The Tractor Courier
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Domagoj Drožđek
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Tractor
Amir Hossein Hosseinzadeh was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 465% of everything Tractor earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Alireza Beiranvand
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Nothing got past Aleksandar Sedlar
19 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Home is on Facundo Milán's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Tractor are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Radek Šiler keeps on missing
Shots: 19, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Igor Postonjski was the difference for Tractor
Marked 7.82. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Saleh Al-Shehri has had enough of the bench
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Tractor will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
In brief
- Match No goals between Tractor and Esteghlal Ahvaz
- Market Seyed Mehdi Hosseini linked with a move away