PLDC - In the 6th week of the Iranian Professional League, Esteghlal Tehran
faced Foolad Khouzestan, on Sunday, 8/12/2002, and drew with the result of 0-0. After the match, Faraz Fatemi, Esteghlal striker
commented, “I am really upset because we could not score no matter how hard we tried.
We played well at all times and increased the pressure in the last 20 minutes.”
“We could not score even one goal at home in front of Esteghlal fans. Foolad defended well and Mirzapour, Foolad goalkeeper, was very
effective. Esteghlal did not perform well. The Takhti field prevented us from
playing a nice game and the center of pitch is so bad you cannot play there. We were forced to move up from the wings which were blocked by the
Foolad players.”
“We will hopefully play better in the next matches on better pitches.”