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

[khodam]

Oman was gassed at the 60th minute while our team was still running on a full tank thanks to our TM's conditioning, credit the coaching team for that. Also there was nothing lucky about our goal, it was a very clever pass to the left which allowed acres of space for HS to put a hard cross into the box and Hossaini converted. How is that considered luck.

Lucky in a sense that it missed two Iran players before it got to Hosseini. I am sure he wasn't the intended target. Had the two TM players not missed the pass Hosseini would never be gifted with a loose ball between his legs. I agree HS did well on that play.

[Z Joon]

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

I give credit to Oman they played well, we were completely shite, CQ had a bad approach to the game again like vs the Turks, but the result was acceptable, we need to wake up now.

[arasradio]

Yes it's true last time we beat Oman was 14 years ago as the announcer mention with CQ we also lost 3-1 in a friendly to Oman few years ago.But seriously I don't know why Fifa gives out these stupid rankings we are not top 50 in the world and definitely not number 1 in Asia.I don't care for other Asian sides but if Iran is asia's best then for someone who maybe watched this game for the 1st time they are going to think to themselves wow this was asia's best team.

Too harsh. Every team has a bad day!

FYI, the best of Asia at the moment is the champion of Asian cup Australia who lost to Jordan so what does that make them? We played a bad football in an away match. And our worst day and with a weaker than potential squad, yet managed to avoid defeat. That's a character that makes Iran the best team in Asia. What do you think?

If Iran has stayed in top 40 (now 39) is mostly because of its great results against stronger teams like Chile (the champion of South America) and not playing many friendlies (that keeps the points unchanged while other teams lose points due to a sudden loss), however this will be changed soon and Iran will soon start a declining curve due to two main elements: weaker results against weaker teams and Other continents' World Cup qualifying campaign starting soon.

But I agree with you. This team need to be motivated and modified immediately as we will have problem in the next round. We need to use all our potentials; some missing due to prolonged injuries, some to strange lineup and formation design!

[Shah Abbas]

lol, some people here shocked about the way Team Meli has played today, as if we don't play like this every game (against an average team or better).
The only difference is that most of the time we win those games, hence people don't talk about the poor performance...

[Martin-Reza]

We really suck when playing away from home. Still unbeatable though .

[Nader25]

[QUOTE=Afat11;2328570]I don't understand why there were so many errant passes and bad touches. The boys looked lost out there. Then they got scored on, woke up for 10 minutes and played like Iran, then went back to sleep until the end...

hehe my friend you got it, the iranian disease since the porto bluff......

[Doctor DOOM]

"'One bad day'' happens to all and every team. That's part of the game.
But when you have a run of multiple poor games, then you should get worried.

Oman, India, Guam, Turkmenistan, Iraq, UAE, .... etc. That is a whole run of bad or sub par games. Do make a distinction between quality performance and merely ''winning a game''. The two are two separate issues.
When was the quality performance by TM in an official game?

[Z Joon]

"'One bad day'' happens to all and every team. That's part of the game.
But when you have a run of multiple poor games, then you should get worried.

Oman, India, Guam, Turkmenistan, Iraq, UAE, .... etc. That is a whole run of bad or sub par games. Do make a distinction between quality performance and merely ''winning a game''. The two are two separate issues.
When was the quality performance by TM in an official game?

Yup I agree.

[Doctor DOOM]

As for the ''strong defense'' claims

When was the last game we truly showed strong defense against a team capable of attacking us?
I have to go back an entire year and more to the Argentina game (yes, the ''park the bus'' against the world's top 5 team isn't all that shameful ... although against others it is extremely shameful)

[Nader25]

on the other hand its too much expected to be suprior in the region given this misery akhond society the boys grew up in ....

[Kavian]

Pisssed off with the performance. ... one of our club teams could have performed better than what we saw.

Team had all sorts of problem from fitness to lack of coordiantion, a plan to score. Players looked lost when they go the ball .. Omid kept looking around him to find someone to pass the ball to. Ando was non existing and usual committing too many unnecessry fouls. Arab leagues have destroyed our talented players.

[Nokhodi]

Oman's coach said it was the best game he has seen Oman play in his reign as manager!

[Nokhodi]

TM in 2001. The last TM that beat Oman!

[Keano]

India has higher soccer budget than Iran so what little we have is still amazing!!

Thank you!


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[Kavian]

Oman's coach said it was the best game he has seen Oman play in his reign as manager!

of course, even my daughter high school team will perform like Brazil against Iran.