World Cup 2022 Qualifier: Iran - Hong Kong; Info, Updates & Live Reports (03.06.21)

[ParthianDE]

Another water break. Makes 2 for Bahrain and none for Iran. Our management should raise this issue!

[OFFSIDE_1]

Just count this game as a friendly, and it's a good thing we faced an easy opponent. The players didn't have to go through a rough game, and they played relaxed and it showed :-)

[Iran_19]

این خیابانی الاغ هنوز نفهمیده گلهای بازی کامبوج که زدیم و میزنیم اهمیت نداره.
یه مشت گوسفند...

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[sedee91]

This performance was the best that IFF can pay for with Skocic. I'll be surprised if we make it to the next round.

[teammelli91]

I think Skocic made the right substitutions. He’s doing well in that regard. Knowing who to switch in and out. You can tell Dragan wants to have Sardar and Mehdi as close to 100% as he can have vs Bahrain. There is a possibility Hashemian and Bagheri suggested they go 65-75% to avoid injury. We don’t know. But yeah, they didn’t do much today except Mehdi was clearly fouled inside the box and the referee clearly ignored it lol.

I’m still confident and optimistic!

[Medzdidz]

The early subs of ARJ and Ezza says to me that they both definitely are starting the Bahrain game - two solid performances in there 60 mins on the pitch. Also good to see as these were two players with a point to prove after not being selected/injured for previous camps.

[ParthianDE]

Bahrain winning 8:0. Their confidence level is going to be sky high against Iran.

[Iran_19]

We have to rest pretty much most starters vs Cambodia.

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[ParthianDE]

OK. Signing out. Will be back against Bahrain. Go TM!!!

[Nokhodi]

Bahrain winning 8:0. Their confidence level is going to be sky high against Iran.

We beat Cambodia 14-0. What good did that do for our confidence?

[metallica69]

In all this year I never thought we will be in a position to be worried about getting out of the group stages in anything Asian.

It’s all on the players, they need to decide if they want to play in the next World Cup, if we can’t make it out this first round then we don’t deserve to be in the World Cup. Yes we are playing in Bahrain it’s unfortunate, we will also have to play in Qatar for the World Cup so what. Nothing must stop us from wanting to only win as Asia’s second best team.

[Kavian]

Iran got what it wanted out of the game which was predictable and very much achievable even if you had Mes Rafsanjan there representing Iran ... but the other side of the story revealed the team still needs time to build and play as a strong side. The performance today was sub par and disappointing to say the least .. And I know the pitch was bad and the weather was hot!! So what!!

[diz]

Some take-aways from today's match:

Credit to Dragan for his starting lineup and captain choice. Also credit to him for having a solid 5 subs relatively early on (the 3rd goal leadup with 3 player touches were all subs).

It was clear that the heat was stifling. Players were sluggish. Most of the starters will only have ~60 minutes in them for the next match. It is paramount that Dragan have a similar early second half plan for subs. Fortunately, we have a relatively deep bench to allow for this.

The choice of captainship and rotation was good. ARJ to start with and Karim to end with. Both with good language and diplomatic skills.

The "park the bus" approach will be used by every other team. It was clear that it was easily disrupting our passing game and frustrating our forwards. We have to be tighter and quicker in our lead ups to the goal. The corners will have to be laser sharp to Mehdi and Sardar (our best aerial team members). Just taking the corner in the general box area and hoping it falls in front of a TM player won't work with 10 defenders in the box.

It's the clear the Refs won't give any major calls to Iran (how many PK's should we have been awarded? I lost count). We need to rely on goals and goals only.

The effect of the lack of friendlies was evident. As others have said, the HK match was essentially a friendly/warm up for Bahrain. Similarly, the Cambodia match will be the friendly/warm up for Iraq.

[The]

The most f'ed up part about the whole match:
No water breaks in 38c weather.

Insanity.

[teammelli91]

In all this year I never thought we will be in a position to be worried about getting out of the group stages in anything Asian.
It’s all on the players, they need to decide if they want to play in the next World Cup, if we can’t make it out this first round then we don’t deserve to be in the World Cup. Yes we are playing in Bahrain it’s unfortunate, we will also have to play in Qatar for the World Cup so what. Nothing must stop us from wanting to only win as Asia’s second best team.

You can thank this man for that:


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