Costa Rica post match ratings and comments

[khabalood]

Mohammadi - 7 He was solid enough when called upon
Hosseini - 10 A dominant performance, where he hardly put a wrong foot
Aghili - 9 Excellent, but not dominating
Kaebi - 7.5 Good tackles and run up the right. He is clearly the best rw we have at the moment. Also looked tidy in defense.
Nikbakht - 6.5
Zare - 5.5
Madanchi - 5.5
Kazemian - 6
Mobali - 7 needs to improve his passing and shooting accuracy
Karimi - 8
Samereh - 4 horrible game by him. Easily our poorest player.

Subs:
Shojaei - 6
Meidavoodi - 7.5
Khalili - 5
Jabbari - n/a
Shakouri - n/a

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This team needs to shoot the ball. All the possession in the world won't do any good if they can't get the ball on target. If I was the coach all offensive players would be on shooting practice, tomorrow. Meidavoodi was the best striker on the field. His movement, aggression, and shooting was far superior to the rest of the team. He is in desperate need of a partner up front who can capitalize on rebounds though. Zare's position is unnecessary against asian opposition, and the team should be able to make due without a defensive midfielder. This would allow for another striker (ideally Amraei) to play beside Meidavoodi. Kaebi was by far the best player on the right side today. He was better at passing, carrying the ball and dribbling passed opponents. Shojaei seemed uncomfortable on the right, and Kazemian was slow, not making much of an impact other than a couple crosses. Nouri should be given a chance at the lb position, and Nikbakht was the best player in the squad for the lw position. Aghili and Hosseini, were great and no changes are necessary here. Nosrati should by no means take either of their spots as human afazeli suggests.

[Ali Chicago]

I think your marks are very generous for teh most part. Our defense from what I recall didn't have a solid sustained pressure on. So I don't see you give 10 and 9 to our central defenders.

Nikki lost a whole bunch of balls in defense. True he was good in offense but he was horrible for the most part in defense except one good tackle he did in the first half.

Again, I think your marks are very generous. Our team played one good half (first half). Second half was even if you ask me.

[ardi11]

khabalood jan i think you overrated nikbakht

[khabalood]

Nikbakht was horrible in defense but he did well offensively, so I couldn't give him a really low mark. Also, I didn't see our cb's making any mistakes so I could not penalize them, even if the opposition was not the best. I don't think its fair to deduct marks because the opposition is not world class.

[yashar_fasihnia]

i guess im too strict, i think hardly any of our players deserve more than a 6 specially cos of their lack of fitness which seems to be an everlasting issue in TM!!!

mohammadi - 6 (didnt get tested really but did wat he had to do, but didnt have very good goal kicks)
aghilli - 6 (good defending, but as usual, his long balls piss me off)
hosseini - 6 (was not in the right position a few times)
kaabi - 3 (our poorest player today for 90 minutes. nothing in offense or defense)
nikbakht - 4 (new position for him, did ok in offense, poor in defense)
zare - 5 (needs to be more engaged and win more battles and tackles)
mobali - 5 (non existent first half, architect of team second half)
karimi - 5 (non existent second half, architect of team first half)
kazemian - 3 (didnt offer anything in his 45 minutes)
madanchi - 5 (made a few good runs here and there)
samereh - 7 (had he scored, i would have given him a 9. worked hard being all alone uptop and created chances for himself well)
shojaei - 3 (didnt offer anything either in his 45 minutes. 6 minutes of jabbari was more productive than 45 minutes of shojaei in this game)
khalili - 3 (hardly created any chance for himself and wasted the 2 chances he had)
meydavoudi - 5 (did pretty good, however, besides those 2 shots which atleast he created himself, didnt do anything else)

shakouri, jabbari, asadi didnt play enough.

average rating of an iranian player today 66/14 = 4.7! wat do u guys think?? too harsh??

[khabalood]

I definitely think you are being too harsh on Kaebi, while giving Samareh to high a mark. Samareh could barely hit the net despite numerous chances.

[yashar_fasihnia]

yes but considering he was the lone striker upfront and he did even run all the way to midfield in times of defense, i think he covered a lot of area and inspite of that, created some good chances.
i would have given him a 9 if he had scored. u give aghilli and hosseini 9 and 10 but samereh a 4 for not scoring. so had he converted 1 or 2 of those chances, may i ask how much would u have given him?? atleast a 7 or an 8?? i dont think 4 points should be deducted just cos he didnt score
remember, this is samerehs return to TM after so long and he can be given the benefit of the doubt for adjusting.


but kaabi with so many TM games and 2 poor displays (against hansa rostock as well) makes me more confident in giving him a lower grade. he hardly made any positive impact considering he is the best full back we should be having in iran right now. his defensive duties werent any better.

but anywayz, this is my opinion. thanx for the comment

[khabalood]

Had Samareh scored I would have given him an 8. Three goals would get him a 9, and converting all his opportunities a 10. Unfortunately he couldn't even get a shot on target, unless you count side netting. So an embarrassing performance gets an embarrassing mark. Had he gotten some shots on net I would consider a 6 or 7.

What was wrong with Kaebi's defensive duties? I don't think a single player got passed him. He also helped the team offensively and won a few one one ones.

Thanks for your comment as well.

[yashar_fasihnia]

ur welcome

samereh had 2 shots on target i think, or was it 3?
the clearest one was the one he made a run and got a ball behind the defender and took a shot which the GK sent to corner from the right side.

he also had another shot which he initially passed to karimi i think outside the penalty area but the defender blocked it and while moving for a 1-2 with karimi, samereh saw the defender clear the pass and very intelligently and swiftly took the ball again with his right foot and took another shot which againt the GK sent to corner.

he missed an open net with his left foot which was embarassing and his 2 headers went over the net i think, both frankly, in difficult position cos the first one was with the behind of his head in the beginning of the game and the second was a bit too high for him and the defender also pressurized him by jumping with him.

i think all the running, midfield battling, chance creation and even taking shots considering he didnt even have a real striking partner upfront is worth more than a 4 in my opinion.

as for kaabi, this weak costa rican side made a few attacks from kaabis side where kaabi was left behind. this kaabi wasnt the same kaabi from the worldcup who even christiano ronaldo found it difficult to pass from.
and his offense, how many of his classical fullback runs did he make? hardly 1 or 2, the most clear one being the pass jabbari sent him in the end which resulted in the corner. his passings werent that great and he hardly took any crosses.

i saw nothing of kaabi in either this game or the hansa rostock game. he didnt seem like the talented 50+ caps kaabi we had seen before his move to england. hope he can come back to his old days.

[khabalood]

were any of Samareh's shots on target within the first 15 minutes? If so I may have to review my tape later because I missed those few minutes.

Kaebi had a few good runs down the right, which was better than any other rw did today. And unlike Nikbakht (who was far worse overall) he was able to cut out the oppositions attacks even if he wasn't sensational. He wasn't great but he was far from our poorest player.

[yashar_fasihnia]

i agree, nikbakht, shojaei or kazemian werent any better than kaabi and hence the same score nikbakht a 4 cos he had a few good moments of attack but feel free to give him a 3 as well, his attacks didnt do much anyway

samerehs shots on target, the ones i talked about, i think they were after the 15th minute.
the first 10 minutes, we were all attack. 10-15, we didnt do anything.

[Dubxl152]

i agree, nikbakht, shojaei or kazemian werent any better than kaabi and hence the same score nikbakht a 4 cos he had a few good moments of attack but feel free to give him a 3 as well, his attacks didnt do much anyway
samerehs shots on target, the ones i talked about, i think they were after the 15th minute.
the first 10 minutes, we were all attack. 10-15, we didnt do anything.

I honestly believe that once Samereh gets some confidence he will become a very good striker for TM. I don't understand the logic of not bringing on Rajabzadeh. I feel that Khabalood & Yashar jans ratings are a bit exaggerated ( with all due respect) i think if you pick a balance between their two ratings posts it would be spot on.

Nikbakt hasn't been very good in a long time..... and wasn't he banned for doping not too long ago? Shojaei isn't close to having the maturity to Handel a full time starting position and Kazemian just came back from injury (i personally don't care much for him) but i attribute his performance to the lack of playing time due to injury.

[Ali Chicago]

Nikbakht was horrible in defense but he did well offensively, so I couldn't give him a really low mark. Also, I didn't see our cb's making any mistakes so I could not penalize them, even if the opposition was not the best. I don't think its fair to deduct marks because the opposition is not world class.

But defense main job is to defend. If the opposition wasn't strong enough to pressure our team, at best our defense should get a 7 out of 10, since they didnt' do anything spectacular. To me if our defense could withstand a team like Portugal under than knid of pressure then our defenders desreve a 10. Our offence hasn't scored for 4 games. Giving such a high marks to a team that hasn't scored in 4 games and its record in the last 4 games is 0-2-2, I think is going easy on them.

Kazemian, Shojai and Kaabi underperoformed. Mobali was weak too, but I am easy on him, since he was playing as somewhat of a defensive midfielder (although not as defensive as Zare) in a 4-2-3-1 next to Zare. This is a totally new to Mobali. I was expecting much more from Madanchi based on him being the best goal scorer fo the UAE league. The rest were pretty average if you ask me. The only bright spot was the play making role of Karimi and he did a very good job. His passes to Madanchi, Khalili were just out of this world. Too bad those guys didn't take advantage of them.

I hope Mr. Ebrahimzadeh thinks about our LB. Nikbakht isn't the guy for that position. It is amazing to see a player in his caliber being a LB, loosing the ball on a dribble to opposition and not even following the offensive player who took his ball (kind of jogging back very lightly). If only Nikbakht was smarter and had a different attitude the sky was the limit.

I was very surprised to see Iran playing with only one forward (Samereh). Playing at home with only one forward against a weaker team?!!! Would be nice if Mr. Ebrahimzadeh talks about the logic of his line up.

[yashar_fasihnia]

I honestly believe that once Samereh gets some confidence he will become a very good striker for TM. I don't understand the logic of not bringing on Rajabzadeh. I feel that Khabalood & Yashar jans ratings are a bit exaggerated ( with all due respect) i think if you pick a balance between their two ratings posts it would be spot on.
Nikbakt hasn't been very good in a long time..... and wasn't he banned for doping not too long ago? Shojaei isn't close to having the maturity to Handel a full time starting position and Kazemian just came back from injury (i personally don't care much for him) but i attribute his performance to the lack of playing time due to injury.

rajabzadeh wasnt available for this game. he will be available for the syria game though.

i too agree, looking at the current options, samereh needs a few more games to atleast help our offense line better than the other strikers.

P.S. i still dont know ur name dadash, nor do i know khabalood's

[khabalood]

But defense main job is to defend. If the opposition wasn't strong enough to pressure our team, at best our defense should get a 7 out of 10, since they didnt' do anything spectacular. To me if our defense could withstand a team like Portugal under than knid of pressure then our defenders desreve a 10.

You make alot of assumptions in your system, such as the opposition's strength relative to our teams strength. In my system I give all the players 10 and deduct points based on mistakes and poor play, or lack of play.