If we beat Korea too we can climb up to 23rd in the next FIFA Rankings

[BacheLot]

Let's hope CQ uses more than six subs, so that game is not FIFA-sanctioned anymore. but this depends on the agreement between two federations.

fairly sure that is the case..!!
PNG game is very much considered experimental friendly especially so, considering it is in the run up to Syria match, where Carlos is expected to be able to afford some experimentation with his usual starting 11..!!

im pretty sure there will be 6 or probably more changes and no tv and any other official sort of reports from the game and ever reliable Bahador scoring all of our goals..!!

[Bessos]

Well, this sucks....

FIFA has now officially added the IRN - PNG match as a fixture. That means that instead of moving up another 4-5 spots in the ranking next month, we will most likely stay 27th or even drop in ranking next month (regardless of results)

I hope CQ or someone at IFF can still turn this into an unofficial fixture before it's too late.

Because it can make the difference in Iran being in the top 25 next month or not.

[YeCheesi Tala]

Losing points still doesn't make sense. Not gaining points at all would be much better.

Here is the way I see it/make sense of it.
In silicon valley right now many larger/more supported companies are buying out the newer ones trying to establish themselves. Most of the companies that are being bought by us are toss ups. Some of them could have succeeded if we left them alone, many of them would probably fail. In this process of elimination the company is constantly losing money. We aren't going against the top dogs or companies our level with the money we are spending on buying out the smaller ones (so negative points)...if you look at it via numbers. Of course we are also getting the brains of the companies and some of their ideas along the way.

***Same case for Iran ( top dog) going after little guy. Most often when top dogs go after small guys (not underdogs----if you take out underdogs you are still winning) you will be losing resources (hence in this case points).

[Kian Persepolis]

So what will our ranking be with the win over Papua New Guinea and the draw with Syria?

[Ejdeha]

We will have 797 points and drop 3 places to 30th, where as had we not played png n won against Syria we would have had 890 points and would climb to 21st! Meh

[Ejdeha]

This time if we beat Korea (and Syria) we can be as high as 14th! in the next FIFA rankings if the results of the teams above us go our way (great possibility of us being ranked higher than England and slight possibility of being ranked higher than Italy).

[ehsan singapore]

This time if we beat Korea (and Syria) we can be as high as 14th! in the next FIFA rankings if the results of the teams above us go our way (great possibility of us being ranked higher than England and slight possibility of being ranked higher than Italy).

we beat korea, we can beat syria, we have to push our self and beat korea

[Erfan11]

we beat korea, we can beat syria, we have to push our self and beat korea

We dont have to push ourselves we just need to be ourselves.

[ehsan singapore]

We dont have to push ourselves we just need to be ourselves.

that is true, but our normall expecially for cq is pushing the players

[Kiarash]

This time if we beat Korea (and Syria) we can be as high as 14th! in the next FIFA rankings if the results of the teams above us go our way (great possibility of us being ranked higher than England and slight possibility of being ranked higher than Italy).

This would be amazing for TM's image prior the World Cup.

[perspolis#1]

This would be amazing for TM's image prior the World Cup.

We would probably get some schtick by fanboys.."Lol who is Iran at 14th"

[ehsan singapore]

This would be amazing for TM's image prior the World Cup.

yup and now iran has too achieve 2 things from now till the last game against syria, dont lose and dont concide goal,if we get as high as 14th i am sure we can get many good friendlies and will be another record by cq

[AminGP]

The title of this thread should be "When we beat Korea" not if.

[Omid177]

Really looking forward to see how Korea is going to play under this new coach. They are very confident of beating us. Hopefully CQ won't experiment too much.

[persiangodfather]

too bad that we are the under dogs in this match and its highly unlikely that Korea will not put a big fight/ It will be very difficult match. we are the under dogs