Iran vs China Player Ratings | Post Match Discussion

[O-ZoNe]

I don't usually do these but for once I will...

Beiranvand - 6

Rezaeian - 3
Montazeri - 6
Pouraliganji - 7
Mohammadi - 5

Teymourian - 6
Ezzatollahi - 5
Jahanbakhsh - 3
Shojaei - 6
Amiri - 5

Azmoun - 4

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Hosseini - 6
Torabi - 6
Ghoochannejhad - 6

Azmoun needs to develop more. He is a good striker and a talent, but unless things are perfectly placed, or someone defending him mis-steps, he rarely creates something out of nothing. We need to become more coherent and cohesive as a unit. But overall the Chinese did not look as mighty as we made them out to be and I imagine they will have a hard time qualifying if that was the best they have.

[persiandream]

One question remains..how did this Team Score 2 in Korea? Did Korea Take it lightly being 3-0 up?

The other scandal..how did we manage not to score against this crappy Team?

MOTM pouraliganji

Worst torabi..

Btw Milad mamadi did nothing for offense hajsafi would habe been the better Option

China was clearly overhyped!!

2 points lost all..

[rezabmehr]

WTF is wrong with JB?
As much as I love this guy but he is trying too hard to be our clutch player. He looked nervous, never settled down and really careless on finishing and crosses. Masoud set him up beautifully and all he had to do was to keep it on the ground.

[Camran khan]

Shojaei did pretty well. I think Rezaeian was much better than last game. Was dissapointed by Milad Mohammadi, every time he went up his crosses would be very low and some Chinese player would intercept them. Jahanbakhsh crosses were seriously awful..

[Nokhodi]

One question remains..how did this Team Score 2 in Korea? Did Korea Take it lightly being 3-0 up?

The other scandal..how did we manage not to score against this crappy Team?

MOTM pouraliganji

Worst torabi..

Btw Milad mamadi did nothing for offense hajsafi would habe been the better Option

China was clearly overhyped!!

2 points lost all..

Torabi? The guy who took the game to the Chinese and got a few shots in?

And Hajsafi the better option? WHAT? After the disaster he was in the Qatar game?

[Babak agha]

Beiravand 6.5- not really tested but was shaky on two occasions
Rezaeian 4.5 - Horrible crosses, no control on the ball during rushes and two bad mistakes that almost cost us a goal and a penalty.
Montazeri 7 - solid but got injured pretty fast
PAG 7.5 - Was solid throughout the whole game and dangerous from corners.
Husseini 7.5 - Same as PAG and Montazeri
Mohammadi 6.5 - did ok defensively, is insanely fast, however should work on his crosses.
Ando 7 - Did what he had to do
Ezzatolahi 6 - Really should up his game, more fighting spirit and work on his passes.
Shojaei first half 7.5, second half 4.5
Amiri 5.5 - didn't do anything special
Azmoun 6 - Good positioning, should've done more with his chance
JB 4.5 - Terrible game, wrong passes, wrong crosses (like last game, only this time he didn't make up for it).

Subs
Hosseini see above
Gucci 6.5 - good hustle as always, however had one two moments that he could have done better.
Torabi 4.5 - didn't do anything good, expect of his shot.

[1908]

I can't stand azmoun..
I find him selfish

[Doctor DOOM]

iWe threw away two precious points in a game that the opponents had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to threaten us with (they might be even weaker than syria!!!)! I know CQ will build china up as if he faced Brazil, to justify this poor performance.
And I blame everyone, the players as well as the coach.

I really dont know what is CQ's problem. Ks he so insecure about his decisions that he feels compelled to persist with them , no matter how glaringly wrong some of them may prove to be. I am referring to his insistence to keep low performing starters, for WAY TOO LONG
in a game that wastes previous time.
And this is not about this campaign. He has always behaved this way. But to make it clearer,iin the last game, he stuck with Taromi for 70+ valuable minutes that by all common sense and logic should not have stayed on the pitch to see the halftime even.

Then, today, he persisted with the invisible Amiri (no thanks to pp) for another massive amount of minutes that could have seen better players actually DO something.
This utterly indefensible wastage of time means his teams only start to seriously threaten by the last 10-15 minutes of any game!!! What coach plans for just 10-15 minutes when they have the whole 90 minutes to utilize and take advantage of???
I could even include Shojaei as a candidate who could have been replaced at halftime. Yes, in the 1st half he had a couple of good passes and a decent header. But that's all. He got back to his old self of Mr. Turnover!
But CQ wasted 70+ minutes to sub him!

And the result shd speak for itself. Once Torabi and RGN came in, the team became more incisive and energetic, more threatening and almost scored even. But we had to wait for 80 minutes to see this urgency! WHY????

Is he insecure that he feels it is admission of defeat that he subs a starter by minute 35-40? He shd not. But I cant remember the last time he actually subbed anyone in the 1st half, aside from injuries.

I just dont rate highly a coach who vets his shit together only the last 10 minutes of a match. Have the guts and make changes as soon as you see them. Show spine and fortitude. So forgive me if I dont fall for that bizarre charade at minute 87 where he was shown to be angry and shouting and urging the players to attack!! Agha jan, if you were so insistent on getting the points and attacking, then you should have at least taken care of YOUR OWN END OF BUSINESS FIRST. You just wasted 75 minutes on two pow performers, both in attack!

What's more distressing is with CQ's indecisive attitude and our players' complacency, things could have gone south real bad if the ref had called Hosseini's high tackle inside our box, where his boot did connect (even though Softly) with the Chinese attacker who promptly fell down. I mean we have had pretty outrageous calls made against us by refs in Asia. And it wouldnt have surprised us that much if some ref had called the penalty.
Unjust? yes. But possible? absolutely. Therefore CQ dithering over substitutions till the last 10-15 minutes of a match could have cost us the game! That's why I dont understand this near criminal wastage of time and missing of opportunities by CQ.


China had only one plan, which was to use its pacey forward behind our defense. But that meant we needed to attack their goal. The problem was that our team was so defensive that they hardly found much chance to put this in action. We always had 6-7 players more close to our goal than theirs.

After the first 15-20 minutes that revealed China's impotency, our players instead of getting more aggressive to search for the goal, actually became complacent. They were too relaxed and showed no urgency. To the extent that one would have though they were 4-0 up playing against kids!
They wasted too much time exchanging passes between the defense and two DM's, who were mostly bunched together inside our half! That's precious opportunity wasted.

I admit the pitch was absolutely horrendous. But what about so many poor crosses? That had nothing to do with the horrible pitch. Why everyone failed at sending simple crosses?


Despite our domination of the pitch, and 11 shots, how many were actually on target to test the reserve keeper who looked very shaky? Why didn't we test him seriously? Tragic!



Thanks to a weak group, we're leading the table with 4 points. But we SHOULD HAVE. been 6 by all accounts and fairness. We just threw away a significant lead of two points, for no reason but too much caution by the coach and complacency by players.

[Kiarash]

Very disappointing result. The Chinese were even close to winning the game, while they had nothing to bring in the rest of the game, we let go 3 very valuable and easy points. The first 2 games have been far from good, after 5 years it is still unclear to me what the plan is of CQ with Iran.

Does he even have a plan? How is 0-0 vs. China acceptable? He gets paid millions just to get 1 point? We are probably going to qualify for the World Cup, but in an unconvincing style.

The only plus of today is that Syria held South Korea 0-0 and that we got away with that foul that would give China a penalty. If we didn't mess up so many chances, we would have taken advantage of the Korean's drop of points against a weak Syrian side. Now we put ourselves in a tougher position, unnecessary. Ugh.

[fostovar]

Same old same old... Just when Iran needs to pull away with easy points they fail to do so, leaving the fans nervous through out qualification as usual.. TM has never won their 2 first game ever in qualification openers. Just baffling..

[Bi-honar]

All I know is that we got 2 of our 3 toughest qualifying matches coming up, everyone and I mean everyone including CQ need to pick up their game.

We've got Uzbekistan away and South Korea in Tehran in October and neither of those are matches we can afford to play like our last two.

I hope to see CQ switch back to a more balanced/experienced squad for those two matches and I like to see Gucci start.

I'm not panicking yet!

[04041374]

We need a friendly before the Uzbekistan game to give another players a chance. I feel that CQ has sticked to players like Dejagah and Shojaei as CAM or Amiri as LM, because other options (Shojaeian, Soroush, Bakhtiar) haven't been capped enough for a long time or doesn't trust them enough.

I hope Vouria gets back to his old himself. Rezaeian won't be reliable against UZB and SK.

[khosro]

Beiravand 6.5- not really tested but was shaky on two occasions
Rezaeian 4.5 - Horrible crosses, no control on the ball during rushes and two bad mistakes that almost cost us a goal and a penalty.
Montazeri 7 - solid but got injured pretty fast
PAG 7.5 - Was solid throughout the whole game and dangerous from corners.
Husseini 7.5 - Same as PAG and Montazeri
Mohammadi 6.5 - did ok defensively, is insanely fast, however should work on his crosses.
Ando 7 - Did what he had to do
Ezzatolahi 6 - Really should up his game, more fighting spirit and work on his passes.
Shojaei first half 7.5, second half 4.5
Amiri 5.5 - didn't do anything special
Azmoun 6 - Good positioning, should've done more with his chance
JB 4.5 - Terrible game, wrong passes, wrong crosses (like last game, only this time he didn't make up for it).
Subs
Hosseini see above
Gucci 6.5 - good hustle as always, however had one two moments that he could have done better.
Torabi 4.5 - didn't do anything good, expect of his shot.

Tend to agree with this assessment.

In terms of changes ...

I would not start with Shojaei (he can blow hot and cold but tends to fade towards the end of matches).

JB has had two awful matches (goal aside) to the point when I question his place in the side. However, I'd stick with him as he genuinely can't play any worse than he has.

Amiri is not first team TM material. Squad maybe but not a starter. Despite worries about his fitness and the quality of opposition that he faces on a regular basis Dejagah should be brought back in to replace Amiri (assuming he recovers in time).

If Gucci is to remain and option on the bench then he needs to be introduced earlier in the match. Bringing him on with 20 mins and expecting him to deliver each and every time is unrealistic. This boils down to CQ.

I'm not up to date on the IPL but what happened to Heydari? Could he still do a job instead of Rezaeian? He played better today than against Qatar but I'm not convinced.

When all is said and done I still have faith ...

[AminGP]

Rezaian did much better than last game. The only mistake he had was his awful pass to Beiravand. JB and Azmoun were really poor as well and Amiri was invisible. He should have brought in Torabi a lot sooner and I would have rathered seen RGN instead of Azmoun and kept Masoud.

CQ needs to substitute a lot sooner when he sees certain players aren't playing well.

[Parham10]

azmoun missed one half-chance off the pass from shojaei and people are calling for his head LOOOL. In the last 2 games he has barely been given ANY service. He is an Ibra style player not a giovinco or a tevez who make their own chances