Originally posted by peiman92
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In 2014, after not making it to the World Cup in 2010 cycle, the goal was to make it to the World Cup….not go to the WC and advance from the group. Sure that was a good stretch goal but it was not an expectation.
2018 WCQ’s was the easiest, smoothest WCQ campaign in our history. Beat rivals SK both times and topped the group in back to back campaigns. Never did we dominate another Asian giant the way we did SK by beating them 4 consecutive times….go look at our record vs any other Asian giant (Japan, KSA, Australia) we have never had an era where we continuously beat one of them and maintain the Home ranking for 6-7 years both in FIFA and actual WCQs.
if you looked at that 2018 group and told yourself Iran needs to advance no excuses….then again, you’re trolling or don’t understand the reality of Iranian footy and everything that comes with it.
as for 2022….again, if you can’t understand the most simple and basic realities of the situation that we were in and had it as an expectation to advance….same as above.
as for AC performances sure you can criticize him for 2019. I think it’s a bit harsh to bc at the end of the day, the players lost focus and were trying to argue with the ref rather than play the game. I guess some of that is on CQ, I can accept 2019 as his failure. But that failure doesn’t trump everything else above about the clear and obvious ways in which we progressed under him.
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