Who thinks we play too defensively?
Watching the world cup last time how we almost should have won against Argentina with Messi's wonderstrike and our clear disallowed penalty etc I was proud of our team and thought we look dangerous attacking. We had the better chances. I was quite disappointed with our negative play in the other games too, believing if we'd bothered to attack more we might have got more out of those games.
Likewise this year, yes the result ended up being positive against Morocco through our defend and counter attacking but against Spain it was embarrassing. 11 men in the box? Does Carlos really have that little faith in Iranian football players? Spains goal was 100% inevitable. Play with 11 men in the box and it's very likely attack after attack after attack eventually there'll be a penalty or lucky deflection and this is EXACTLY what happened.
Once we started attacking however, it was a completely different game. I wonder what would've happened if we played a slightly less cautious game and had more attacking bursts in the first half rather than parking the bus. We had some very very good chances and I am not the only one to feel that if the game had gone on another 15mins we'd have equalised.
Yes of course I respect Carlos and maybe the sad truth is that we just don't have good enough players yet and maybe had we tried to be more attacking we'd have suffered the fate of the arabs with a 5-0 loss or Panama with the 6-1 loss. But maybe, just maybe, we are failing to realise our potential. Maybe our players are actually better than we think and with just a little belief we could do more.
I like Carlos but I feel he is underestimating us and think we are more dangerous in attack than he believes. Attack is often the best form of defence. Putting 11 men in the box is not clever.
Watching the world cup last time how we almost should have won against Argentina with Messi's wonderstrike and our clear disallowed penalty etc I was proud of our team and thought we look dangerous attacking. We had the better chances. I was quite disappointed with our negative play in the other games too, believing if we'd bothered to attack more we might have got more out of those games.
Likewise this year, yes the result ended up being positive against Morocco through our defend and counter attacking but against Spain it was embarrassing. 11 men in the box? Does Carlos really have that little faith in Iranian football players? Spains goal was 100% inevitable. Play with 11 men in the box and it's very likely attack after attack after attack eventually there'll be a penalty or lucky deflection and this is EXACTLY what happened.
Once we started attacking however, it was a completely different game. I wonder what would've happened if we played a slightly less cautious game and had more attacking bursts in the first half rather than parking the bus. We had some very very good chances and I am not the only one to feel that if the game had gone on another 15mins we'd have equalised.
Yes of course I respect Carlos and maybe the sad truth is that we just don't have good enough players yet and maybe had we tried to be more attacking we'd have suffered the fate of the arabs with a 5-0 loss or Panama with the 6-1 loss. But maybe, just maybe, we are failing to realise our potential. Maybe our players are actually better than we think and with just a little belief we could do more.
I like Carlos but I feel he is underestimating us and think we are more dangerous in attack than he believes. Attack is often the best form of defence. Putting 11 men in the box is not clever.
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