FIFA World Cup 2018 Qualifying: Oman - Iran @ Sultan Qaboos, Muscat; 08-10-2015

[Kiarash]

Let's keep match thread short and simple for a change.

Match information
Game: Oman - Iran
Date: Thursday 8th October 2015
Local Time: 18:30 GST
Venue: Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex, Muscat, Oman
Tournament: FIFA World Cup 2018 Qualifying
Stage: 2nd round match day 4

Officials
Referee: Valentin Kovalenko (UZB)

Time Zones
07:30 Los Angeles & Vancouver
10:30 Toronto & New York
15:30 Lissabon & London
16:30 Amsterdam, Stockholm & Berlin
18:00 Tehran
00:30 Sydney (next day)

Broadcasting
IRIB 3
Varzesh

Streams
Footballitarin
IranProud

[aenima_8]

Oman defeated Syria 2-1 in a friendly played today:

http://fussball.wettpoint.com/en/games/2043764.html

[KC McElroy]

سلطان قابوس خره.

[Afat11]

سلطان قابوس خره.

Prepare for Ali Al Habsi to have the game of his life on Thursday. Arab GK's always turn into Oliver Kahn when they play against us, especially at home. I'm predicting another nerve-wracking and frustrating match.

[Gucci10]

Prepare for Ali Al Habsi to have the game of his life on Thursday. Arab GK's always turn into Oliver Kahn when they play against us, especially at home. I'm predicting another nerve-wracking and frustrating match.

They will become wakamatsu from tsubasa

[teammelli91]

Hopefully we will win this one and comfortably pass through to the final round.

[Talaa]

Prepare for Ali Al Habsi to have the game of his life on Thursday. Arab GK's always turn into Oliver Kahn when they play against us, especially at home. I'm predicting another nerve-wracking and frustrating match.

I seriously don't want to have a nerve-wracking match. You don't know how fast my heart beats during close TM matches. Last night I could've died but somehow I managed to keep myself alive. (ಠ_ಠ)
And just saying, Oman beat us back in 2013 3-1 in a friendly.

[sirvan]

I'll never forget the Asian Cup
game against Oman in 2004, it was
the third match in the group stage, where they where up 2-0 and had almost eliminated us from reaching the quarter final untill Nosrati had saved us in the final stage of the game, TM was outplayed for the
most part of that match.

[Damavand]

I seriously don't want to have a nerve-wracking match. You don't know how fast my heart beats during close TM matches. Last night I could've died but somehow I managed to keep myself alive. (ಠ_ಠ)
And just saying, Oman beat us back in 2013 3-1 in a friendly.

CQ used an experimental lineup for that match and virtually none of the players that went on to play the last 3 WCQ were in that game. While Oman had most of their regular players.

I'll never forget the Asian Cup
game against Oman in 2004, it was
the third match in the group stage, where they where up 2-0 and had almost eliminated us from reaching the quarter final untill Nosrati had saved us in the final stage of the game, TM was outplayed for the
most part of that match.

Correction. It was the 2nd match in the group stage, so we would not have been eliminated if we had lost that game.

[Damavand]

I don't mean to sound over confident, but we are playing Oman not Japan or Australia. If there is no hiccups, we should be able to come home with all 3 points.

[Gucci10]

I don't mean to sound over confident, but we are playing Oman not Japan or Australia. If there is no hiccups, we should be able to come home with all 3 points.

Oman are different at home. See their home record in the 2014 WCQ.

[BacheLot]

I don't mean to sound over confident, but we are playing Oman not Japan or Australia. If there is no hiccups, we should be able to come home with all 3 points.

normally they are a tricky team to get by for us..! but i saw their tokhmy 0-0 Tie game vs guam the other day and they looked completely toothless..!!
we should be able to beat them with at least 2 goal margin IF CQ CAN MOTIVATE OUR BOYS SHOW UP TO PLAY AND EACH PUT IN A SHIFT, as in our last two WCQs....!

if we bag this this game, as im thinking we will, then CQ can continue and probably even expand with his experimentation with the new much younger TM squad for WC18.
If we slip and loose this golden opportunity to wrap up the 1st round of WCQualifying early, then its back to nail-biting anticipation and counting points and my personally-hated "IF this Then that" Bs Analysis..!!

3 points and early Wrap up here is vital to our preparations and readiness for the tough 2nd round of WCqualifying..!

[sirvan]

CQ used an experimental lineup for that match and virtually none of the players that went on to play the last 3 WCQ were in that game. While Oman had most of their regular players.



Correction. It was the 2nd match in the group stage, so we would not have been eliminated if we had lost that game.

Correct, but our third match was against Japan, which we tied 0-0, if we hadn't tied the game vs Oman thanks to Nosrati, we would have been out of the group for sure, no way we would've been able to beat Japan!

[Damavand]

Correct, but our third match was against Japan, which we tied 0-0, if we hadn't tied the game vs Oman thanks to Nosrati, we would have been out of the group for sure, no way we would've been able to beat Japan!

No. We were capable of beating Japan if we needed to. We had the best team in tournament that year and would have won it, had it not been for another HIGHWAY ROBBERY by the Lebanese Ref in the Semi-final.

Don't judge that team just on the basis of that one HICCUP game against Oman.

[Kavian]

We should have no issue beating Oman by a healthy margin.
Sardar and Taremi combo is lethal.