The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel
Squad9 Nov 2026
Ahmad Moharrami is carrying Gostaresh Foulad
24 goals and a season average of 7.85. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Saman Hajsafi
37 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Gostaresh Foulad lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match7 Nov 2026
Nobody wants to play Gostaresh Foulad right now
9 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Match7 Nov 2026
Gostaresh Foulad tear Esteghlal Ahvaz apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against Esteghlal Ahvaz, and it could have been more.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A brace, and Ahmad Moharrami takes the afternoon — 9.53
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ahmad Moharrami provided it, and the 9.53 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Ahmad Moharrami 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
Gostaresh Foulad keep winning on the road
4 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A masterclass from Vouria Dejagah
Marked 8.81 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Alireza Noorafkan falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
In brief
- Player ratings Iliya Imani was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- Player ratings Alireza Ebrahimi runs at them all day
- Market Still no ink between Gostaresh Foulad and Ahmad Hajsafi