FIRST HALF -
-- Ansarifard is still the wasteful striker we’ve seen him in the past few months (omid team and TM). Missing sitters is totally unacceptable. Even his goal was the result of TWO defenders failing to even touch the ball!!
No wonder he chose not to go to Europe. He is clearly not ready to compete at that level and ought to learn the basics of football.
-- Impressive Hadadifar with his runs, passing and shots (a strong one was blocked by ansarifard!!)
-- Maldives is proving a very physically weak and light-weight team. They fall down and get injured with the lightest of nudges! This makes our mere 1-0 lead a very depressing thing to think about.
-- Pouladi is showing very unsure and unfamiliar with the LB duties. And this is against a very weak team. I shudder to imagine what he’ll do against asia’s decent teams
-- After minute 20, our quality fell drastically. And on some occasion it was them PRESSING US IN OUR OWN HALF!!!!!!! So much that we had to resort to pass backs to the keeper and eventually lose the ball or be forced to kick it out!!!!! This happened on more than one occasion! This is DISGRACEFUL!
-- would love to see if anyone think hadi nowroozi deserves to be starting at TM.
I dare say even karimi doesnt deserve to start if he keeps this level of performance
The first half was a continuation of our poor game against Madagascar.
SECOND HALF (or better known as “the khalatbari show”)-
-- First time I’m seeing an Asian ref punish time wasting with a yellow. Khoob shod ma in ro didim ghabl az mordan
-- Until very late in the game (min 80 or so) I didn’t see much urgency among our players, except khalatbari who was a livewire and ran riot with shots, dribbles, passing, chips and … yes, HEADERS. He deserved to get a goal (much more than the low performing ansarifard)
-- Which brings me to the second goal that was quite ridiculous. After wasting chance after chance, ansarifard had to employ the assistance of a Maldivian player to kick his shin which would ricochet into the goal for his second goal! this doesn’t take away from his poor performance though. He was absent from the game and disappeared after minute 20 of first half till late into the second! Very disappointing.
-- Speaking of disappointing, it took CQ more than 83 minutes to finally realize how useless hadi nowroozi was! (and to think he dropped the IPL top goal scorer, it just makes this even more disappointing and ridiculous). This issue becomes more vivid as we see daghighi’s mere 10 minutes resulted in a goal and a few assists and nice touches which is more than what we can say for hadi nowroozi’s past 2 games combined.
-- Lol at irib after the 2nd goal, showing a scoreline of 3-0 with TWO goals named next to it!! Pathetic!
-- But even more laughable was the maldivians’ play acting and time wasting tactics which bordered on slapstick style of Harold Lloyd or Laurel & Hardy antics. Most hilarious.
They ought to watch some Persian gulf players to learn how to do it.
-- I know many may not like what I am saying, but the karimi that I see these days, is not suitable to start a game with. he did a lot of stuff in the final 30-40 minutes of the game and I still am of the belief that he can be used as an impact player coming off the bench. everything points to this. his age is the main thing. and his playing style and trickery is best suited against tired legs of opponents who've run around for at least 60-65 minutes.
bottomline-- We won 4-0 and wasted at least 5 more. The team looked slow and lethargic. Often didn’t know what to do. There was no urgency among most players and that is a worry.
This is not enough and we cant rely on such performance against asia’s top teams. this shd be a great worry for CQ. Beside his method of selection (overall as well as the starting line ups).
my humble recommendation for the return leg (since we have it in the bag. surely CQ cant be this scared and cautious):
give a chance to the subs and younger players who still have the DRIVE, HUNGER & AMBITION to get the job done. players like afshin, reza nowroozi, daghighi, oladi, mahini, haghighi, and yes, ansarifard too (he shd get his head out of his arse eventually), ... basically the reserves and subs.
surely they cant play a game of football with LESS URGENCY than the present starting line-up. I mean it is not very possible, even if they want to.
I am sure CQ will discover a totally different team and performance
-- Ansarifard is still the wasteful striker we’ve seen him in the past few months (omid team and TM). Missing sitters is totally unacceptable. Even his goal was the result of TWO defenders failing to even touch the ball!!
No wonder he chose not to go to Europe. He is clearly not ready to compete at that level and ought to learn the basics of football.
-- Impressive Hadadifar with his runs, passing and shots (a strong one was blocked by ansarifard!!)
-- Maldives is proving a very physically weak and light-weight team. They fall down and get injured with the lightest of nudges! This makes our mere 1-0 lead a very depressing thing to think about.
-- Pouladi is showing very unsure and unfamiliar with the LB duties. And this is against a very weak team. I shudder to imagine what he’ll do against asia’s decent teams
-- After minute 20, our quality fell drastically. And on some occasion it was them PRESSING US IN OUR OWN HALF!!!!!!! So much that we had to resort to pass backs to the keeper and eventually lose the ball or be forced to kick it out!!!!! This happened on more than one occasion! This is DISGRACEFUL!
-- would love to see if anyone think hadi nowroozi deserves to be starting at TM.
I dare say even karimi doesnt deserve to start if he keeps this level of performance
The first half was a continuation of our poor game against Madagascar.
SECOND HALF (or better known as “the khalatbari show”)-
-- First time I’m seeing an Asian ref punish time wasting with a yellow. Khoob shod ma in ro didim ghabl az mordan
-- Until very late in the game (min 80 or so) I didn’t see much urgency among our players, except khalatbari who was a livewire and ran riot with shots, dribbles, passing, chips and … yes, HEADERS. He deserved to get a goal (much more than the low performing ansarifard)
-- Which brings me to the second goal that was quite ridiculous. After wasting chance after chance, ansarifard had to employ the assistance of a Maldivian player to kick his shin which would ricochet into the goal for his second goal! this doesn’t take away from his poor performance though. He was absent from the game and disappeared after minute 20 of first half till late into the second! Very disappointing.
-- Speaking of disappointing, it took CQ more than 83 minutes to finally realize how useless hadi nowroozi was! (and to think he dropped the IPL top goal scorer, it just makes this even more disappointing and ridiculous). This issue becomes more vivid as we see daghighi’s mere 10 minutes resulted in a goal and a few assists and nice touches which is more than what we can say for hadi nowroozi’s past 2 games combined.
-- Lol at irib after the 2nd goal, showing a scoreline of 3-0 with TWO goals named next to it!! Pathetic!
-- But even more laughable was the maldivians’ play acting and time wasting tactics which bordered on slapstick style of Harold Lloyd or Laurel & Hardy antics. Most hilarious.
They ought to watch some Persian gulf players to learn how to do it.
-- I know many may not like what I am saying, but the karimi that I see these days, is not suitable to start a game with. he did a lot of stuff in the final 30-40 minutes of the game and I still am of the belief that he can be used as an impact player coming off the bench. everything points to this. his age is the main thing. and his playing style and trickery is best suited against tired legs of opponents who've run around for at least 60-65 minutes.
bottomline-- We won 4-0 and wasted at least 5 more. The team looked slow and lethargic. Often didn’t know what to do. There was no urgency among most players and that is a worry.
This is not enough and we cant rely on such performance against asia’s top teams. this shd be a great worry for CQ. Beside his method of selection (overall as well as the starting line ups).
my humble recommendation for the return leg (since we have it in the bag. surely CQ cant be this scared and cautious):
give a chance to the subs and younger players who still have the DRIVE, HUNGER & AMBITION to get the job done. players like afshin, reza nowroozi, daghighi, oladi, mahini, haghighi, and yes, ansarifard too (he shd get his head out of his arse eventually), ... basically the reserves and subs.
surely they cant play a game of football with LESS URGENCY than the present starting line-up. I mean it is not very possible, even if they want to.
I am sure CQ will discover a totally different team and performance
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