U23 Asian Championship; Quarter Final; Iran - Japan [22-01-2016]

[Gucci10]

As entertaining as it was to watch our old school attacking play this tournament, you have to admit that Queiroz's defensive tactics work. At least Khakpour's English is good.

& Qatar just took the lead against North Korea. Their Aspire Academy is paying off.

Yeah I admit...Qatar can be a top footballing nation with their tactics they might have Brazilians but it might work out for them.

[rugs]

Stamina and fitness are what it came down to, along with playing 3 at the back at the end of extra time.

Torabi was too slow and Motahari couldn't do much with the constant lofted balls today.

You forgot to mention IR.

[Ardalan]

Taaktike Khaakpour dar 90 daghighe besyaar khoob bood. Japon taharokesh kam bood va nemidonestan che kaar konan taa be mogheiyaate golzani beresan.

Hamchenin tamarkoze japonihaa pish az vaghte ezafe sad dar sad nabood.

Poshesh va feshaare maa dar miyaneyeh zamin dar 90 daghigheye avval harf nadasht.

Sepas khaste shodim, va Khakpour natonest tavizhaai kone ta gole mosavi raa bezanim.

Afsoos ke na Karimi, na Motahari va na Mohamadi tonestan dar 90 daghighe az mogheiyathashon behtar estefadeh konan.

Omide man ine ke bazikonaani manande Motahari va baradarhaaye Mohamadi dar ayande betonan mohrehaaye mohemi beshan dar TM.

[Kavian]

What can you do when you have a culture that a news anchor calls Japanese team "cheshm badamiha"

or calling a black player "Seeyah Chehreh"

[persian_pooya]

Poor management is to blame. I know this is obvious and other have probably stated but just to reiterate POOR MANAGEMENT from the Iranian federation is why we have failed to qualify for the Olympics

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[rugs]

It's no surprise. All these players are IPL players. They are set up to fail in that curropt league.

We need to fix our football from the ground up. Simple as that.

[Malavani]

I don't care about the talent levels of the team, who is coaching it, luck, the field...
What matters is two indicators.
1 - the number of mistakes made
2 - the efficiency of movement, passes and goals
Iranian football while full of talent has real issues when it comes to the 2 topics I just mentioned. That's why CQ trains physically fit, "Boring", defensive teams; because he wants his teams to get results. His job is not to change all of Iranian football.
I don't even blame this on Khakpour or MK. It is the fault of every club in Iran which doesn't even give 5% of its budget to its youth teams.

Teams like Sepahan , Foolad and even Saipa are actually doing a great job with their youth program. But unfortunately , as Jalali recently said in an interview, they're afraid to use their young players since teams like Traktor and Malavan (I have to admit it..) may snatch them afterward. This sarbazi is definitely our 1° problem , no doubt about it. It makes our clubs think twice before investing in youth program and we're getting screwed because of that

[football.club]

Asian cup 2011: loss against South Korea in the quarterfinal

Asian cup 2015: we lost against Iraq in the quaterfinal (extratime+penalty)

U23 Asian Championship: we lost against Japan in the quarterfinal.

unfortunately, this is the level of our football (quarterfinal level). We lose important games (when it matters most). I think we should hire someone like Conor mcgregor and let him do the trash talk before the game so we can beat our opponents.

[Nokhodi]

Teams like Sepahan , Foolad and even Saipa are actually doing a great job with their youth program. But unfortunately , as Jalali recently said in an interview, they're afraid to use them since teams like Traktor and Malavan (I have to admit it..) may snatch them afterward. This sarbazi is definitely our 1° problem , no doubt about it. It makes our clubs think twice before investing in youth program and we're getting screwed because of that

That's just an excuse. Most don't want to use young players because they're afraid of losing. They won't take any risks.
The sad thing is more clubs are finally using younger players but only because "sazmane league" mandated that clubs have to start using youth players.

[Nokhodi]

Don't be fooled. Kaffashian is a nobody. He has no power. The Olympic team decisions have all basically come through Goudarzi and his buddies.

[Doctor DOOM]

If Motahari had not wasted all those chances n regular time, we'd ben cheering right now.
He's just too wasteful. Maybe if he focused on his finishing as much as his crappy hairstyle, we would have seen a different scoreline.


We must hire psychologists for our players of all ages and ALL TEAMS. Our players of all ages get too emotional and lose focus easily. That's what happened after Japan's first goal. Our lads just lost all their shape and focus, allowing Japan to seal the game immediately.


This game is the game of missed chances. And we just didn't capitalize on our possession and more importantly on at least 4 brilliant scoring chances!
But they are young and I hope they maintain this form and become a stronger future TM.

After all we pushed Asia's too team to the brink of elimination. That's something to take home and build on.

[04041374]

Funny thing is that the same Goudarzi who was ridiculing the praises after our game against Argentina, told before the games that he is not going to be disappointed whatever happens.

Doesn't this sound like a hypocrite?

[esfandyar123]

First game I have watched from the U23 in years. and my opinion is :
as a x pro soccer player my self playing in Sweden I think,
- The coaches did better than I though they would do.
- We had no attacking method as we did not know what to do when we received the ball in the middle and the third half
- Defense was total shit (especially our full backs)
- It was a close match to be honest but mentally you can tell that Japan was superior which 95% of the time thats what makes the difference (look at licter city)
- Many many bad passes where it could have been 1 to 10 miters aside but our players decided to kick the ball long to switch the play
- Where I think we feel apart was the confident of our coach (Khakpour)
- We did good at some points but a team should not fall apart like we did after the first goal.

Over all rating for the tournament was 6/10
Reasoning behind it was the individual talent of our players.
We have such tallented players compared to asian teams and even European teams but the difference is that they start playing in a system at age of 11 working on tactical abilities where even some of our national players right now are behind tactically.

[04041374]

I feel that the coaching staff will remain the same.

[Leopard]

Actually I had posted the list of the japanese who players in their 3rd match. Almost all were their reserves except for 2. So Team Omid did not have extra day of rest but the japanese has 2 extra days. Omid ran out of breath by the 6th minute. The three subs should have been made and between 60 and 70 minute. We cannot blame the players, because they were tired while the japanese had fresh legs.
If we want to judge the Omid players we just have to watch the first half.
If KP had used the best players and had defeated Qatar then the reserve would have been used in China match.
Anyway KP did not know how to deal with this puzzle. We are better than the Japanese.
In the game Qatar is playing against NK they have an arab lineman who called a goal offside. Maybe NK can start a petition for not having arab referee in Arab related games. maybe S korea will lose for the same kind of injustice and they will join the petition.
one more thing FIFA should ban all loudspeakers with nonsense noise especially in Qatar. no one should attend a game in Qatar just to get his ears damaged.

Motahari did the same thing as the guy in TM did being offside. in one situation actually he was not but the stupid referee made a bad call.

go and see the ball possession, in first half near the end it was 62-38 and it changed slowly as the players got tired and i saw 52-48 at one time.

no more mihani coaches please. This should help CQ to not hear moaning and groaning of mihani coaches. any of CQ, Branko, Kranjkar would have won the championship.