Just rewatched both scenes. Very untypical for us.
1-0
Rezaeian is in possession in the own half. The Japanese are closing down the space around him well with 4 men. His pass finds Jahanbakhsh, who under pressure tries to play a 1-2 with Rezaeian, but due to the numerical advantage and the poor precision of the pass under pressure, Japan's no 7 gets the ball.
And now the strange thing is, Dejagah, Hajsafi and Ebrahimi neither challenge the player in possession at all, nor close down the space between the backline and the too high standing midfield at all for the next seconds, while Minamino sprints exactly there. Osako quickly drops back, lays the ball back to Minamino one-touch, who sprints forward dangerously completely left alone by our midfielders.
Kanaani comes our of an almost sweeper position to avoid the complete breakthrough...well, you know the rest.
Actually this chance should have never happened, had we aggressively fought for the ball and covered Minamino.
2-0
Second goal came from a somewhat poorly picked pass from Pouraliganji to Rezaeian, who barely had any good options, but picked the worst, going for a risky square pass with the outside of his foot, which is taken by the Japanese deep inside Iran's half, and then we were just reacting to quick and precise passing in our danger area.
Both goals came thanks to great pressing from Japan, forced turnovers and quick transition from defense to offense, which we failed to cope with appropriately.
Deservingly beaten, I'm afraid.
1-0
Rezaeian is in possession in the own half. The Japanese are closing down the space around him well with 4 men. His pass finds Jahanbakhsh, who under pressure tries to play a 1-2 with Rezaeian, but due to the numerical advantage and the poor precision of the pass under pressure, Japan's no 7 gets the ball.
And now the strange thing is, Dejagah, Hajsafi and Ebrahimi neither challenge the player in possession at all, nor close down the space between the backline and the too high standing midfield at all for the next seconds, while Minamino sprints exactly there. Osako quickly drops back, lays the ball back to Minamino one-touch, who sprints forward dangerously completely left alone by our midfielders.
Kanaani comes our of an almost sweeper position to avoid the complete breakthrough...well, you know the rest.
Actually this chance should have never happened, had we aggressively fought for the ball and covered Minamino.
2-0
Second goal came from a somewhat poorly picked pass from Pouraliganji to Rezaeian, who barely had any good options, but picked the worst, going for a risky square pass with the outside of his foot, which is taken by the Japanese deep inside Iran's half, and then we were just reacting to quick and precise passing in our danger area.
Both goals came thanks to great pressing from Japan, forced turnovers and quick transition from defense to offense, which we failed to cope with appropriately.
Deservingly beaten, I'm afraid.
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