Iran vs UAE post match ratings

[Iranianarsenal11]

Whew... Ugly win but a win is a win! I'm actually a bit impressed with Skocic's adjustment in the 2nd half after Sadegh's dumb second yellow

Post your match ratings here!

Skocic: 7.5, Great adjustments and it's really not his fault that we couldn't score an insurance goal or two thanks to poor finishing from Gholizadeh or Taremi's second half miss. Others may argue he should've taken the yellow carded players out at half-time but I disagree, I think the yellow carded players just needed to be more disciplined but oh well, we played with 10 men and still defended well.

Abedzadeh: 8, was so smooth, comfortable, relaxed, and had excellent positioning. Much better distribution from Abedzadeh than I've seen with Beiro tbh

Sadegh: 4, awful game from Moharrami. Was caught out of position multiple times, weak passes and giveaways, and as everyone saw, had two wreckless challenges that lead to a red card.

Kanaani: 8.5 (MOTM), excellent defensively. Really helped save a few of the UAE attacks in the second half. Great passing, touches and decent pace as well. Bravo!

Noorafkan: 7.5, was surprised seeing him at CB but he really impressed me. Great defending and man marking and had a nice header saved by Kasif. Sometimes his passes are a bit rough but it helps our players practice their touch at least

Milad: 6, I'll give Milad a 6 because he had a much much better second half, but man, Milad was clueless offensively almost the entire game. And when there is a press, he almost immediately loses or gives up the ball. Great defensive work though in the second half.

Ezatolahi: 5, not a great game from Ezatolahi either.. Had three giveaways in the first half and had a slip that lead to a UAE counter attacking chance. Could've gotten a red as well if he wasn't subbed out. Hysterically, his substitute was even worse than he was! Wow, we need some backup CDM/CM badly.. Omid Ebrahimi or Ali Karimi kojaeiin?

Ghoddos: 7, great technique and always has the right idea. Was unlucky to be subbed for Sadegh's red and was rightfully frustrated... Was a decent game for him overall

Amiri: 6.5, not as bad as most people think, but he also just hasn't been the same beast he was the first 4-6 qualifying matches. Still, he runs his ass off and has such a high defensive workrate. Had some giveaways again but wins challenges left and right.

ARJ: 7, another fine game from ARJ today. Had some nice defensive challenges he won and had a few shots towards goal as well. I like this version of ARJ way more now that he's more aggressive... Still, I wish he had some more pace to him at times.

Gholizadeh: 6.5, what can I say.. lol. At times you're reminded of Ali Karimi and at other times you're reminded of Yaghoub Karimi. So inconsistent really.. He plays as if it's pickup and often times refuses to pass the ball which pisses me off. Still, he made some nice chances and had a few good passes, touches and a nice header that lead to the goal so I can't give him lower than a 6.5.

Taremi: 8, what a finish for his first goal! Definitely the best player on the pitch. In fact, he's so good that sometimes I think he would do a better job in central midfield than our current midfielders... Still a bit inconsistent with his finishing but very solid nonetheless.

SUBS:

Hardani: 6.5, bad positioning but good 1 v 1 defending. Overall he did a nice job slotting in for Sadegh

Nourollahi: 4.5, worst player on the pitch in the second half if we don't include Sadegh. Wow, he was atrocious! Horrible touches, bad passes, terrible giveaways! He almost gave the game away and created chances for UAE on the counter

Yazdani: N/A

[Medzdidz]

I agree with your scores apart from I would give Ezatolahi a 6 and Gholizadeh a 5.5.

[Ostad_Goosfand]

Maybe part of nourollahis shabab al ahli contract incentives was to perform poorly vs iran..jk

[ehsan singapore]

skocic: 5 , team was flat overall, second half we were poor, his substitution did not make sense, you have ghoddos doing great he is taken off , instead of amiri or gholizadeh who did nothing really. the coach lack techtics and i think he is a puppet, i promise you all the luck he have will be expose either with korea game or the world cup. our defense is still weak , we dont have 2 stable CB. shoja is not our option and doing he played omid as CB. really? he is a one trick pony, he cant adjust and change tactics. i promise you he will get exposed in world cup.

abedzadeh: 7 , good overall just still slow when he get the ball pause abit to much and shooting can improve as well
sadegi : 1 very poor got a red card over all not tm material
kaani: 7.5 was good , stable did his job
omid : 5 .nomal nothing special keep passing the ball back wards drive me crazy
milad : 6 was ok over all nothing special from him
ezatolahi : 5 average performence was ok , nothing special
ghoddos: 7.5 was good, passning was good, i personally think since skocic dont run the team and bagheri and hashemian are favouring pp players he has become a scape goat for the coach. he is the only one he can bully. why must he come out on the 51 ,in when we he was doing most of the running. i am just pissed.
amiri: 4.5 nothing special he is not a 90 min player he should have came off the 51 min or gholizadeh. but because he play for pp they favour him they let him play. over all did nothing
ARJ: 8 (MOM)- was great run and work hard, try to create shot over all was good but we lack midfield hence was hard for him to get the ball and create
gholizadeh : 2 ,poor and he is selfish. first of all he is a one trick pony. he cant use the right foot at all, we saw 90 min he could not stop the ball with his right foot. he dribble and creat space instead of passing he wanna shot, he is selfish and really did nothing the whole game except the header that hit the post. he should have been off the 51 min super poor.

taremi : 7 was good scored but miss a big one second half, look abit tired also at the end

[PEJ]

I also agree, but I thought Amiri was solid. The guy was running all over the pitch. He covered a lot of ground in the second half. At this juncture it seems that everyone has bad giveaways. But Gholi’s are sooooo bad. His football IQ is pretty low. Noorafkan has surprised me the most. The guy will be back in Europe soon.

[ehsan singapore]

I also agree, but I thought Amiri was solid. The guy was running all over the pitch. He covered a lot of ground in the second half. At this juncture it seems that everyone has bad giveaways. But Gholi’s are sooooo bad. His football IQ is pretty low. Noorafkan has surprised me the most. The guy will be back in Europe soon.

noorafkhan wont be back because he cant pass forward all his balls are backward and he is slow i promise you he wont be back

[The]

Brian, you are a much kinder man than me...

[Kavian]

Skocic and coaching staff: Sub par! afraid of making changes. Starting line up was questionable.
Abedzadeh: Good, not really tested
Sadegh: Bi Mokh!
Kanaani: Solid as alwasy
Noorafkan: Out of position in defense, nervous
Milad: Not the same old Milad. Every other pass was a hospital pass!!
Ezatolahi: Looked tired, overweight and out of shape!
Ghoddos: Okay but nothing special today
Amiri: His fouls from behind are a chronic decease!
ARJ: Good, takes good shots but always straight at the golie.
Gholizadeh: bi-mokh .. too much dribbling! didnt deliver a single healthy ball to Taremi
Taremi: Great finisher but needs proper service

SUBS:
Hardani: Not TM material
Nourollahi: I wonder why the coach is starting a player who just recovered from a raspatory decease!! Like we have no other player!! Poor guy struggled!
Yazdani: He should have been the started in defense


Sorry to be harsh, but Skocic is starting to remind me of Branko with his confusing tactics and late and ineffective subs.

This team needs a lot of improvement to go world cup. We will get owned by top teams. If we face Morocco again, it will be 3-0 if we are lucky!

[KeonKish]

Everyone besides

Good: Taremi, ARJ, Ghoddos, Noorafkan, Abedzadeh, Kaanani

Horrible: Gholizadeh, Milad, Moharrami, Noorolahi

Meh: Ezatollahi, Hardani


Team looked unmotivated and sloppy from the get go!

Noorafkan was good but we should have played a real CB because milad and sadegh were killing us in possesion. The importance of your fullbacks operating on all cylinders cannot be underestimated.

Especially for our team, when our fullbacks are poor our entire team is poor because we simply dont have the quality in midfield to keep the ball without our fullbacks/

Amiri was very sloppy today which then lead to ezatollahi having to cover more ground than hes used to and kept clashing with amiri. Saed was also sloppy today.

Ghoddos was fine but wasnt able to do much in such a sloppy game.

Gholizadeh should be benched for a long time. He is so so sloppy, selfish, and wasteful on the ball.


ARJ and Kaanani have really stepped up and calm and collected, same with abedzadeh who was positioned perfectly for every ball today.

[ehsan singapore]

Skocic and coaching staff: Sub par! afraid of making changes. Starting line up was questionable.
Abedzadeh: Good, not really tested
Sadegh: Bi Mokh!
Kanaani: Solid as alwasy
Noorafkan: Out of position in defense, nervous
Milad: Not the same old Milad. Every other pass was a hospital pass!!
Ezatolahi: Looked tired, overweight and out of shape!
Ghoddos: Okay but nothing special today
Amiri: His fouls from behind are a chronic decease!
ARJ: Good, takes good shots but always straight at the golie.
Gholizadeh: bi-mokh .. too much dribbling! didnt deliver a single healthy ball to Taremi
Taremi: Great finisher but needs proper service

SUBS:
Hardani: Not TM material
Nourollahi: I wonder why the coach is starting a player who just recovered from a raspatory decease!! Like we have no other player!! Poor guy struggled!
Yazdani: He should have been the started in defense


Sorry to be harsh, but Skocic is starting to remind me of Branko with his confusing tactics and late and ineffective subs.

This team needs a lot of improvement to go world cup. We will get owned by top teams. If we face Morocco again, it will be 3-0 if we are lucky!

the issue we have is that skocic is not the manager there are others behind the sceme running the show

[Karimi 8]

Abedzadeh: 8.5, his positioning made is saves look easy, when some weren't. His ball distribution is the best I've ever seen from a TM GK. If you listen to the pass players / coaches called for, he sent it spotlessly there everytime. He also has a lot of confidence and great exits. He has really pushed Beiro aside for now.

Sadegh: 1, summary of his play "ye pa do pa" then lose the ball, and foul. Idiotic red card in a NO STRESS game. Almost put us at risk for losing our first place standing, shame on him!

Kanaani: 8, VERY solid today, really saved us at times

Noorafkan: 7, I thought he was A LOT better than Shoja, and was surprised he could play as CB. A left-footed CB playing on the LCB position is very helpful, good option to test out again, but hoping to see M. Hosseini be given a try soon too.

Milad: 5, I don't understand why he looks so lost all the time, he is a shadow of himself defensively, and horrible moving forward. Just had some good basic coverage at times.

Ezatolahi: 7, I thought he controlled midfield well, the yellow really put him at risk. We saw how much his presence was missed when he came off.

Ghoddos: 6.5 he was decent and had to be sacrificed for the change of formation, shame as he had some nice passes today & seemed to be finding his rhythm

Amiri: 6, nothing special defensively or moving forward today

ARJ: 7.5, he was the only sensible person alongside Taremi in attack, overall good game, but has to be careful about his aggression

Gholizadeh: 2, just HORRIBLE. He didn't make a single correct pass, he either over hit or under hit EVERYTHING. Extremely selfish moving forward, horrible shots, and couldn't even finish a tap in. It is almost like he chooses to make plays difficult, which is infuriating. The only other player I have seen with this tendency is Masoud Shojaei.

Taremi: 8, Good awareness to finish the rebound, non-stop hustle, good effective dribbles. If he had Azmoun next to him today, we would've scored 1-2 more goals.

SUBS:

Hardani: 3, he was the RB correct? If so, he looked slow and the UAE substitute beat him dangerously on multiple occasions

Nourollahi: 4, some decent coverage accompanied by HORRIBLE passes,

Yazdani: N/A

Overall:
- First 20 minutes of the game were sloppy, then we gained control and scored, luckily at the best time possible. UAE grassrolled and couldn't score on us even when they needed to win and were a man up, however after the red we just sat back to defend our lead and the game was uninspiring to say the least. Glad we left with the 3 points, our players really need to look at the standings and realize that this isn't over, we NEED to finish top of the group! I am so disappointed in our red card, how do you get a red card when you are under NO pressure and have the lead at home?

[Mahsaa]

Enough is enough man, im tired of situations like the last one of Gholizadeh, why do we waste 100% chances ? These players need to get punished !!
Also our defense especiall LB and RB are real BS

I see serious problems in some players, and why doesnt Skocic use Ansarifard and Zahedi ???!! I mean Karim deserves it !!

[Doctor DOOM]

As inconsequential as this game was in our qualification (talk of seeding aside), I actually think it had some new lessons for us and TM staff as well.

1. I was very happy to see we get a red card to see how we would react and play in such a situation.
As far as I remember this is our first time to play wt 10 men under Skocic.

The meaningless an needless way it came aside (Moharami really didn't need to lunge for the ball. In that area, ball going away from our half, we were ahead by a goal), it was interesting to see the team keep the opponents at bay and defend a man short.
This always needed in team building.
We did all the right things except one crucial matter that I blame for some carelessness on the part of a couple of players like Gholi. And that is possession football.
Many times when we regained the ball, some players instead of passing the ball around, actually tried to start attacks.
and actually this almost led to FOUR great chances to score.
Now perhaps this lax attitude is due to having already qualified. But I hope the staff does drill this to them that keeping the possession is an excellent way of relieving the team from mounting pressure.


2. Nourafkan as CB?
Whaaaaaaaaat??? I was so surprised and actually was saying is Skocic insane, when he had obvious CB choices instead of shifting Omid to CB.
But boy am I pleasantly surprised to see Omid fulfil the duties of CB with such quality that made the missing regular CB forgettable
Wow. For me, he was one of the 3 Men of the match.
I knew he was versatile. But not in CB also.

3- Team attitude even against the odds
I must applaud the team for keeping at it, going forward and nearly ending the game 5-0.
And had it not been for some tired legs and tired brains of a certain Ali, we could have had such a scoreline.

I hope the staff goes over these moments and teaches Gholi a lesson to be more in service of the team, keep focus and pick the right moves instead of selfishness and futile showboating.
But again, I wonder if he would do the same if we really neede the points and the game was a decisive one. So let's cut the chap a litle slack.

4- I expected more from our trio in midfield. And especially Amiri had at best an average or below average game.
But his running and energy can compensate for some of this.

5- Men of the match for me;
JB , Taremi and Nourafkan
Our captain is truly leading by example. Damn you stupid Brighton and your f&$k face coach potthead.
And thank you Feyenoord.

[ehsan singapore]

Everyone besides

Good: Taremi, ARJ, Ghoddos, Noorafkan, Abedzadeh, Kaanani

Horrible: Gholizadeh, Milad, Moharrami, Noorolahi

Meh: Ezatollahi, Hardani


Team looked unmotivated and sloppy from the get go!

Noorafkan was good but we should have played a real CB because milad and sadegh were killing us in possesion. The importance of your fullbacks operating on all cylinders cannot be underestimated.

Especially for our team, when our fullbacks are poor our entire team is poor because we simply dont have the quality in midfield to keep the ball without our fullbacks/

Amiri was very sloppy today which then lead to ezatollahi having to cover more ground than hes used to and kept clashing with amiri. Saed was also sloppy today.

Ghoddos was fine but wasnt able to do much in such a sloppy game.

Gholizadeh should be benched for a long time. He is so so sloppy, selfish, and wasteful on the ball.


ARJ and Kaanani have really stepped up and calm and collected, same with abedzadeh who was positioned perfectly for every ball today.

we bring sayadmanesh we should bench gholizadeh

[Ostad_Goosfand]

Enough is enough man, im tired of situations like the last one of Gholizadeh, why do we waste 100% chances ? These players need to get punished !!
Also our defense especiall LB and RB are real BS

I see serious problems in some players, and why doesnt Skocic use Ansarifard and Zahedi ???!! I mean Karim deserves it !!

it seems our team takes it easy and is careless when we are winning. once we go up every player becomes selfish and wants to score for themselves and they act like game is over.