Originally posted by shahabGAOL
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LOL Bring him back from where? He's happily coaching Columbia right now. Letting go of CQ was the biggest mistake ever. - Even when we had the best attackers (Mahdavikia, Karimi, Daei, Hashemian) + Rahman Rezaei (Seria A Caliber) in Defence, our defending as a team was always terrible, we struggled to beat low Asian teams, and stood ZERO chance against teams in the world cup.
CQ came in and new exactly what was needed for us to succeed, and how to use our strengths - Playing super disciplined as a team, and defending as a team.
Now, with attackers that aren't even as good (with the exception of Azmoun), not one single defender good enough for a top league, and a coach who wants to play attacking football, we're in for a disaster of a qualification campaign.
Sure, it took CQ a while to get us to where we were in 2018, but at least with his approach, other teams had next to zero clear chances to score during a match, and 1 goal from us was enough to scrape by as he was building our team.
With Wilmots, we're just giving away chance after chance to teams that wouldn't even see our goal in the past under CQ. Even if we improve over time with Wilmots, it's way too risky to completely overhaul the way our team has been playing for 10 years, and play pure attacking football. We're simply using the world cup qualification as a transition period to play a risky, attacking game we're not used to, and we might be out of world cup qualifying contention before we learn how to play under Wilmots (if we ever do).
I hope i'm wrong, but i can definitely see us not qualifying this time around. Even if we barely qualify (like we did with Branko), we won't stand a chance in the group stages.
I like being optimistic and hopefully will be proven wrong, but I really have a bad feeling about this.
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