[Friendly] Iran vs Macedonia 02-06-2016 Live Report and Broadcast

[Parham10]

Speaking about his good tools, what was wrong with his crossing tho? He used to be the best Iranian crosser but he doesn't even show a slight sign of that in recent TM games

seems to me like hes becoming over-confident, and like another member said earlier he's trying to do some FIFA tricks and messing up badly

[YeCheesi Tala]

seems to me like hes becoming over-confident, and like another member said earlier he's trying to do some FIFA tricks and messing up badly

Spending too much time on FIFA than on training pitch makes you that way.

[webmaster]

who assisted the first goal ?

Pouraliganji

[Karimi 8]

Hey anyone find out where to get a hold of this match? Footballitarin never posted it. Would love to see it.

[Ali.Karimi79]

Pouraliganji

He slipped and the ball luckily landed for Azmoun. I would also say it was AJ assist.

[BacheLot]

I think the key, especially with new players, is patience.

Rezaeian didn't have a great game (not any where near the gloomy post that Doctor Doom posted), but he doesn't even have 10 caps for TM. Let these guys get a decent number of games under their belt before we start freaking out.

Some people start hot right away, some people need a bit of time. We know Rezaeian has some good tools, lets give him a chance to get into a groove.

the one rare thing that he does possess is an excellent stamina, energy and the ability to roam up and down the right wing for 90min strong..! although in Masedonia game he struggled mightily with accurately crossing, passing and even freaking throw-ins, i thought he did an admirable job defensive marking and staying vigilant defensively all game long.
he just seemed awful nervous, unsettled and kept rushing things..!!
lack of composure and calmness and confidence in possession of ball, clear flaws of our domestic footballers, especially so when playing vs well organized, composed European teams..!

i too think he will come good eventually with enough international exposure or much sooner than that if he could muster an EU club move of sort..!!?? besides with Vouria injured and out of form, Khosro aged n played-out, Beita simply not good enough, Montazeri forced back to CB to fill even a bigger shortage there, it aint like we have any better RWB options to replace him with..!!???
May be CQ should revert Dejagha to RWB?? he simply lacks the vision for CM/AM position and keeps trying to force and muscling his way through there, he has always been a winger of sort and feels more comfortable operating on the bylines and seems a gholdor o semej defensively too..?? well experienced and not quiet ready to be demoted to 2nd team..! so why not..?

[arasradio]

With all due respect aras jan you got to be more observant than that, despite the fact that they were certainly not nearly as good as we were they still play a different brand of football than any of our Asian opponents - more specifically they gave us far less time on the ball which was why our team was forced to make quick decision making and quick passes. You're not going to get that from any Asian team aside from Japan, Australia or SK. In other words almost no Asian team would challenge us in that aspect. If you look at his official Facebook he specifically clarifies that and he is 100% right

Ghermezagha jaan, please don't get me wrong. I am not saying Macedonia is Afghanistan all of a sudden. And of course I am also proud to see our team win being the guest on Macedonian turf. However, Macedonia is not in a calibre that CQ exaggerates "we need to learn from"! He is only humble at our cost when it come to Team Melli! While if anyone says the smallest thing about himself he rightfully loses it and defends himself as he is the king. I wished he had the same attitude towards Team Melli the pride of Asia.

With all respect bro, Macedonia did not give us much of space? That is how we had many one on one opportunities and were able to penetrate their box many times with 3 players? We never got these many chances even against UAE in the Asian Cup.

Plus bro, Iran is the best of Asia at the moment and a high ranking team. It does not make sense a pro coach goes on and claim that he played the excellent team and we were the Asians and they were Europeans kind of attitude. Those are old school kind of comments. even likes of Sir Alex and Moriniho always praise the Asian soccer!

My point is that we are more European than Macedonia soccer wise if he wants to put it in that phrase! But that is wrong to say as well because Asia is also a great continent and I am happy to say that we have great teams here. Korea 4th of the world, Japan who scares any team, Australia a team with stamina and Iran a resilient team. Come on! What I am referring to is his way of looking at our nation after so many years of staying in our country. He can hardly speak one Farsi sentence! With all respect to him and his abilities, he is just a Portuguese guy who happen to have great coaching style, not the ambassador of "dolate fakhimeye britaniyaye kabir" that all he says is hale shoma khoob ast? salam! lol

And from a technical point of view! I understand in the lack of friendlies and from a political stand, he wants to exaggerate the might of the opponent to claim that he is playing stronger side and prevent to clash with bigger teams that may put a loss on his shiny transcript, however soon we have to face a Korea that has improved, a China that is very solid and a corrupted Qatar that is the host of the next world cup! we got to play big teams. why this great coach does not get us a friendly with Portugal! He has connections! Yes, playing Macedonia is also good but we do not learn as much as he claims. We learn much more if we play likes of Germany for instance.

[O-ZoNe]

And from a technical point of view! I understand in the lack of friendlies and from a political stand, he wants to exaggerate the might of the opponent to claim that he is playing stronger side and prevent to clash with bigger teams that may put a loss on his shiny transcript, however soon we have to face a Korea that has improved, a China that is very solid and a corrupted Qatar that is the host of the next world cup! we got to play big teams. why this great coach does not get us a friendly with Portugal! He has connections! Yes, playing Macedonia is also good but we do not learn as much as he claims. We learn much more if we play likes of Germany for instance.

It boils down to two questions...

a) do you want to make the world cup?
b) do you want to make the world cup and go past the first round?

If the answer is (a) then from AFC, a team need not play countries beyond Macedonia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and so on because this type of preparation can get you match fit and exposure, which likely will help you achieve your goal.

If the answer is (b) then from AFC in particular, a team needs to play the likes of Brazil, Argentina, Germany and so on...teams with World Cup pedigree and likelihood of reoccurring participation.

It's like preparing for a chess match by playing checkers. Playing checkers will improve your hand movements, style, and even a little bit of board vision, but the only real way to prepare for a chess match is to play chess. Now if you want to be a grand master, you can't prepare with simple chess, you need to be able to beat the best as well. I thought our initial matches with Sweden and Chile were a good start, and hopefully we see more of that because Kyrgyzstan which is coming up won't even prepare us for Asian Cup any better than Orlando Pirates did for World Cup.

[Bessos]

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You do realize there is plenty of time to play the likes of Brazil and Germany between WCQ and the actual WC?

There are at least 8 FIFA matchdays between the last WCQ in September 2017 up until the World Cup in June 2018.

That is the period where we will play those big teams, and assuming that we are now in the post-sanctions period and have already signed several MoUs with big footballing nations such as Holland and Germany, I'm expecting to see matches planned with these kinds of teams in this period between WCQ and WC.

[PSGman#19]

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You do realize there is plenty of time to play the likes of Brazil and Germany between WCQ and the actual WC?

There are at least 8 FIFA matchdays between the last WCQ in September 2017 up until the World Cup in June 2018.

That is the period where we will play those big teams, and assuming that we are now in the post-sanctions period and have already signed several MoUs with big footballing nations such as Holland and Germany, I'm expecting to see matches planned with these kinds of teams in this period between WCQ and WC.

As someone said, playing west europeans teams will mean human rights protests and headaches and is unlikely to happens. Maybe friendlies with youth teams.

Playing top teams after WCQ is better than nothing in our position but the better is to play them regularly between two WC (the sweden/Chile combo friendlies is already more than 1 years ago) than huring in the final months like a student that rush to studies in the last minutes before the exams.

[O-ZoNe]

^

You do realize there is plenty of time to play the likes of Brazil and Germany between WCQ and the actual WC?

There are at least 8 FIFA matchdays between the last WCQ in September 2017 up until the World Cup in June 2018.

That is the period where we will play those big teams, and assuming that we are now in the post-sanctions period and have already signed several MoUs with big footballing nations such as Holland and Germany, I'm expecting to see matches planned with these kinds of teams in this period between WCQ and WC.

Lol because IFF is the master of using all FIFA match days appropriately and efficiently. We will be lucky if we actually play a friendly match from now till WC with any team that has a betterr ranking than us. I will certainly admit many will be scheduled only to be cancelled...while I would have preferred Chile and Sweden closer to WC for obvious reasons I am just happy those games even happened.

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[Keano]

A flashback Our game against Macedonia in 2006 pre-world cup friendly in Azadi. Man time flies, it absolutely doesn't feel like over 10 years ago. I got a little nostalgic watching this, especially with all our star players at the time. In the comments from 10 years ago, a Macedonian claims this was their B team? Here is the video:

[Kian Persepolis]

A flashback Our game against Macedonia in 2006 pre-world cup friendly in Azadi. Man time flies, it absolutely doesn't feel like over 10 years ago. I got a little nostalgic watching this, especially with all our star players at the time. In the comments from 10 years ago, a Macedonian claims this was their B team? Here is the video:

LOL that Macedonian guy that scored kinda looks like Messi xD

[Kiarash]

It's simple, if we want to make it past the group stage the next World Cup then we should be playing top 50 ranked teams only. This is the only way to see where we really stand.

If CQ and IFF are aiming to get the same results as in 2014, then we should keep playing teams like Kyrgyzstan and Macedonia.

You can't expect different results if you insist on the same mentality. TM is not challenging themselves enough because they always play low profile friendlies.

They will never get out of their comfort zone. Cancelling the friendly with Croatia was just weak. Instead, we got Macedonia who ended below even Luxembourg in their qualification group for god's sake.

I agree completely with O-ZoNe on this matter.

[littlepersia17]

It's simple, if we want to make it past the group stage the next World Cup then we should be playing top 50 ranked teams only. This is the only way to see where we really stand.

If CQ and IFF are aiming to get the same results as in 2014, then we should keep playing teams like Kyrgyzstan and Macedonia.

You can't expect different results if you insist on the same mentality. TM is not challenging themselves enough because they always play low profile friendlies.

They will never get out of their comfort zone. Cancelling the friendly with Croatia was just weak. Instead, we got Macedonia who ended below even Luxembourg in their qualification group for god's sake.

I agree completely with O-ZoNe on this matter.

The flip side to your argument is that this approach can work against us. A good example of this is Australia during 2013. They played Brazil and France within a space of a few months.

Both teams convincingly won 6-0 and that literally started the downfall of the team. The coach was sacked, more experienced players were used as a scape goat for the heavy defeats and ultimately never called up again. This concluded with three defeats in Brazil (WC 2014) and a early return back to Australia.

They eventually recovered, but playing against top sides and getting hammered convincingly forever destroyed Australia's reputation in the world of football.


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