The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel
Match5 Sep 2026
Gostaresh Foulad taken apart
1‑4 to Sepahan, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A one-man rearguard from Alireza Nazi
There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match2 Sep 2026
Gostaresh Foulad out of the cup
Persepolis ended it 2‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A brace, and Ashkan Hajsafi takes the afternoon — 8.62
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ashkan Hajsafi provided it, and the 8.62 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market7 Sep 2026
Ehsan Dejagah asks to leave Gostaresh Foulad
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Gostaresh Foulad training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Majid Dejagah is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad7 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Yudai Tanaka
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yudai Tanaka, and the manager let it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Ali Jahanbakhsh
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Mohammad Reza Khosravi in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gostaresh Foulad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
- Boardroom Doors closed at Gostaresh Foulad
- Market Esteghlal Khuzestan are about to pick up the phone
- Player ratings The pass was always on for Milad Gholizadeh