POST-MATCH DISCUSSION | vs. Bahrain - Asian Cup 2015

[Nariman]

EDIT:

Poll added.

Goals:

[1-0] Ehsan Hajsafi

[2-0]Masoud Shojaei

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[Nariman]

Poll added.

FT:

Bahrain 0-2 Iran

Hajsafi
Shojaei

[Abtin]

Dejagah definitely best player.

[persepolisfan]

Dejagah was our MVP followed by hajsafi then shojaei

[Shah Abbas]

Bahrain completed more passes than us. We need to stop parking the bus! 2 goals from 2 corners. Best player was by far Dejagah.

[Tehranto]

Dejagah, Nekonaum, Morteza P and Ghafouri were fantastic.

[mayhem]

You have to respect Bahrain, they were a strong team. Far from the Bahrain of old. I won't be surprised for them to make it through to the later stages of the competition.

[The Realist]

I wish I could understand Korean, What a coverage with continuous highlights!

[ParthianDE]

I didn't vote; It was a team effort.

Very glad for Shojaei having a good game.

#11 Ghafouri is a nice new addition.

I wish Azmoun would have come on earlier.

We should have tried to keep more possesion,

Anyway, 3 points: A good start. Go TM!!!

[rugs]

Ghafouri was impressive. He is like another Hajsafi. Great on offense and defense.

[K. Nader]

I was going to start with the players that stood out but everyone was excellent. Overall, this was a very good team effort.

[Tehranto]

I also thought CQ's subs were spot on: Azmoun, Jahanbaksh, and Soroush Rafaei

[The Realist]

It is now clear why CQ uses Shojaie and large extent Gucci, instead of JB and Sardar, he wants players that attack and defend. We could see by the introduction of the latter 2 in the last 15 minutes we lost some of our steel and shape and allowed Bahrain to gain space!

[Persian-Pride87]

I have to admit that I was a big time Masoud hater but in my opinion it was warranted because he continuously had terrible games for TM. But todays game was one of his best games ever. He was fantastic today and he deserves credit for that. His only mistake was the clearence attempt he tried to make early in the first half in front of our goal.

Ashkan is an absolute beast, great work ethic and he has REALLY good pace. He left Bahrain's defense in the dust several times. He had a good game, the only knock on him is that he sometimes holds on to the ball for too long and tried to go through too many defenders or passes the ball when its too late. But I love how he gave 100% effort on every ball. He didn't take a single minute off to relax.

Other players that also had pretty good games were Haji Safi and Ghafouri.


TM over all was good. I wish they would have tried to go for a third goal because goal difference will be huge factor on whether we finish 1st or 2nd which is very important considering 2nd place will likely get out Japan. Qatar really opened up its asshole for UAE (just like what they did for Uzbekistan during WC qualification to try and get TM eliminated). I can totally see Bahrain doing the same for UAE while Qatar will do everything it can to make sure they give us a hard test when we play them. TM kind of let its foot of the gas in the last 15-20 minutes. Hopefully in doesnt come back to haunt us.

Over all, we got the 3 points and a 2 goal win. I am happy with this. No one in TM had a particularly bad game which is also a good sign. Doorood bar TM! Onto the next one.

[Nader25]

Everyone did well today, thats it, no need for polls