Iran vs. England match thread

[Keshwardoost]

Next game: Iran vs England in 19 hours 😀

[orbicular]

Good. This mentality falls right into CQ's trap.

Yes, that's what Lalas often does--express effusive praise for the U.S. team but trivialize the opposition without offering a shred of evidence or analysis.
On another unrelated topic, Ecuador's aerial superiority made me wonder if Queiroz has effective ways of countering England's air dominance. Iran is clearly a much better defensive team than Qatar, but England, along with Germany, has unmatched aerial prowess.

[Ghermez Agha]

Alexi Lalas talking crap this morning before the opener (as usual) saying the US is better than Iran and Wales and he expects the US to come out of this group. The blind hubris based on absolutely no data is quite a marvel. Hope we can make him eat his words. May still be sore from 1998 though (where he rode the bench against Iran), lol.

I caught that too and it made me laugh. It’s the arrogance and ignorance that we want from USA fans and media…..they haven’t learned their lesson from 2018 WCQs

[persiangodfather]

Englands squad net worth: 1.3 Billion
Irans Squad Net worth 56.5 Mil

English Premier league Net worth 2.5 Billion
Iranian Domestic League Net worth... 116 million

England- a free democracy where people are allowed to progess regardless of age, race, ethnicity, religious belief or sexual orientation

Iran, Currently killing women and children to save their own spine

we are the under dogs

[Abtin]

Any new videos of the team? Varzesh3 has been so bad at covering this, they used to put videos out of everything the team does... And where to find pics? Federation website has also been bad. Please help bacheha... 😫

[a_m]

Alexis lalas is the biggest most obnoxious arrogant, ignorant, I would even say comes off as a racist type of person on tv ,,, that why USA. Soccer can’t improved and need to have 9 foreign born players ,,,, I hope he eats his words …. I know he will

[Equalizer]

Alexis lalas is the biggest most obnoxious arrogant, ignorant, I would even say comes off as a racist type of person on tv ,,, that why USA. Soccer can’t improved and need to have 9 foreign born players ,,,, I hope he eats his words …. I know he will

He always does! I can't fathom why he's a fixture in these programs; perhaps due to some affirmative action category that protects talentless gingers with Greek ancestry.

[diz]

[diz]

England to take a knee before kick off (BLM) and wear rainbow armband. Southgate specifically said it’s not in connection to Iran protests

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sp...an-2022-11-20/

[Prowess]

I just watched the Qatar Ecuador highlights. This is PRECISELY why CQ employs such a methodical approach with Iran. Qatar showed poor defensive tactics and played like it was friendly…maybe a bit hubris on their part?

I can imagine if we had played Ecuador, we would not give up 2 goals like that. Obviously England is stronger, but we will be defensively stout. Taremi & ARJ will pounce on defensive errors.

[diz]

Our boy is there! Enjoy!

[Abtin]

England to take a knee before kick off (BLM) and wear rainbow armband. Southgate specifically said it’s not in connection to Iran protests

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sp...an-2022-11-20/

"Kane, along with the captains of the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and Wales, will wear the One Love armband on Monday." Yeah Norway and Sweden, 2 of the best teams in this world cup 😂👏

[diz]

Gareth Southgate has confirmed that James Maddison and Kyle Walker are not available for England’s opening World Cup game against Iran

[diz]

Interestingly, Kane may be booked immediately at kickoff as FIFA has banned the rainbow armband and Qatar has explicitly banned the rainbow flag (homosexuality is illegal in Qatar). Or they may just let it slide as it would be a PR nightmare for Qatar to bring more attention to this

[Essi]

Our boy is there! Enjoy!

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