Iran vs. Qatar - [Match Thread] | Asian Cup 2023 | Wednesday, February 7th |

[IRAN_TILL_I_DIE]

If it was me I would play a classic 4-4-2 against Qatar. This way our midfield would lock the midfield and controls it as Qatar has a decent midfield and our experienced forwards will finish the game for us. And our defense lines stays put all the game and does not participate in attack to neutralize Afif and Moez Ali's probable dangers.

Taremi - Azmoun
Ghayedi - Ghoddos - Ezzatolahi- - Hajisafi
Milad - Kannanizadegan - Cheshmi - Shoja
Beiro

We could bring in Ramin or Mohebi or even JB/Omid in the 2nd half depending on the result or perhaps Moghanlou to rest Azmoun or Taremi for the final.

Cheshmi should never play for team Melli again!
unless it’s like the Japan game where he comes on for the final 60 seconds..

[webmaster]

^ we have no other defenders bro. It's not my dream team. It is the team that will win it with players we have available.

[Saam]

^ we have no other defenders bro. It's not my dream team. It is the team that will win it with players we have available.

I think we have Fallah, right?

[webmaster]

^ we do have Fallah and also the young Aria but I am not sure if we ever used them or if even GN would ever play them.

[webmaster]

Let's pump up for the game. Here is our last game against Qatar:

[ferdyf]

We should take South Kora like we took Japan. I can't remember Iran being in a final. We need to take Qatar seriously and go with a lot of self confidence against S Kora or Jordan. We have a good record against Korea but the are in the final as well

[armen]

rumours that the stadium will be changed to a bigger stadium due to a bigger fan presence, idk how professional that is considering the game is in 3 days.

https://x.com/mohamedelgazar4/status...670137016?s=20

Qatar apparently requested a change of venue to a bigger stadium for the semifinals, but it seems IFF has rejected the proposal:
https://en.irna.ir/news/85377328/Ira...-AFC-Asian-Cup

[IRAN_TILL_I_DIE]

I hope GN doesn’t make any drastic changes and rests the likes of azmoun, ghoddos and ezzatolahi. Playing the likes of ansarifard and cheshmi instead !

we need to start with these players and after 60/65 mins when we are hopefully 2 goals up and in complete control, then we can afford to sub them out and rest them..

[AhuraMazda1]

Wasn't he injured during the World Cup, too? is he injury prone?

I believe he was injured then also. But even if he was fit I doubt he would have played during the WC. Would have likely stayed on the bench.

[Iran_19]

Hasan al haydos start kor kori, asking people to come to stadium and saying nafas iran o migirim
qatar asked AFC to recolate the game to much bigger stadium
Psychological war by arabs already started!


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[maly3648]

Folks،

Let's not allow the win against Japan makes us disillusioned about the real ability of our team and the task ahead.

The truth is this Japan wasn't as good as when we face them 4 year ago. In fact they were not good at all. They were outperformed by Iraq in almost every aspect, they struggled against Vietnum, and the two wins against Indonisia and Baharain were not all that impressive. They did not show much against Iran neither. I actually think Syria was a much tougher team than Japan and i have to agree with the coach (can't believe I say this) that Iran played its best game against them.

Iran issues in defense still presists and continues to be a concern if/when we face the strongest team of this tournament (Korea) on the final day.

For now however, we need to focus on Qatar who is also a strong side and can cause trouble for Iran. Qatar has in Moez and Affif two very agile and dangerous strikers capable to turning the balance of the game. The coach needs to come up with a proper formation and tactics to ensure we are not caught off guard.

In football, you can play against a team 10 times and each time come out victorious but the 11th game will always be on a new day and on new terms and there will be no guarantee for the history to repeat itself.

This is the same Japan team which destroyed Germany, Peru, Turkey few months ago, what are you talking about?

It's not because Iraq won against them that they were "weak", where is this logic coming from? Iraq is a powerful Asian side, they can beat all the best Asian teams on one match, you're not talking about Myanmar.

Iran won because they played an amazing second half and outclassed Japan in all fields, especially physically, where we killed them. If Iran plays focused, they are very strong and they "logically" won this game. Iran can take this cup as they objectively stronger than Korea.

Obviously, it's important to stay focused and not take anyone lightly, especially Qatar in their own soil.

[Rezzy]

Qatar apparently requested a change of venue to a bigger stadium for the semifinals, but it seems IFF has rejected the proposal:
https://en.irna.ir/news/85377328/Ira...-AFC-Asian-Cup

good, qataris wanted more of their fans in the stadium

[mbaizai]

good, qataris wanted more of their fans in the stadium

I hope IFF decision won't make the Qatari pumped up to play like Brazil!!

[love-tm]

Probably an unpopular opinion but one thing that has been quite clear since Taremi´s rise to success is that he has been given too much respect and admiration in the team. He is a fantastic player but in this tournament he hasn´t delivered. It was obvious that we played better without him vs Japan and I truly believe that one of the big factors was that he wasn´t playing.

You could clearly see players take bigger roles on the pitch when Taremi is absent. Taremi nowadays drops too far back and tries to do everything by himself which disrupts the defenders and the midfielders. The players themselves pass the ball to him when they could do something else and play football with more speed. Taremi likes to slow down the rhythm sometimes.

I understand that Ghalenoi would never drop Taremi in such a crucial game, neither would I if I was the coach but if he sees that it doesn´t work out he should atleast think about subbing him out and give Azmoun, Ghoddos and whoever is on the wings more space and freedom.

[allan123]

I hope IFF decision won't make the Qatari pumped up to play like Brazil!!

Why!!!

I think is good job from IFF defending Iran interest and not changeing the stadium.