Iran Vs. Lithuania

[Bi-honar]

This was the lineup Carlos used, it's official:

-------------------Beiranvand-------------
Torabi - Pouraliganji - Cheshmi - HajSafi
---------Ebrahimi------- Shojaei----------
----Jahanbakhsh - Ghoddos - Taremi----
---------------Azmoun--------------------

20' Taremi out Vahid Amiri in
46' Torabi out Rezaeian in
46' Shojaei out Ansarifard in
46' HajSafi out Mohammadi in
55' Jahanbakhsh out Dejagah in

Official according to who bro?! Torabi in RB makes absolutely no sense at all and Ehsan hasn't played LB since forever. This is a line-up for a 2-7-1 and that's if we can count Cheshmi as a full defender!

[Z Joon]

Torabi has actually played RB couple of times in his career. In his first TM caps he has played RB once at least I think?

[St_Mark]

Torabi has actually played RB couple of times in his career. In his first TM caps he has played RB once at least I think?

for U23 ,

http://www.persianfootball.com/forum...m-TM&p=2555178

[KeonKish]

People talk about Sigmund Freud and Jean Piaget as being the most influential psychologists of the 20th century valy goh khordan

In my opinion, Queiroz's mind games are wayyy more influential. Very soon we will be studying Queiroz for our medical entrance exams.

Damesh garm

Quieroz’s Levels of mind games

-different names (bahador)
- different and weird jersey numbers
- putting players in weird ass positions
- consistently using lineups that are unpredictable
- starting players that nobody expected to start
- destroying corrupt IR officials

Queiroz is about to reach the top of maslows pyramid 🤣🤣🤣🤣


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[Bi-honar]

Torabi has actually played RB couple of times in his career. In his first TM caps he has played RB once at least I think?

I also played goalie quite a few times bro but I'd still be a terrible pick to represent TM in goal in the WC!

Joking aside, what I'm trying to say is that it would make no sense at all for CQ to have put Torabi in that position at this stage a week before the tournament - none whatsoever.

[DireStraits]

Most sites say he was subbed out at the 80th.....

I used the following source when I posted that.
http://90tv.ir/news/457004/%D8%A8%D8...81%D8%B1%D8%AF

[Bi-honar]

Full match report from the Lithuanian Football Federation... this is the only source of news I trust so far, especially because it has a full report - it's with Google translate so I fixed the title, penalty means shot and blow to the head is a header!


LITHUANIAN TEAM DEFEATED BY IRAN IN EXHIBITION

The Lithuanian team in Moscow, Russia, has tried its best with the World Cup championship. According to the Iranian delegation, the match was held without the viewers, they were not filmed and photographed.

The match was held at the Spartak Club Training Base, next to the Spartak Stadium, where the World Cup will take place. There were a lot of police officers in the stadium and squad accesses, although the match was held behind the closed door and the viewers were not allowed to enter the match. When the Lithuanian team arrived on the pitch, security inspections were carried out at least at airports.

Composition of the Lithuanian team: Tomas Švedkauskas, Algis Jankauskas (46 minutes Tom Mikuckis), Justinas Januševskis, Egidijus Vaitkunas (46 minutes Rolandas Baravykas), Valdemaras Borovskis, Artūras Žulpa, Modestas Vorobjovas (46 minutes by Povilas Leimonas), Mantas Kuklys (87 min Simonas Paulius), Ernestas Veliulis (60 minutes Vykintas Slivka), Justas Lasickas and Karolis Laukzemis (60 minutes Simonas Urbys).
In stock: Ignas Plukas, Dziugas Bartkus, Edvinas Girdvainis, Ovidius Verbickas, Arvydas Novikovas, Fedoras Černychas, Darvydas Šernas.

Lithuanian national team coach Edgaras Jankauskas has made it possible for fewer players to play in Iran after two Baltic Cup tournament matches. Two football players - goalkeeper T. Švedkauskas and defender J. Januszevskis - debuted in the national team of Lithuania.

For the Iranian team this is the last match against the world championship. In Group B, Iran will meet with Morocco, Portugal and Spain.

Iran's starting lineup: Ali Beiranvand, Morteza Pouraliganji, Ramin Rezaeian, Roozbeh Cheshmi, Milad Mohammadi, Masoud Shojaei, Omid Ebrahim, Ehsan Hajsafi, Sardar Azmoun, Alireza Jahanbakhsh, Mahdi Taremi.

Portuguese coach of the Iranian team, Carlos Queiroz, has made the most of the squad. In the attack, the most successful Dutch football player Alireza Jahanbakhsh from Alkmaar AZ club and Sardar Azmoun from Kazan Rubin, in safety - Masoud Shojaei from the Athens AEK and Ehsan Hajsafi from Olympiakos Pirate.

The match was judged by a brigade from Russia. Square judge A. Eskov.
At the beginning of the game, the game was mostly held in the middle of the square. The ball was more controlled by the Lithuanian team, but the chance to create was not successful. The first attempt was 9 minutes when Iran's attacker, M. Taremi, struck a penalty, but this did not cause a bigger problem for goalkeeper T. Švedkauskai.

12 mins M. Kuklys shot a free-kick on the opponent's penalty, but the Iranian goalkeeper took the ball.

21 min V. Borovskis is torn down to the penalty line. A. Jankauskas tried to strike his head after a free kick, but the blow did not succeed. The Lithuanians continued the attacks and soon again attacked, but the transfer to the penalty area for J. Lasick was not precise and he did not reach the ball. The opponents responded by mid-afternoon attacks. After a dangerous transfer from the edge, Iran's strikers failed to reach the ball. After a mistake on the part of the Iranian leader, A. Jahanbakhsh, at the penalty area, struck from the age of 14. distance, the ball crossed the gate.

43 mins J. Lasickas earned a corner. A. Jankauskas was shot under the corner head, but the shot was not accurate.

At the end of the quarter, a yellow card was punished by K. Laukžemis.
The first half ended without goal 0: 0.

During the break E. Jankauskas replaced three players. Instead of E. Vaitkūnas, A. Jankauskas and M. Vorobjov, T. Mikuckis, R. Baravykas and P. Leimonas ran into the square.

The second half was more active by Lithuanians. 49 mins after the raised angular first strike from 14 years of age blocked the rivals, and J. Lasicko kicked the ball over the gate.

57 min The mistake of the Lithuanians in the penalty area was almost over. M. Kuklys dashed past his opponent as he thought it fortunately cuts to one, almost every two of the away decision. However, the referee captured a sideline.
Soon a great combination was organized by the Lithuanian national team. After the transfer to the penalty area, the ball was accurately transferred back to the penalty line, but P. Leimon hit the ball over the gate.
Another danger to the Iranian gate was 59 minutes. after corner From the first attack, the Iranians defended, followed by one more transfer to the penalty area towards Jan Janevsky, but he did not reach the ball and the blow to the head was inaccurate.

60 min two more changes in the ranks of Lithuania. E. Veliulis was replaced by V. Slivka, and K. Laukžemis - S. Urbys.

62 min Iran's soccer players had the most realistic chance. Their dangerous blow from the age of 16 distance slipped over the gate.

Up to 70 minutes all six of the changes allowed in the control matches were performed by the Iranian team.

80 min Attack by Iranian team. P. Leimon knocked the ball away from the opponent's foot, the Iranian man fell by asking for a penalty. By the judge's decision, everything went according to the rules.

85 min rivals picked up the corner. Lithuanians shot the ball from the penalty area, an Iranian from 17 years old. the distance was not accurately shot.

87 min Simonas Paulius replaced M. Kukliai, from the last captain's hand was taken over by T. Mikuckis.
At the end of the match a goal was scored in the Lithuanian gates. After a prolonged Iranian attack, K. Ansarifard struck a penalty shot from the penalty area - the ball slammed the net in the net. 88 min. Iran advanced 1-0.
The result is unchanged until the end of the match. The Lithuanian team lost to Iran 0: 1.
The next control match will be played by Lithuanian footballers on June 12 in Warsaw with the Polish team, which will be landing at the World Championship. H Group will play against the Senegal, Colombia and Japan.

[Bi-honar]

Another article from the LFF:

E. JANKAUSKAS: "A GOOD MATCH WITH A STRONG OPPONENT"

The Lithuanian national team has successfully fought against the Iranian footballers who are preparing for the World Cup, but last minute they missed the goal and dropped 0: 1.

Edgaras Jankauskas, the captain of the team, has made it possible for more players to come out less well, who did not dislike him."There was a good match with a very strong opponent," the coach said. - In this game we tried a lot of new players and their debut was really successful. Of course, it's unfortunate that at the end of the match we missed the scoring, we did not use our games, which we created a lot. A lot of matches in a row do not succeed in realization, lack of excellence in completing the attack. I appreciate the game well, I do not have to meet with the World Champion on a daily basis."

The goalkeeper Tomas Švedkauskas and the defender Justinas Januševskis were wearing the Lithuanian uniform for the first time.

"Today, we had two debutants who played for the first time in the team, they had a successful match. Of course, when you are in a bad match, the mood is bad, "said E. Jankauskas

The coach was glad that the team could play a lot of time with the ball: "We have used the opportunity to play with the ball, we understood how we can go to the attack, there were a number of good attacks. I repeat, unfortunately, we did not finish the attacks. In the goal, football is blurry and, no matter how well you play, soccer rotate around goals. We want to beat the goals and we need to be very tired. "

For several days in Russia, Lithuanian team players will cross into Poland, where they will play the last control matches with the Polish on June 12 in Warsaw's capital, Poland. For the forward Poles, Roberto Lewandowski, this will be a favorite on the planet. This match is from 19:00. TV6 TV will be directly broadcast.

[Irandoust]

From the match report, we can conclude that Lithuania were not as easy as we thought there were going to be. It appears that we struggled to create opportunities to score and that our goal came in from a penalty kick. Another of our usual low scoring game which ended in our favor.
With our combined friendlies in the last couple of months and the knowledge that CQ has over his team, it is safe to say that Iran is about 90 percent ready to face Morocco which has been described by almost all of the Iranian football analysts and fans alike, to be our most important game of the 2018 world cup.
The victory will entirely depend on how focus we will be on taking opportunities to score, as well as how we will control the game after we score first.
Not conceding an early goal will be very crucial.

[euphory]

i think we needed to work on defense for sure.. and this was right on time.

[Philosophy_King]

Full match report from the Lithuanian Football Federation... this is the only source of news I trust so far, especially because it has a full report - it's with Google translate so I fixed the title, penalty means shot and blow to the head is a header!


LITHUANIAN TEAM DEFEATED BY IRAN IN EXHIBITION

The Lithuanian team in Moscow, Russia, has tried its best with the World Cup championship. According to the Iranian delegation, the match was held without the viewers, they were not filmed and photographed.

The match was held at the Spartak Club Training Base, next to the Spartak Stadium, where the World Cup will take place. There were a lot of police officers in the stadium and squad accesses, although the match was held behind the closed door and the viewers were not allowed to enter the match. When the Lithuanian team arrived on the pitch, security inspections were carried out at least at airports.

Composition of the Lithuanian team: Tomas Švedkauskas, Algis Jankauskas (46 minutes Tom Mikuckis), Justinas Januševskis, Egidijus Vaitkunas (46 minutes Rolandas Baravykas), Valdemaras Borovskis, Artūras Žulpa, Modestas Vorobjovas (46 minutes by Povilas Leimonas), Mantas Kuklys (87 min Simonas Paulius), Ernestas Veliulis (60 minutes Vykintas Slivka), Justas Lasickas and Karolis Laukzemis (60 minutes Simonas Urbys).
In stock: Ignas Plukas, Dziugas Bartkus, Edvinas Girdvainis, Ovidius Verbickas, Arvydas Novikovas, Fedoras Černychas, Darvydas Šernas.

Lithuanian national team coach Edgaras Jankauskas has made it possible for fewer players to play in Iran after two Baltic Cup tournament matches. Two football players - goalkeeper T. Švedkauskas and defender J. Januszevskis - debuted in the national team of Lithuania.

For the Iranian team this is the last match against the world championship. In Group B, Iran will meet with Morocco, Portugal and Spain.

Iran's starting lineup: Ali Beiranvand, Morteza Pouraliganji, Ramin Rezaeian, Roozbeh Cheshmi, Milad Mohammadi, Masoud Shojaei, Omid Ebrahim, Ehsan Hajsafi, Sardar Azmoun, Alireza Jahanbakhsh, Mahdi Taremi.

Portuguese coach of the Iranian team, Carlos Queiroz, has made the most of the squad. In the attack, the most successful Dutch football player Alireza Jahanbakhsh from Alkmaar AZ club and Sardar Azmoun from Kazan Rubin, in safety - Masoud Shojaei from the Athens AEK and Ehsan Hajsafi from Olympiakos Pirate.

The match was judged by a brigade from Russia. Square judge A. Eskov.
At the beginning of the game, the game was mostly held in the middle of the square. The ball was more controlled by the Lithuanian team, but the chance to create was not successful. The first attempt was 9 minutes when Iran's attacker, M. Taremi, struck a penalty, but this did not cause a bigger problem for goalkeeper T. Švedkauskai.

12 mins M. Kuklys shot a free-kick on the opponent's penalty, but the Iranian goalkeeper took the ball.

21 min V. Borovskis is torn down to the penalty line. A. Jankauskas tried to strike his head after a free kick, but the blow did not succeed. The Lithuanians continued the attacks and soon again attacked, but the transfer to the penalty area for J. Lasick was not precise and he did not reach the ball. The opponents responded by mid-afternoon attacks. After a dangerous transfer from the edge, Iran's strikers failed to reach the ball. After a mistake on the part of the Iranian leader, A. Jahanbakhsh, at the penalty area, struck from the age of 14. distance, the ball crossed the gate.

43 mins J. Lasickas earned a corner. A. Jankauskas was shot under the corner head, but the shot was not accurate.

At the end of the quarter, a yellow card was punished by K. Laukžemis.
The first half ended without goal 0: 0.

During the break E. Jankauskas replaced three players. Instead of E. Vaitkūnas, A. Jankauskas and M. Vorobjov, T. Mikuckis, R. Baravykas and P. Leimonas ran into the square.

The second half was more active by Lithuanians. 49 mins after the raised angular first strike from 14 years of age blocked the rivals, and J. Lasicko kicked the ball over the gate.

57 min The mistake of the Lithuanians in the penalty area was almost over. M. Kuklys dashed past his opponent as he thought it fortunately cuts to one, almost every two of the away decision. However, the referee captured a sideline.
Soon a great combination was organized by the Lithuanian national team. After the transfer to the penalty area, the ball was accurately transferred back to the penalty line, but P. Leimon hit the ball over the gate.
Another danger to the Iranian gate was 59 minutes. after corner From the first attack, the Iranians defended, followed by one more transfer to the penalty area towards Jan Janevsky, but he did not reach the ball and the blow to the head was inaccurate.

60 min two more changes in the ranks of Lithuania. E. Veliulis was replaced by V. Slivka, and K. Laukžemis - S. Urbys.

62 min Iran's soccer players had the most realistic chance. Their dangerous blow from the age of 16 distance slipped over the gate.

Up to 70 minutes all six of the changes allowed in the control matches were performed by the Iranian team.

80 min Attack by Iranian team. P. Leimon knocked the ball away from the opponent's foot, the Iranian man fell by asking for a penalty. By the judge's decision, everything went according to the rules.

85 min rivals picked up the corner. Lithuanians shot the ball from the penalty area, an Iranian from 17 years old. the distance was not accurately shot.

87 min Simonas Paulius replaced M. Kukliai, from the last captain's hand was taken over by T. Mikuckis.
At the end of the match a goal was scored in the Lithuanian gates. After a prolonged Iranian attack, K. Ansarifard struck a penalty shot from the penalty area - the ball slammed the net in the net. 88 min. Iran advanced 1-0.
The result is unchanged until the end of the match. The Lithuanian team lost to Iran 0: 1.
The next control match will be played by Lithuanian footballers on June 12 in Warsaw with the Polish team, which will be landing at the World Championship. H Group will play against the Senegal, Colombia and Japan.

Baba dige kheyli khak be sar shodim agar jelo Lithauni intori
bazi konim.

[pres80]

I believe it was a Lithuanian report so not actually reporting Iran's chances. Also said Penalty came after prolonged period of attack.

Don't read too much into it.

All I will say is I do not like Cheshmi in our team at all. Hope he proves us all wrong.

[Kian Persepolis]

Penalty in the translation just means shot, not an actual penalty.

[milad_b]

http://www.the-afc.com/competitions/...over-lithuania

So taremi is not injured.

[DireStraits]

Cheshmi and PAG has played full time which means CQ wants to see them under constant attack for instance against Spain and Portogal. LB and RB
has been subbed. In the end Iran scores to get every thing want. I am not confident with Cheshmi either but it seems like CQ has a plan for him.