World Cup Qualifier: Uzbekistan - Iran; Info, Updates and Live Reports (06.10.2016)

[eerooni]

UZBEKS are toast. I can feel it.

[ehsan singapore]

almost same colour as Qatar

yup it is

[Nader25]

Will see if our ball thief Gucci can come with some nice suprises even this time

[Z Joon]

Azmoun, Ahmedov and Denisov messing around

[GolfePersique]

probable line-up (AFC)

[GolfePersique]

Samvel Babayan, Uzbekistan
“Thursday’s game see us come up against the group favorites. They are the number one ranked team in Asia and they have many high level players playing at European teams. But we have studied Iran very well and we will try to show good football.

“They are all strong teams at this stage of qualifying. For example, Syria showed a good performance against both us and Korea Republic in the first two matches. Each game we play becomes the most important game at this stage. But we are thinking only of Iran now. We watched many of their games and we will try to find way to beat them. My players are ready for any situation in the match and our aim is to win.”



Carlos Queiroz, Iran
“We will play against the best team in our group on Thursday. Uzbekistan won their first two matches and are leaders in Group A. Nonetheless, my team will try to secure the win for the Iranian people. My team is clearly improving year on year. When I began to work in Iran we had only one player playing for a European side, now we have 11 who are at various clubs in Europe.

“[Ashkan] Dejagah and [Alireza] Jahanbakhsh were injured some time ago, but they have recovered and are ready to play against Uzbekistan. It is good news for Iran and bad news for Uzbekistan. Of course, Iran has star players aside from those two, we are a team not individuals, and we have no player selection issues for the game.”

[Siavash]

A 1-0 win for TM would be very nice.

[Z Joon]

Sergeev and Rashidov are very tall attackers, so, you will see a lot of long crosses flying in, which is awfully awkward and tiring for the defenders to deal with.

Our CBs Hosseini and especially Pouraliganji are very good in the air, should be interesting

[AhadUzbek]

Our CBs Hosseini and especially Pouraliganji are very good in the air, should be interesting

I suppose so...Sergeev frequently scores with headers. Our goal against Qatar also came from a header, so....that should be interesting.

[Leopard]

We shall win this match but I hope Uzbeks will qualify as the second team. That is the only country that is close to us culturally. Just go to YouTube and listen to uzb traditional music with poems from saadi

[Abtin]

Holy shit Adidas looks good on our guys!

[Farhad-7]

Sergeev and Rashidov are very tall attackers, so, you will see a lot of long crosses flying in, which is awfully awkward and tiring for the defenders to deal with.

That's true..but Iranian defenders are used to this type of plays. Big % of Crosses and tall physical players in Iranian league from low to high divisions. Teams still opt for it though headers don't get scored often due to physical battles.

I think chance of Iran conceding headers is low but you never know. Our LB and RB are vulnerable to set pieces.

[babak_iran]

Uzbekistan's chances in this game will come from either set plays or quick team play, we have to be smart defensively. As for offence, you never know what to expect from TM, so I will judge on that after the game.

[serghe]

I like espn3 shows every games besides irans why do they do this to us!??? (((((

FYI, ESPN3 is showing the Iran - Korea match on Tuesday.

[Nader25]

the match korea vs qatar is going to be a real thriller to watch, the qataries have finally to do something. This would probably be their last chance to get some hope left for the qualification. Koreans are in real truble I guess.