side of midfield came behind the Mes defenders, and Ehsan Hajsafi, after a quick escape, passed to Mehdi Limuchi, who scored the first goal of the match with a precise side-foot shot.
Sepahan 2 – Mes Shahr-e Babak 0 (14th minute: Kasra Taheri): Aref Haji-Eidi's forward pass was delivered by Mohammadmehdi Lotfi to Arash Rezavand, whose cut-back reached Lotfi again, and this time his backward pass was converted by Kasra Taheri without a pause and with a ground shot into a goal.
Sepahan 3 – Mes Shahr-e Babak 0 (32nd minute: Omid Noorafkan): A chance Limuchi had created and the Mes defenders had cleared fell to Noorafkan outside the penalty area, and he, after deceiving the player in front of him and shooting powerfully on the instep, sent the ball into the corner of the goal to make it 3-0 with this exceptional goal.
Key moments
6th minute: Raoofi-Manesh's harsh tackle in midfield on Abbas Habibi's pass brought the young Sepahan midfielder down, and the referee, after stopping play and reviewing the incident, decided to send off the Mes Shahr-e Babak midfielder.
10th minute: Hajsafi got the ball inside the penalty area, and his powerful left-foot shot was turned behind for a corner by Ghavidel.
17th minute: Noorafkan's cross and Kasra Taheri's header in front of the far post reached Haji-Eidi, whose shot hit the side netting of the goal.
23rd minute: Mohammadmehdi Lotfi's technical left-foot shot, after deflecting off a Mes defender, went out just over the goal.
23rd minute: Lotfi's beautiful cut-back reached Hajsafi, whose shot, the Sepahan captain's, from outside the penalty area went over the goal.
27th minute: Hashemi-Nasab's cross from the right and Valizadeh's header were repelled by Hossein Hosseini with a fine reaction.
32nd minute: Mehdi Lotfi's long-range shot was gathered with difficulty by Ghavidel in two stages.
37th minute: Hezbavi's powerful shot toward goal led to a corner being awarded.
38th minute: Noorafkan's cross and Kasra Taheri's header settled in Ghavidel's hands.
43rd minute: Noorafkan's feint and cross were accompanied by Rezavand's header, but this time the ball went out.
44th minute: Limuchi's through pass, Hajsafi's escape down the left flank and Kasra Taheri's header struck a Mes defender and were cleared.
45+2nd minute: Mehrshad Abdollahi's shot from outside the penalty area went well over Sepahan's goal and out.
45+3rd minute: Limuchi threatened again with an escape down the left, but this time his sliding dribble and left-foot shot were returned by Ghavidel from a tight angle.
45+4th minute: Noorafkan's pass behind the penalty area was hit by Habibi with a shot under the ball and sent out.
Source: Varzesh3
