From playing Sweden to Kenya? Commmme on

[GolfePersique]

I love to see TM battling against big guns, but we don't it before Turkmenistan match. just need a warm-up to reorganize our team and rehearse the tactics.
Ifthey bring their main team, they'll be worthy opponent.

[ehsan singapore]

how cheap the uzbeks are, haha

if your playing at home for the first game of qualifiers, then is not good to go and come back

[O-ZoNe]

This is a good match for initial stages of WCQ. I am also thrilled to see teams referring to playing against us as a good test against a quality opponent. Outside of Asian that rarely happens but from the front page article it seems Kenyan's feel like the underdogs against us. Hopefully we will see more attack minded football like our last two friendlies, as we showed we can hold our own on both ends of the pitch.

[DireStraits]

No body is more physical than the Europeans. Sweden beat us in man to man challenges both offensively and defensively. Our most physical players like Ashkan and Ando struggles against the Swedish players. Ibrahimvich made our biggest defenders his little bitchs.

But to support what you are saying, playing the likes of Kenya, is just to allow CQ to evaluate his new players. I take any friendly over none.

I don't get what you misunderstood in my post. Generally Arabs play physical and aggresive. They touch, they push simply come close like African teams. While we like well organized
football like Germans and Holland.
When sweedish players send the ball from left to right Iranian defense opens op. These kind of positioning problems was also observed against Iraq specially when Pooladi was out our defense was opened. When I use the term physical play I don't mean they are jost stronger but they also use their body to controll the boll.
Arabs are clever in this kind and they bring the game to "Hashie" and disorganize Iran.

[perspolis#1]

I disagree about the Arab teams. We have always had a more physical team than the Arab nations. The only team that is physically stronger than us is Qatar because of their African contingent. Most Arab teams (Namely Saudi/UAE) are all about fast wingers and playmakers. More Arabs cause hashie by diving then actually tackling our players.

Playing midlevel African/Eastern European teams are a good litmus test for what level our football is. And like always friendlies are used to scope out our weaknesses and we found that rearranging into our positions after a team switches the play is our weakness. This never ocurred before because we never came out to play and would always have a shell so a switch of the play was harmless. If CQ figures out a tactic for this it would really help us focus on our attack game.

[Kiarash]

The more we play UEFA teams, the better we can expose our weakness and work on them. We seem in a huge disadvantage when playing European teams, time to tackle that. We will need to beat or tie at very least one European 1st / 2nd tier team in the World Cup to make the Round of 16 in 2018.

This is why I personally think friendlies with crappy African and bad Asian teams are a waste of time. Our goal is to make history in the next World Cup.

By 2018, a team like Bosnia-Herzogivina or Sweden must be ours.

[DireStraits]

I disagree about the Arab teams. We have always had a more physical team than the Arab nations. The only team that is physically stronger than us is Qatar because of their African contingent. Most Arab teams (Namely Saudi/UAE) are all about fast wingers and playmakers. More Arabs cause hashie by diving then actually tackling our players.

Playing midlevel African/Eastern European teams are a good litmus test for what level our football is. And like always friendlies are used to scope out our weaknesses and we found that rearranging into our positions after a team switches the play is our weakness. This never ocurred before because we never came out to play and would always have a shell so a switch of the play was harmless. If CQ figures out a tactic for this it would really help us focus on our attack game.

Did you already forget Iran Iraq game? And Like I said I didn't mean physically stronger but teams that come close to our player and try disorganize Iran.
If you have observed that Qatar has bought African players then you agree that a game with Kenya is usefull

[Taz]

Argentina play El Salvador and Hong Kong but of course, The Islamic Republic is too good for Kenya.

[perspolis#1]

Did you already forget Iran Iraq game? And Like I said I didn't mean physically stronger but teams that come close to our player and try disorganize Iran.
If you have observed that Qatar has bought African players then you agree that a game with Kenya is usefull

Oh I agree Kenya is useful to prepare for teams with stamina like Uzbekistan, Qatar, and even Oman. But Iraq kept switching the play from right to left because Pooladi was missing and no one covered that side with one less man. Otherwise that game would have panned out 2/3-0 with us scoring a lot on Sardar Azmoun towering over Iraqs crappy defending.

One on one defending is what we need to practice the most. The best one v one defender in Iran was Pouladi and he may never play again. We could defend like a shell because we have four guys pouring on one attacker at a time. If we ever want to attack in numbers we need to make sure our defenders can go one on one versus players like Zlatan, Victor Moses, Wanyama. Players who usually need 2-3 guys from us.

[PSGman#19]

The more we play UEFA teams, the better we can expose our weakness and work on them. We seem in a huge disadvantage when playing European teams, time to tackle that. We will need to beat or tie at very least one European 1st / 2nd tier team in the World Cup to make the Round of 16 in 2018.

This is why I personally think friendlies with crappy African and bad Asian teams are a waste of time. Our goal is to make history in the next World Cup.

By 2018, a team like Bosnia-Herzogivina or Sweden must be ours.

We often complained about the lack of high level experience with lack of high class friendlies and legionnaires in Europe.

Seeing the score sheet between al gooz- naft today, I realize our clubs/players often play versus against very good international players. As. Gyan, Weiss (who tears apart PSG defense last year), are some example.