The Rah Ahan Herald
Squad4 Jan 2027
Alireza Pouraliganji is carrying Rah Ahan
28 goals and a season average of 7.66. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Ehsan Hajsafi runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market4 Jan 2027
Persepolis come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Rah Ahan did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Alireza Pouraliganji scores twice — 8.72
Two goals and a mark of 8.72 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Shahriar Rezaeian: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Rah Ahan have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Amir Reza Jeddi is a medical away from Rah Ahan
The deal with Sepahan is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Ehsan Hajsafi 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 Rah Ahan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match2 Jan 2027
Rah Ahan see off Esteghlal Khuzestan
Three points for Rah Ahan, 2‑0 the final word against Esteghlal Khuzestan in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Reza Taremi was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.04. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
In brief
- Squad Majid Taremi named in the team of the month
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- The dugout When it matters, Ehsan Hajsafi plays