Iran vs. Hong Kong June 6th WCQ Match Thread

[The]

First half positives:
Midfield is looking good. Ghorbani is better than expected. I hope we see him replace Ezza soon.

Jalali is also doing well.

Our wing players are alright.


negatives are our Yousefi + ours CBs. they aren't on the same page at all. Also Yousefi is just overall not good defensively.

Sardar and Mehdi are being extremely selfish, otherwise we would be up by more goals.

Disappointed with youssefi he doesn’t look mentally ready yet to be a TM player….hopefully that was just 1st cap nerves but there really shouldn’t be that in a light away game with so little on the line.

JB was not on his game either and was ineffective and the midfield could not create good chances for us to score minus one or two moments from saman (who also didn’t look so good IMO). Shoja….dont even get me started with that MF he must have some crazy dirt on someone to not only still be in the TM roster but on the pitch…..

the only bright spot for me was Jalali. Pure energizer bunny of the left flank did great in recovering on counters and pushing forward effectively

JB is playing okay. Had one bad turnover, but other than that had two really good through balls that weren't capitalized on. Also doing a decent job winning possession.

[Kian H]

But its a game against hong kong bro
all of our young players who fans and coaches think are quality national team players should be able to play against HK and show some quality, im not asking for quality against a big team am I ?

Yea I agree, but people want these Young players to start in the Asian cup and at the World Cup. Every coach has Been critized for this, specially GN.
we just arent better. We cant just play 7 youngsters and win a tournament

[Pluto2000]

Yousefi is not a RB idk why he is playing RB at all. He's supposed to be a RW and played there throughout his whole career so far until Morais played him RB when Ramin was injured and now everyone is playing him RB. He's supposed to be where ARJ is.

Hazbavi is making quite a few mistakes, I hope he has a better second half. It's good to get him acclimated sooner than later since he is our best CB prospect.

Jalali silencing all the haters man, he needs to be starter going forward look at that technique and speed man, I love it

[Kian H]

Didnt Hardani play really good against Turkmenistan? I hope we get to see more of him

[PSGman#19]

First half positives:
Midfield is looking good. Ghorbani is better than expected. I hope we see him replace Ezza soon.

Jalali is also doing well.

Our wing players are alright.


negatives are our Yousefi + ours CBs. they aren't on the same page at all. Also Yousefi is just overall not good defensively.

Sardar and Mehdi are being extremely selfish, otherwise we would be up by more goals.

I always find yousefi to be better as a right winget than a RB. Maybe it will come with experience.

We need our youngs to get experience and make mistakes. The problem is if they keep on doing mistakes or being bad after several games/years.

[Pluto2000]

This is being dramatic lol, Japanese goalkeeper Suzuki conceded a million goals from minnows in AC because he's new and acclimating to international play. We're not Liverpool academy, give them a few caps to acclimate to each other's style of play. A lot of these players never played together before

[BacheLot]

its commendable that we are trying to keep the ball low and pass around into attack but i wanna see some crosses and bit more high balls served into HK box here in 2nd half
sardar needs to get stuck in and get off the mark quick in 2nd half

[OFFSIDE_1]

how is that not a foul on the HK player pushing off Sardar

[IRAN_TILL_I_DIE]

3-1 !!!

[BacheLot]

hattrick for mehdi

[IRAN_TILL_I_DIE]

Taremi's hattirck now takes him to 49 goals for Team Melli, 1 behind Bagheri who is 3rd and 3 behind Azmoin who is 2nd

[OFFSIDE_1]

Ghaedi should stop that kind of a celebration. Taremi held him like he was a toddler

[IRAN_TILL_I_DIE]

Hong kong goal 3-2

[Artaxerxes]

We concede AGAIN against HONK KONG, just imagine what teams in the WC will do to us

[rjafari]

that was a foul that caused the turnover but... this is still embarrassing. Niazmand should be diving to save it not be putting his hand up asking for a foul.