I'm not saying that Skocic is doing everything right, but so far I see that the man has a plan. Especially his game against Bosnia was really good and showed his tactical finesse. I don't know why so many are complaining about the lineup in the first half.
Skocic's plan was to start the game defensively, the fact that the team played nervously was certainly not Skocic's plan to accuse him of not having a system is simply nonsense.
He knew that Bahrain is still fit especially in the first half, they will close the center and not even give Sardar and Mehdi space to receive the ball.
Skocic thought to himself, we must prevent that we run a lot with the ball and instead try to reach Sardar and Mehdi with long balls, so that they block the ball and bounce it back to the center or to Amiri as well as Gholi. In Germany they call this "der zweite Ball" you can see it's a causal tacitc you learn at the DFB.
This is a very good tactic if you take into account the weather conditions and the defensive tactics of the opponent.
Bahrain in turn thought Iran must attack and will throw everything forward will get tired and then they can put a counterattack and Iran gets nervous, Skocic knew this will be Bahrains matchplan.
At half time Skocic realized that his tactics were well thought out, but due to the limitation of some players, Milo, Beiro, Shoja and Hajisafi did not work, the build up did not work, Sardar and Mehdi could block few balls and had to constantly chase the balls, which they received a moment ago instead of being played on, Gholi and Amiri could not get involved either because the center was too dense, nevertheless Skocic's tactics would have worked if Mehdi scored the 100% chance. He rightly brought Ghoddos and brought some new dynamics into the game, he knew now Mehdi and Sardar need a ball distributor who prevents them from having to waste their energy helping out at the back, that worked out wonderfully. I for one saw a very good tactical performance yesterday and could fully understand what Skocic had planned. But as always there is a discrepancy between a good plan and the implementation and actually people criticize the latter but forget about the plan.
Skocic's plan was to start the game defensively, the fact that the team played nervously was certainly not Skocic's plan to accuse him of not having a system is simply nonsense.
He knew that Bahrain is still fit especially in the first half, they will close the center and not even give Sardar and Mehdi space to receive the ball.
Skocic thought to himself, we must prevent that we run a lot with the ball and instead try to reach Sardar and Mehdi with long balls, so that they block the ball and bounce it back to the center or to Amiri as well as Gholi. In Germany they call this "der zweite Ball" you can see it's a causal tacitc you learn at the DFB.
This is a very good tactic if you take into account the weather conditions and the defensive tactics of the opponent.
Bahrain in turn thought Iran must attack and will throw everything forward will get tired and then they can put a counterattack and Iran gets nervous, Skocic knew this will be Bahrains matchplan.
At half time Skocic realized that his tactics were well thought out, but due to the limitation of some players, Milo, Beiro, Shoja and Hajisafi did not work, the build up did not work, Sardar and Mehdi could block few balls and had to constantly chase the balls, which they received a moment ago instead of being played on, Gholi and Amiri could not get involved either because the center was too dense, nevertheless Skocic's tactics would have worked if Mehdi scored the 100% chance. He rightly brought Ghoddos and brought some new dynamics into the game, he knew now Mehdi and Sardar need a ball distributor who prevents them from having to waste their energy helping out at the back, that worked out wonderfully. I for one saw a very good tactical performance yesterday and could fully understand what Skocic had planned. But as always there is a discrepancy between a good plan and the implementation and actually people criticize the latter but forget about the plan.
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