Iran vs. Japan - [Match Thread] | Asian Cup 2023 | Saturday, February 3rd |

[Under Lahaf]

GN first coach to score against Japan in the Asia cup, first win. Come back a goal down, make zero subs, doesn’t play Gholizadeh or Ghaedi, no Taremi, gassed Azmoun stays on. And Mohebi and Jahanbaksh score, with a penalty won by Kanaani IQ

The entire team kept the pressure up! I was expecting pull backs but they kept pressuring and pushing ahough I was worried about players getting carded.

[Rezzy]

anyone else looking at tickets for qatar looool this buzz is crazy what a day

[Karimi 8]

Sardar’s goal Though. He absolutely destroyed the Lb’s alresdy fragile confidence

[k_hamidya]

GN first coach to score against Japan in the Asia cup, first win. Come back a goal down, make zero subs, doesn’t play Gholizadeh or Ghaedi, no Taremi, gassed Azmoun stays on. And Mohebi and Jahanbaksh score, with a penalty won by Kanaani IQ

The only negative about this match is that GN is here to stay 😭😭

[IranPuma]

anyone else looking at tickets for qatar looool this buzz is crazy what a day

actually yes, where do we look lol

[Golefarsi]

The only negative about this match is that GN is here to stay 😭😭

We did not go out there with a chicken shit aproach like CQ. A overpaid foregin coach would not have got better results than this. Better to do it with a vatani coach. If he gets us the results then we have to support him.

[OFFSIDE_1]

officiating in this game was atrocious. 2 obvious calls when they should have gone to VAR and they don't, and the one time when they should not have gone to the VAR, they did. The ref on the field was ok, but the officials behind the booth were clearly favoring Japan.

[Ardalan]

Sardar’s goal Though. He absolutely destroyed the Lb’s alresdy fragile confidence

Shayad 5 centimetr offside bood. Afsoos.

Son tanha mohaajemi ast ke az Sardar va Taremi behtare dar Asia.

Masaleye Sardar masdomiyate, hamin.

[shayan_esteghlali]

anyone else looking at tickets for qatar looool this buzz is crazy what a day

Lets go, we need to fill the stadium, share if you find a good place to buy tickets

[FeLFeL]

That second half of football was one of the best I have ever seen from us. Azmoun was a beast.

Azmoun might just top the list in our roster even above Mehdi and along with Ghoddos as far as overall quality as a player - That's why you let him go through his motions and make his mistakes, it's part of his methodology and approach to the game. He reminds me a lot of Ibrahimović from that respect, you might just think he's fucking off and walking around for 40 minutes, but he's always going to seize the moment when it matters

[Ardalan]

We did not go out there with a chicken shit aproach like CQ. A overpaid foregin coach would not have got better results than this. Better to do it with a vatani coach. If he gets us the results then we have to support him.

30 saale harfe bartarie morrabie mihani ast.

Injoori ham nist, agar sarmayegozaarie dorost o hesaabi koni dar footbaalet morrabbihaaye darje yeke farangi ham miyaari va az GN behtar kaar mikone.
Be har haal, dar in baazi dastesh dard nakone.

[Rezzy]

actually yes, where do we look lol

viagogo showing tickets for 150usd for semis but idk how youll get a haya card( as youll need it to get in the stadium). i think the afc23 website is cheaper but the queue is long

[Karimi 8]

officiating in this game was atrocious. 2 obvious calls when they should have gone to VAR and they don't, and the one time when they should not have gone to the VAR, they did. The ref on the field was ok, but the officials behind the booth were clearly favoring Japan.

The ref on the field was great bro, literally let the game have a natural run of play which gave us momentum. We could’ve had multiple yellows. But VAR on the other hand, fuck behesh

[zereshk-ali]

Wow! Tabrik be hamegi!

To a man we were superb today. Apart from their goal (sloppy tracking from Saeed and a couple of poor, missed tackles) we were totally comfortable.

A few thoughts:

1) Credit to the superb tactics and set up from GN. Fair play to him; he is flexible and the decision to move to midfield 3 was thankfully made.

2) ARJ had one of his best games for us, both in and out of possession and alongside Mohebbi, the tactic to overload them with physicality on the flanks worked a treat.

3) Saman in particular really caused them real problems drifting off the dominant Sardar. We need to play him there for the rest of the tournament, gives us better balance and he is more dangerous and effective in this advanced position.

3) The mid-to-high level press in the second half worked perfectly and they for a Japan team that is that technically good to not be able to play their way out of it shows how good our shape out of possession was.

4) I thought this great defensive structure was also largely evident in the first half in our distances and angles from Sardar, across midfield and to the defensive line. The rare exceptions being the goal and a few times both full backs got sucked out of position during Japan's overloads on the flanks.

5) To win a cup you need to combine the slightly fortuitous (Syria pens) with the dominant and for us to dominate Japan in this way sets a marker for the rest to worry about us. With a fresh and eager Taremi back against Qatar/Uzbeks this will keep our opponents guessing about how to set up against us.

[Dr.Oz]

Now watch the fkn chink ref give another 5 min injury time to make sure at least handful of us get a heart attack b4 were through

These sort of racist comments should get people banned. What are you? A fuckin 15 year old?

I actually think the ref was quite lenient to us. He made a couple of questionable calls but in no way was he harsh to us…we could have easily had a few yellows from how we manhandled some of the Japanese.

As far as the game is concerned, this was Azmoun’S match. He’s so strong aerially that there’s nothing a team like Japan can do to stop him. They were crowding him and were so worried and fixated on him all game that is gave our wingers and midfield some room to breath.

The tactics were on point. This was exactly what we needed to do and exactly what we did. That’s rare by TM standards!