POST-MATCH | Iran - Argentina | We have earned A LOT of respect!

[purrrrsian]

So how do we advance to the round of 16 ?
what are the senarios ?

the only likely way to advance will be to beat bosnia and hope nigeria doesn't win today

[Mariam_h]

Sorry I guess that question was wrong! I should have not asked and waited for the comments with the best scenario of Bosnia and Nigeria's match.

[Abtin]

Sv: POST-MATCH | Iran - Argentina | We have earned A LOT of respect!

So how do we advance to the round of 16 ?
what are the senarios ?

a must win against Bosnia. and hopefully a draw between Bosnia and Nigeria tonight. IF we had gotten the draw today, and Bosnia and Nigeria drew tonight, we would advance with a draw against Bosnia.

[O-ZoNe]

Guys we opened up in the second half and played some good football and consequently conceded. The gamble seems too risky in my opinion.

I doubt it. Any of those chances could have given us a win or tie. In fact, we should have had a PK. It wasn't defense, it wasn't the goal keeping, not even the offense that cost us this game. As CQ said, a guy from Argentina named Messi and an incompetent Serbian ref cost us this match.

[purrrrsian]

well, I don't think they opened up too much in 2nd half, compared to that beautiful performance they made, you gotta do that to win the next game I can't imagme when I'll stop crying after that heartbreaking last minute loss. Iran deserved the draw!

we didn't open up too much but just enough to put some pressure on argentinas goal, but i don't think that will be enough to get us a goal versus bosnia

[pres80]

we didn't open up too much but just enough to put some pressure on argentinas goal, but i don't think that will be enough to get us a goal versus bosnia

Lol we had several good oportunities to get a goal doing it agains t Argentina what makes you think we can't do it against Bosnia....come on man.

[Abtin]

I think the whole footballing world agrees we played waay better than Bosnia against Argentina!!

[bijbij]

Re: POST-MATCH | Iran - Argentina | We have earned A LOT of respect!

Lol i seriously hope that bosnia and nigeria dont draw today this will only make the loss much more painfull.

[ali8karimi]

man so proud of them guys so proud

[elnino99]

Guys we opened up in the second half and played some good football and consequently conceded. The gamble seems too risky in my opinion.

We conceded the goal when we had 11 players back in the box.

All the praise we're getting from the world and ourselves, is because of our second half "dare to dream" ...and any other day it would have paid off and we would have scored 1 goal or 2

[purrrrsian]

we should stop complaining about the penalty call, a lot of people are thinking highly of iran's football right now and we shouldn't spoil that image by making us look like whiners

[Kaveh Ahangar]

I am so proud of our players. They did everything to contain some of the world's best strikers and we could have won the game.

One of the best TM performances in my lifetime, up there with USA in 1998.

[Yoshida]

The problem with the loss today is that a draw against Argentina would've seen Iran potentially only needing a draw against Bosnia to advance.

I have a sinking feeling that Bosnia-Nigeria will draw today, and then Argentina will beat Nigeria. An Iran-Bosnia draw (quite likely IMO) leaves Iran out due to the second tie-breaker (goals scored). If today was a bitter pill to swallow, imagine that!

The game against Bosnia will be different. Argentina don't have a classic centre-forward who can be dominant in the air, so keeping it narrow and allowing them to cross was the right tactic. Dzeko is a completely different player to Higuain. Pjanic also gives them that deep lying playmaker that Iran hasn't faced yet in this tournament. However, Bosnia are nowhere near as good along the backline as Argentina, with the exception of Begovic.

For me, Jahanbakhsh must start the Bosnia game. Incredibly creativity player.

[hzv]

if you would ve told me before this game we would lose 1-0 and play like this i would ve taken it but watching the game this loss feels like zahreh maar..anyways a big khasteh nabashid to our players who were well deserving of at least a point but got rubbed and then were beaten by an alien who should be in a lab getting tested on not playing in world cup. the only difference between us and other teams is self belief. what a bad loss...

[PSGman#19]

Did someone have a vid of the carpet thing? I miss the anthems and the beginning.