Iran vs Panama Player Ratings | Post Match Discussion

[Z Joon]

Beiranvand - 6

Ghafouri - 5 (average)
Cheshmi - 5.5 (bad challenge he made even though it was a questionable penalty call, alright otherwise)
Pouraliganji - 5 (worse than usual, lost his man few times)
Aghaei - 6 (Better from him)

Abdollahzadeh - 6.5 (Decent, fought well in midfield, interesting option to have. He was solid vs Russia as well on his debut)
Ezatollahi - 6 (Still gives away dumb fouls, his physicality is important for us, some good distributions)
Dejagah - 7.5 (Good game from him, gets the ball out of tight spaces well)

Ghoddos - 7 (One of the better players, great goal, out-muscled and lost the ball carelessly on couple of occasions)
Taremi - 6 (Couple of great runs)
Ansarifard - 5 (Usual TM Karim, some good link-up play, terrible end product)

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Hosseini - 6
Rezaeian - 6
Karimi - 6
Jahanbakhsh - 5
Amiri - 5
Azmoun - 5


Overall great 1st 25 min, average to poor the rest of the match

[Kiarash]

I liked the fighting spirit of Abdollahzadeh, he impressed me. He is a decent back up or perhaps even a 1st choice to have as CM together with Saeid if he keeps up this performance.

On the other hand Jahanbakhsh continues to disappoint again. In the 20 minutes he played, he did not make any correct pass. He looked so careless, in total contrast with how he runs and works hard for AZ.

Edit: forgot to mention Beiranvand. No comment on his exits.

[ehsan singapore]

defenders all 5, dejagah was good, ghodos was very good, however taremi again disapoint and the biggest dissapointment was karim, he had a chance to make it 3-0 he didnt score and then panama score

[KC McElroy]

We are superior. We always were.

[Love TM]

Beiranvand - 6

Ghafouri - 4 Didnt go forward that much and gave away possession. Neither he nor Ramin are given on this position.
Cheshmi - 4 Poor game, wasnt calm and gave away a penalty. I can see him make mistakes in the WC and I dont want him to start.
Pouraliganji - 5 Not a great game, but not awful either.
Aghaei - 6 Out of all the defenders, Aghaei did best, but I miss Mohammadi, we have a real threat on the wing when he plays.

Abdollahzadeh - 6.5 An ok game. I prefer Ebrahimi or Hajsafi though.
Ezzi - 5,5 - Didnt see him that much in the game, but I really miss Teymorian and Nekounam...
Dejagah - 8 MOTM. How can he be this great when he doesnt have a club? Its crazy, he is head and shoulder above all the other players.

Ghoddos - 6 Great goal and he did some good things in the beginning. I have higher expectations though, he disappeared after the first 25 minutes. I believe that he will become like Jahanbakhsh, great in his club but lost in TM.
Taremi - 4 - He did alright on a few occasions, but he gaves away possession to easily. One of his bad games.
Ansarifard - 3,5 I really like Ansarifard, but he just isnt TM material. I hate to say it.

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Hosseini - 6
Rezaeian - 4 Tries to cross every chance he gets.
Karimi - 4 Clearly out of form.
Jahanbakhsh - 4
Amiri - 4
Azmoun - 4


We started out really good and it gave hope, but we slowly became worse and this game didnt show a team that can make it to the second round of the WC. I really hope that CQ will try his best eleven and see how they work together. Its time for the team to gel soon and the experimental lineups shouldnt continue much longer.

[inarsenewetrust]

Overall:
Panamanians were strong physically , but not that great , pretty much what we expected.
Our team isn't built to keep possession , we just don't have the players . This is the most apparent thing. Our success will come from defending as a team and having fast attacking combinations ( like the ghoddos goal )
Abdollahzadeh is a viable option in central midfield . Performed better than like of hajsafi , ebrahimi.
Dejagah is quality , and this match was good for him , Karim, and taremi to get chemistry with ghoddos .
Beiranvand was overall good , which is not something I have said about him recently .
PAG needs montazeri or hosseini alongside . The pag-cheshmi duo needs a lot more work , but has potential to be ready for AC.

For Venezuela , who will definitely be a challenge .

-----beiranvand-----

Ramin---PAG----hosseini---milad ( if fit ) / aghaei

------karimi------ezatolahi----

---ARJ-----------Dejagah-------taremi

---------------sardar--------

Subs : ghoddos for taremi
Gucci for sardar
Abdollahzadeh for karimi

[rjafari]

would love to try someone else in goal for venezuela - I'm never confidence with beiranvand on crosses.
and I know penalties are always hard but he was on the ground before the kick was taken.

[inarsenewetrust]

would love to try someone else in goal for venezuela - I'm never confidence with beiranvand on crosses.
and I know penalties are always hard but he was on the ground before the kick was taken.

I feel like ppl are now just trying to find something wrong with his performance , even when he does fine. What he did on the pk is called guessing and it is the most common tactic used by goalkeepers. He went the right way. His exits were good. He was also very good against Russia and stopped one certain goal

[_Navid_]

We lost our dominance as soon as Panama started playing their A team.

Beiranvand - 6.5

Ghafouri - 5
Cheshmi - 6
Pouraliganji - 6
Aghaei - 6

Abdollahzadeh - 7
Ezatollahi - 7
Dejagah - 7

Ghoddos - 5.5
Taremi - 5
Ansarifard - 4

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Hosseini - 5
Rezaeian - 5
Karimi - 5
Jahanbakhsh - 5
Amiri - 5
Azmoun - 5

[Leicester City]

Jahanbakhsh is the Sergio Augero of Iran.

[inarsenewetrust]

We lost our dominance as soon as Panama started playing their A team.

Beiranvand - 6.5

Ghafouri - 5
Cheshmi - 6
Pouraliganji - 6
Aghaei - 6

Abdollahzadeh - 7
Ezatollahi - 7
Dejagah - 7

Ghoddos - 5.5
Taremi - 5
Ansarifard - 4

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Hosseini - 5
Rezaeian - 5
Karimi - 5
Jahanbakhsh - 5
Amiri - 5
Azmoun - 5

To be fair , abdollahzadeh,aghaei,cheshmi,ansarifard are not starters for us either

[04041374]

Beiranvand - 6

Ghafouri - 5
Pouraliganji - 6
Cheshmi - 3
Aghaei - 6

Ezatollahi - 7
Abdollahzadeh - 7

Dejagah - 8
Ghoddos - 7
Taremi - 6

Ansarifard - 5

Hosseini - 6
Rezaeian - 5
Azmoun - 5
Jahanbakhsh - 5
Karimi - 5
Amiri - 5

[AllStarMomo]

This game showed us a lot:

We had some good moves. Some of our combination game was very good. Ghoddos played a lot better than in his first game. I think he will get stronger and stronger.
I had the feeling Dejagah is little bit slow. But was good. I hope he can find a club to play cause I still think he needs some training and games.
I didnt like our defense. To be honest we are really weak in defending. We played against the second team of Panama and couldnt stop them.

But a good friendly over all!

[TM4LIFE]

Great first half, we were creating some dangerous chances, were confident on the ball, and didn't give panamanians any room to play.

Abysmal second half. Our possession went from 61% to less than 50%. Embarassing that we can't even hold onto the ball against Panama B side. To add to this, Aghaei had horrid positioning on the left side, all of panama's most dangerous attacked came from there. Not impressed at all by Karimi, other than being big and physical he doesn't contribute much at all when we have possession. I think Ghoddos + AJB + Rezaeian has potential to be a good combination on the right side, we saw sparks of that at times.

[sirvan]

Ansarifard was involved in both goals, he got a penalty and gave Ghoddos a beautiful assist, he gets a 6 from me, he was the best player in the first half, i missed the second half though