FIRST HALF:
I'm writing this as I watch the game, so I guess it goas according to the game unfolding.
- Under pressure from oman’s C team and we make a million mistakes, turn-overs, and give away balls! I shudder what they’d do against a decent team pressing up in our half!!
The midfield just incapable of having any effect on the movement of the team. They keep losing the ball and have buckled under the pressing pressure.
- Md. Nouri tried a lot of quick passing, but mostly ended up with Omanis (martin might want to re-think his outlook towards “quick passing at whatever the cost” ). Wonder if it is better to keep possession even if we keep it a moment longer OR give away possession but as long as we do a one-touch passing!! Hmmmm…. .
- Good goal poaching by meydavoudi. Shows he can think out of the box. Although it was against the run of play as Omanis were having the most pressure and came close to scoring against us earlier. And obviously it wasn’t through any team tactic or rehearsed move, for those ppl who love to credit the goal to ppl who don’t deserve.
- The team’s passing got slightly better after minute 30. And thankfully we don’t see a lot of lobbing or hoofing of the ball. But nowhere near enough given the poor quality of the opposition and what’s expected from an asia cup contender.
- Very uni-dimensional tactics, as usual. Hardly any variations in our moves. We get away with this becoz we constantly play weak, piss-poor teams that don’t capitalize on our massive weaknesses. Hence the false sense of security out of 6-7 consecutive wins (where we had only ONE decent opponent)
This could … hell, WILL create problems for us.
- The second goal ( if not totally the first goal) shd prove to the stubborn ghotbi that mirzapour is NOT suitable for TM. No matter how much ghotbi insists on it. Also our defense has been extremely weak . not only on this goal, but throughout the first half.
(seeing mirza in the camp while a massively talented and in form Gordan is overlooked reminds me of how TM suffers becoz its coaches are vindictive, cheap and lajbaaz fools )
- Beikzadeh has been abysmal and is definitely NOT the solution to the LB problem. Lots of bad passes and turn overs. He’s even worse than hajsafi.
All in all, a pathetic first half that underlined the team’s lack of tactics. so it is quite foolish and idiotic to rely on a bunch of score-lines against sh*tty opponents and think we're doing fine and the team's improving. it shows how foolish and naive we can be.
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- I’m totally against keeping GK’s as captains. Especially since usually refs allow only the caps to talk to them, keeping the cap rooted in one spot, denies our team of this. Sometimes, the cap can talk to the ref and defend his team. We cant expect the keeper to leave the goal and run up field to do this. So instead of stupidly giving the cap armband to the most capped or oldest player, it shd be given to those who have shown “LEADERSHIP” qualities.
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SECOND HALF :
Wow!
Md. Nouri really puts the icing on TM’s cake by getting the red card, when the team is behind!
- Ando’s goal was wonderful. Absolutely loved it. Especially since it was a long ranger. Something that we rarely see in TM. An individual effort nonetheless.
- Yet another mirza blunder! And still some ppl want to justify his inclusion by bringing up the “experience” card. Well … is THIS the experience you’re talking about? lol
- Back to the issue of captaincy. Becoz we don’t have a captain in-field, we see ando trying to object and speak to the ref (who’s been a moron in judgments) and this may end up with another yellow card for him … as he is NOT the captain who’s allowed to speak to the ref.
- With oladi coming in, our attacks have become a bit more purposeful. He hustles and is physically strong. And I think he is combining well with meydavoudi. Would love to see a two forward line up with these two. Will we ? or is ghotbi a one trick pony who’s capable of only ONE tactic & ONE formation ?
Nothing more to say about this pathetic game except all those little kids who got excited with a few meaningless results (since performance wise they've rarely been convincing at all) against pisspoor teams shd wake up and admit this team is going NOWHERE. It doesn’t have proper tactics, no teamwork, no variations … which all point towards the weakness of the coaching staff, who after a year still haven’t been able to implement a proper team tactic or style for the team.
I'm writing this as I watch the game, so I guess it goas according to the game unfolding.
- Under pressure from oman’s C team and we make a million mistakes, turn-overs, and give away balls! I shudder what they’d do against a decent team pressing up in our half!!
The midfield just incapable of having any effect on the movement of the team. They keep losing the ball and have buckled under the pressing pressure.
- Md. Nouri tried a lot of quick passing, but mostly ended up with Omanis (martin might want to re-think his outlook towards “quick passing at whatever the cost” ). Wonder if it is better to keep possession even if we keep it a moment longer OR give away possession but as long as we do a one-touch passing!! Hmmmm…. .
- Good goal poaching by meydavoudi. Shows he can think out of the box. Although it was against the run of play as Omanis were having the most pressure and came close to scoring against us earlier. And obviously it wasn’t through any team tactic or rehearsed move, for those ppl who love to credit the goal to ppl who don’t deserve.
- The team’s passing got slightly better after minute 30. And thankfully we don’t see a lot of lobbing or hoofing of the ball. But nowhere near enough given the poor quality of the opposition and what’s expected from an asia cup contender.
- Very uni-dimensional tactics, as usual. Hardly any variations in our moves. We get away with this becoz we constantly play weak, piss-poor teams that don’t capitalize on our massive weaknesses. Hence the false sense of security out of 6-7 consecutive wins (where we had only ONE decent opponent)
This could … hell, WILL create problems for us.
- The second goal ( if not totally the first goal) shd prove to the stubborn ghotbi that mirzapour is NOT suitable for TM. No matter how much ghotbi insists on it. Also our defense has been extremely weak . not only on this goal, but throughout the first half.
(seeing mirza in the camp while a massively talented and in form Gordan is overlooked reminds me of how TM suffers becoz its coaches are vindictive, cheap and lajbaaz fools )
- Beikzadeh has been abysmal and is definitely NOT the solution to the LB problem. Lots of bad passes and turn overs. He’s even worse than hajsafi.
All in all, a pathetic first half that underlined the team’s lack of tactics. so it is quite foolish and idiotic to rely on a bunch of score-lines against sh*tty opponents and think we're doing fine and the team's improving. it shows how foolish and naive we can be.
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- I’m totally against keeping GK’s as captains. Especially since usually refs allow only the caps to talk to them, keeping the cap rooted in one spot, denies our team of this. Sometimes, the cap can talk to the ref and defend his team. We cant expect the keeper to leave the goal and run up field to do this. So instead of stupidly giving the cap armband to the most capped or oldest player, it shd be given to those who have shown “LEADERSHIP” qualities.
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SECOND HALF :
Wow!
Md. Nouri really puts the icing on TM’s cake by getting the red card, when the team is behind!
- Ando’s goal was wonderful. Absolutely loved it. Especially since it was a long ranger. Something that we rarely see in TM. An individual effort nonetheless.
- Yet another mirza blunder! And still some ppl want to justify his inclusion by bringing up the “experience” card. Well … is THIS the experience you’re talking about? lol
- Back to the issue of captaincy. Becoz we don’t have a captain in-field, we see ando trying to object and speak to the ref (who’s been a moron in judgments) and this may end up with another yellow card for him … as he is NOT the captain who’s allowed to speak to the ref.
- With oladi coming in, our attacks have become a bit more purposeful. He hustles and is physically strong. And I think he is combining well with meydavoudi. Would love to see a two forward line up with these two. Will we ? or is ghotbi a one trick pony who’s capable of only ONE tactic & ONE formation ?
Nothing more to say about this pathetic game except all those little kids who got excited with a few meaningless results (since performance wise they've rarely been convincing at all) against pisspoor teams shd wake up and admit this team is going NOWHERE. It doesn’t have proper tactics, no teamwork, no variations … which all point towards the weakness of the coaching staff, who after a year still haven’t been able to implement a proper team tactic or style for the team.
Doc, by the way today there was no Mobali-Aghili factor to score goals for Iran, that was a big change.
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