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[_Navid_]

watch iran vs bosnia 2014. see who made the mistake for 2nd goal?

I have seen all his 116 games for TM since 2007 and that is the single TM game of his life that he wasn't great or very good but was average.
I bet you can't say that for any other player in our history.

[Foolad Khuzestan]

Nobody here thinks that CQ is maybe forced to select some players ?

[Leopard]

Why do some people believe that CQ should be not be subject to criticism? Stop with the god-complex.

probably for the same reason shah was not criticize-able and Rohani his majesty is not.
CQ should have watched the last two matches of Perspolis with and without Jalal against Qatari team..... I bet he did not watch even the video.
For now we support him and if he gets no result then we know what to do and what to say. So let's leave it like that for now. But we should remember that he was probably influenced by Schafer and he wanted to show something to Bronko. I shall wait till the world cup starts. If the results are god forbidden not good then Jalal and Ghafouri will be in Asian Cup

by the way kamyabinia and noorolahi were additional options but not considered

[darvish_gorgali]

I have seen all his 116 games for TM since 2007 and that is the single TM game of his life that he wasn't great or very good but was average.
I bet you can't say that for any other player in our history.

Again, I never said he doesn't deserved to be on TM. Actually I do. All I said was dont say if we dont have him, we will get embarrassed. We can get humiliated with him too. That's all i said.

[val]

I just fix this comment here to show how wrong this is without considering the current situation and overall picture of our NT. All those people who vote for this comment will see that.

Btw, no hard feeling toward you. I just think your comment is wrong.

Dear friend
Still not sure what you fixed in my statement or you think it was wrong
But

What matters is on june 15 both me and you will raise our shir o khorshid flags with pride and we want our team to win,
Hopefully our NT flaws are fixed by then so we can enjoy some good football by our boys

[kianstarwars]

CQ will choose a team not based on any vindictiveness and definitely not based on any lack of knowledge of the team members as he knows them better than most. He will definitely be selfish and worried about his legacy and therefore I expect his judgement to be the bast he has arrived at and based on what is available to him. Right?

[MR.S]

Seyed Jalal Hosseini in all honour but at some point you have to start to plan and make adjustments to secure the future.

[val]

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CQ will choose a team not based on any vindictiveness and definitely not based on any lack of knowledge of the team members as he knows them better than most. He will definitely be selfish and worried about his legacy and therefore I expect his judgement to be the best he has arrived at by what is available to him. Right?

You are correct my friend

He wants to be regarded as the best, and also might even get a renewal of his contract at least for the next 2 years, with bad results he will only embarrass himself and tarnish his resume

So he is not going to ruin everything he worked hard for all his life based on our assumption that he got out of the wrong side of his bed today

If you look all over social media its all anger and hate towards him

Imagine him reading them, psychologically he is king kong strong to be able to cope with all of that negativity

Most of the comments coming from our fellow iranians on social media is based on them thinking CQ got up today and said to himself hmm boy I really should get ride of seyd jalal to get even with branco but to shut up perspolis fans I should get rid of ghafouri and hosseini and to justify all of this I should also get rid of kaveh rezaie to say its not only Iran based players

If you managed zidane beckham both of the ronaldos roberto carlos figo and bunch of other best players of the world your entire life, and then all of sudden millions of emotional Iranians poured in to your facebook account and started swearing at your mother for not inviting hosseini or ghafouri to the team, I would still chose your judgement over theirs because those people can not even manage a bakery nevertheless coaching 11 players against the likes of messi while making them believe they can come out as winners

[AllStarMomo]

The squad has place for 23 players! The max of players playing will be 15 or max 16 in a tournament.
So there are some players who will not play a single second!
Lets say CQ has 13 players for the starting 11 who will play and has 3 subs for each game... That makes max of 19 dif players who can play. 4 players are likley to sit on the bench.
I would always take an old player for one of this spots. Even if he doesnt play, he can calm down the young players and the players who havent seen a WC or havent expirienced big tournaments.

[Iran_19]

These are the stats for 4 defenders in league.

[jahandoost]

These stats are the stats for 4 defenders in league.

Do you what stats are missing?

LEADERSHIP and EXPERIENCE

[Sly]

These are the stats for 4 defenders in league.

If I needed 2 good defenders and those stats were handed to me, without bias, I would pick Montazeri and Seyd Jalal. The latter has got high grades on every point in that list, on the contrary to Khanzadeh and Majid Hosseini who've had high grades only at 1 or 2 points but quite low on others.

[PersianLegion]

He will make it better than 2014 as he has more experience with the team and all of these players
We didnt expect to have that kind of defense at the world cup but we became extremely proud even by the end of the nigeria game
Prior to world cup 2014 at judging based on our crap friendly games in austria and how hard we advanced to the world cup everyone was saying
3-0 to nigeria
6-0 to argentina
But it was nothing like what we thought
Our players were physically so fit that most of said they never had experienced such harsh physical practice in their lives
Again he will do the same and even better ai think as this is his second world cup with Iran and his 3rd world cup all together surely he has learned from his mistakes

Dude your comments and comparison are wrong on so many different levels, that I don't know where to begin with. You just jump to conclusion without considering many factors. WC games are not just relying on names or coaches. It is about preparation, right player selection, fitness, professional management and many more.

Last world cup we had some seasonal veterans like Ando and Neko who both played many years in Europe. We had a younger, a lot more effective, and hungry for fame Reza Gucci, in addition to a beast named Ashkan Dejagah who played most of his youth years for Germany youth NTs and in Bundesliga/EPL so we had some good steam in MFs and defense. CQ dropped wiz kid Azmoun, our handyman Khalatbari, SS Zidan aka Jabbari, even Iranian wizard, Ali Karimi to include an injured Beikzadeh and a physically strong but low IQ player like Haghighi (not GK). We were packed by defensive players and lacked enough offensive player. We got what we came for; A 0-0 against a decent Nigeria and 0-1 loss against Messi (Argentina was not and is not the same team for about a decade), and finally we got embarrassed against Bosnia because everyone was desperately rushing to the opponent goal to get a win with a defensive line up!

Our core strength was built around Hosseini in defense, Neko and Ando in DM line and Ashkan Dejagah as our AMF. Shojai, Reza and somewhat JB were our wild cards who didn't make that much of difference.

Take a look at us now: Without Hosseini we are left only with PAG who is injury prone and lack enough international experience to hold our D line in WC. Both Neko and Ando are gone and we have only Saeed who can partially fill the place of Ando. We have no one to fill in Neko's place in the middle. We have tried many players but no one even came close to Neko even on his bad days. Our working horse Dejagah has not played any meaningful match for one year and prior to that he was playing in Qatar for 2-3 years. He is also injured and 31. Do I need to add anything else to this? We know Deja is not that untamed beast of WC 2014 for a long time. He has some steam left in him but not enough to pull it together with multiple injuries. Reza has not scored any meaningful goal for us in past 2 years except that lucky Qatari GK's blunder goal.

What do we have now: Yes we have a rocket in LB as Milmo, We better have a reliable defensive right back as Ghafouri (Rezaian sucks at defensive duties), we have a very young DM as Saeed who is missing the most crucial match vs Morocco, and we have a good RW as Jahanbakhsh who has not been tested against tough defensive teams. We have Azmoun who has a lot of talent but wasting his time in Russia and social media (he has lost weight/muscle and looks pale). We also have two injured players in the midfield as Shojai and Deja. If you also add Saman as wild card, I tell you we are busted. We look good on RW,FW and RB, LB but damaged all over the rest. Our opponents are also stronger compared to 2014. Spain is stronger than Argentina while our defense looks worst. Portugal is obviously stronger than Bosnia with CR7 and their defensive back line is a solid wall for any European team. Morocco is a lot stronger than Nigeria of 2014 and their defense is strongest in Africa.

Without a solid defense line or proper DM line and without a proper linking CMF/AMF to feed our good FWs, our team is like a machine with missing parts, no matter how good your engine is, if it can not deliver the power to the wheels, it will be a useless car.

[Iran_19]

Do you what stats are missing?

LEADERSHIP and EXPERIENCE

His stats are still better than Khanzadeh though!

[Iran_19]

The only and only reason explaining Khanzadeh and Pejman selection ahead of someone like Jalal is their ability of pushing attack!