DPR Korea vs. Iran Nov. 14th WCQ Match Thread

[Nokhodi]

All tm fans.

[Tarsal Claw]

We are shiite. And will be for a while. Another 4 years for a WC wasted again.

[perspolis#1]

Defenders cannot let that go man. Its drilled into your head that you can't back down from a challenge like that.

If you were a coach and Shoja had let that go, you'd have subbed him right away.

Football is a game of millimeters, so I really don't blame him for it.

I am more concerned with Nemati being in the wrong spot for the 2nd game running

On this field there was a decent enough chance North Korean striker misses or runs into Beiranvand, all danger dissipates and thats it.

I think the worst thing this exposes which we have talked about before is that TM players, when things dont go their way resort to stupid fouls.

This situation is the latest example.

Even in Uzbekistan/Qatar/UAE games if we lost a 50/50 our teams solution was to foul the other guy instead of winning the ball back.

This is going to cost a lot when there are players who can simulate better than Taremi

[The Realist]

Overall a very good result, well-done TM. Given the distance travelled, preparation, humidity, going down to 10-Man. NK were decent in their own moments.

The GN’s post-match comment sum it all. Football thought them a lesson. However 99% of managers, replace a lost Centre Back with a new one and take off a forward instead . Furthermore replace Ghaedi with a a defensive midfielder straight away.

A jet-lagged Taremi (Beast in the first half) could have come off a little earlier too. Sahar-Khizan would have been a good choice for me.

GN is so attack-minded he may think even with 10-men by keeping both his strikers on, he could keep up the pressure on the Koreans. .

We shall definitely make it to the World Cup but I fear playing the likes of Spain and Argentina with this management! 🤞

[oracle]

Tm is in a position now to help Uzbekistan uae or Qatar to make it direct to wc....

Who will they help? Hmmmmmmmm.

[Tarsal Claw]

We just go through the motions and let them get our hopes up. Then it all just breaks in the same pattern every 4 years. Same shiite, different toilet...

[Pluto2000]

Biggest problem by far aside from the awful live game management is the fact that our staff doesn't really learn? or the players don't learn? Not sure. But I'm still seeing the same defensive problems that we had vs Russia in 2022 which was GNs first TM game back.

Every time we do badly, Taremi goes to post-conference and says/insinuates "we lost mentally, we weren't prepared, we thought it was going to be easy". These players ARE SO mentally weak under GN its worse than its ever been.

I know there is a lot of CQ haters but under him we had maybe 4 or 5 games in 8 years that I can recall where we collapsed or shat the bed. Under GN it seems like it happens EVERY other game.

God please give us Australia and Saudi next cycle so we can finally face actual opponents . Change only happens in TM when we lose a few times, then TAJ gets pressured to get off of his ass and do something or face wrath of TM fans

[oracle]

Maybe we as fans should just enjoy these wins?

Maybe since asia football is investing so much and iran football is not ,Maybe in 10 years we be talking about the good ol memories of beating n.k 3-2,Qatar 4-1 when we are battling asia playoffs to just make the wc.

[Nokhodi]

Maybe we as fans should just enjoy these wins?

Maybe since asia football is investing so much and iran football is not ,Maybe in 10 years we be talking about the good ol memories of beating n.k 3-2,Qatar 4-1 when we are battling asia playoffs to just make the wc.

Asia is going more and more backwards every day. Only country doing it right is Japan and to a smaller extent South Korea.

The Arab countries waste their money on washed up players and continue to neglect youth development.
Australians don't care about football anymore.

The lack of intra-continental matches is also really hurting Asian football.
European Club and international football is going so much further away from Asia, that I think international football as we know it will be destroyed in the next 15 years.

[PSGman#19]

The only analysis is GN should be sent in the trashbin with olaghlou, noorafkan nemati at the very list.
No need to watch or talk too much. Another 0 minutes for hosseinnejad.

[TM4LIFE]

- Shoja is a moron and is a low quality centre-back. He is slow, makes poor decisions, and is weak mentally. He is part of why this new TM phase is so leaky defensively. For every one good game he has, you will see three games like this. We have been in dire need of a better CB pairing by GN doesn't have the cojones to experiment properly.

- In spite of the number of goals we did score, we were very wasteful when entering good attacking positions, and often seemed out of synch with our movements

- Bushehri's saved us today

[Artaxerxes]

- Shoja is a moron and is a low quality centre-back. He is slow, makes poor decisions, and is weak mentally. He is part of why this new TM phase is so leaky defensively. For every one good game he has, you will see three games like this. We have been in dire need of a better CB pairing by GN doesn't have the cojones to experiment properly.

- In spite of the number of goals we did score, we were very wasteful when entering good attacking positions, and often seemed out of synch with our movements

- Bushehri's saved us today

When is Majid coming back?

[persian-eagle-13]

J Shoja Khalilzadeh.

his days are number he will be 36 this summer and 37 by WC.

[arj42]

Even after playing almost 2 entire half’s down to 10 men against Uzbekistan and Korea, iran is ranked the following in AFC WCQ after match day 5

attack: 3rd
defensive record: 2nd

[persian-eagle-13]

Even after playing almost 2 entire half’s down to 10 men against Uzbekistan and Korea, iran is ranked the following in AFC WCQ after match day 5

attack: 3rd
defensive record: 2nd

sound like a nice stat, but lets not full ourselves with these stats. We are not good, do not have a good team or coaching staff and we will get to WC and bow out as quickly as we came in.