AFC Asian Cup 2019 Semi Final: Iran - Japan; Info, Updates & Live Reports (28.01.19)

[Iran_19]

Honestly, I've taken it easy on Khiabani, but f*** him for saying that.
These are the same idiot Iranians who live comfortably in Iran and then apply as gay refugees the moment they set foot out of Iran.

Kids like Ashkan and Saman and Gucci love Iran alot more than the vultures running Iran.

K.sher o Khariat hadi o marzi nadare, i am not lately enjoying Adel but man, eliminating him and giving the power to such as khiabani, we should expect such a BS.


Kids like Gucci and Ashkan are more Iranian than many.

[Philosophy_King]

Iran did not play with the same intensity as they do against Koreans. Disappointing

We dominated the game till minute 55th. After they scored we lost it mentally. Anyway i still believe that
Iran is at least on par with Japan, one game doesnt change that. if we could play them again things would be different.

[sarbaz]

I know one thing for sure

as much I hate to support one soosmar over another,
And over Japan , but I am happy Qatar
Beat UAE and I am rooting for them to win the AC.

[Tehranto]

Honestly, I've taken it easy on Khiabani, but f*** him for saying that.
These are the same idiot Iranians who live comfortably in Iran and then apply as gay refugees the moment they set foot out of Iran.

Kids like Ashkan and Saman and Gucci love Iran alot more than the vultures running Iran.

You never want to say it bro - but IR is the cancer that has infiltrated all aspects of our society.

The more ignorant and entitled you are - the more jobs you get in IR Iran!

[Tehranto]

Mohammad Hasan Ansarifard was the guest at Khiabani's program for AC semi between UAE and Qatar, he mentioned Qatar invested a lot but also gave the nationality to many of their players from different nations,
Khiabani said, we did the same thing(referring to Ashkan, Saman and Gucci), akheh Olagh In Koja aan Koja!
Seda O Sima daste ki oftade!!!

Find me the clip of this - I want to TERRR them on Twitter ... thank you.

C**KSUCKERS!!

Ajaab oghdeyi and envious and jealous ...

[sarbaz]

I am starting to really really dislike Javad Khiabani

[Iran_19]

Find me the clip of this - I want to TERRR them on Twitter ... thank you.

C**KSUCKERS!!

Ajaab oghdeyi and envious and jealous ...

I watched it live, try to see if i can find the clip.

[DR Strangemoosh]

This loss to Japan pushes us down to 2nd in the ELO raings for the first time in a while:

https://www.eloratings.net/

Down from 18th to 22nd
Japan go up from 24th to 19th

[Philosophy_King]

This loss to Japan pushes us down to 2nd in the ELO raings for the first time in a while:

https://www.eloratings.net/

Down from 18th to 22nd
Japan go up from 24th to 19th

The Japs literally dethroned us as Kings of Asia.

[shahin2000]

The Japs literally dethroned us as Kings of Asia.

When were we ever King of Asia... let's wake up and be real for Christ sake. Japan advanced to 2nd round of World Cup and was 20 minutes from beating Belgium. What did we do? We played pack the bus in all 3 of our games. In 3 games, we scored an own goal by Morocco, and scored a dubious PK against Portugal and yet we are king of asia.

[Philosophy_King]

When were we ever King of Asia... let's wake up and be real for Christ sake. Japan advanced to 2nd round of World Cup and was 20 minutes from beating Belgium. What did we do? We played pack the bus in all 3 of our games. In 3 games, we scored an own goal by Morocco, and scored a dubious PK against Portugal and yet we are king of asia.

I was referring to the rankings. I fully agree that Japan had better WC-Performance than us, yet we performed much
better than KSA, Ausis !

[Salman-e-Farsi]

The fact that Qatar conceded not a single goal at this time is impressing.

[tmfan]

This game could have been uglier. Japan missed their best attacker Nakajima this time. He is going to move to Qatar for 35M euros. Record transfer for an Asian player. Goal.com says it's an indirect route to PSG, in a way to avoid financial fairplay rules. I've watched his play on Youtube and he reminds me of Karimi. There was a Japan A/B dispute on this thread but at least they weren't 100%. They missed an attacker who could move to PSG.

PSG set to indirectly sign Japan star Nakajima
1 hour ago 03:27
Paris Saint-Germain are nearing a deal to indirectly add Japan star Shoya Nakajima, according to AS.
Nakajima is set to move from Portuguese side Portimonense to Qatar outfit Al Duhail, which is under the same ownership as PSG.
The move is seen as a precursor to a move to the French giants, allowing them to avoid the Financial Fair Play issues that would come with signing him now.

[OFFSIDE_1]

When were we ever King of Asia... let's wake up and be real for Christ sake. Japan advanced to 2nd round of World Cup and was 20 minutes from beating Belgium. What did we do? We played pack the bus in all 3 of our games. In 3 games, we scored an own goal by Morocco, and scored a dubious PK against Portugal and yet we are king of asia.

it's irrelevant who scored the goal against Morocco. If the Moroccon player had an own goal, it was because of our ability to create this mistake within their backline. You sound as if Iran is the FIRST team ever to cause a team to have an own goal. Bad headers, deflections, lack of communication all can cause an own goal. Forcing your opponent into an error is part of the game.


Capitalizing on your opponent's error is part of the game.

[forzatm]

When were we ever King of Asia... let's wake up and be real for Christ sake. Japan advanced to 2nd round of World Cup and was 20 minutes from beating Belgium. What did we do? We played pack the bus in all 3 of our games. In 3 games, we scored an own goal by Morocco, and scored a dubious PK against Portugal and yet we are king of asia.

That PK was 100% correct but it wasn't intentional. I agree, we were lucky to get a draw against Portugal.