World Cup 2022 Qualifier: Korea Republic - Iran (Info, Updates & Live Reports)

[kianstarwars]

I honestly don't understand what's wrong with people. We have managed to come back from the verge of elimination thanks to Skocic, and we are currently unbeaten in this round of qualifiers....and people still call him names? Truly astounding.

Because we are a sad bunch; hence we are in the condition we are. "Harf mard yeki st" is the motto of even our "intellectuals"(laat roshn fekr لاتروشنفکر ) who can not change their minds even when given historical truths about the past events.

[Futbaldoost]

Because we are a sad bunch; hence we are in the condition we are. "Harf mard yeki st" is the motto of even our "intellectuals"(laat roshn fekr لاتروشنفکر ) who can not change their minds even when given historical truths about the past events.

A bit of generalization, don't you think kianstarwars jaan? There are only two or three people on the forum who call Skocic "Croatian dallal". Many people, be it critical, have actually changed their minds and appreciate what he has done for TM. I would say majority of us here have the courage to change our minds openly and see it as a statement of character.

Go TM!

[Keshwardoost]

A bit of generalization, don't you think kianstarwars jaan? There are only two or three people on the forum who call Skocic "Croatian dallal". Many people, be it critical, have actually changed their minds and appreciate what he has done for TM. I would say majority of us here have the courage to change our minds openly and see it as a statement of character.
Go TM!

Great post!

[mehdi13]

Midtable PGL dallal coach, has no business sitting on TM bench.

If you remove one word, his followers will have nothing to say. He is truly a midtable IPL/Azadegan coach. What else to call him? 5 time IPL champion? 3 time ACL champion?

[Farzadfarhangni]

A bit of generalization, don't you think kianstarwars jaan? There are only two or three people on the forum who call Skocic "Croatian dallal". Many people, be it critical, have actually changed their minds and appreciate what he has done for TM. I would say majority of us here have the courage to change our minds openly and see it as a statement of character.

Go TM!

Footballdoost jan,

I hope you are right. But I have a feeling that a big majority of his critics have gone silent since they could not defend their position with Iran winning game after game and are waiting for the first loss to come back and tell us "see, I told you so". I hope I am wrong.

[Futbaldoost]

Footballdoost jan,

I hope you are right. But I have a feeling that a big majority of his critics have gone silent since they could not defend their position with Iran winning game after game and are waiting for the first loss to come back and tell us "see, I told you so". I hope I am wrong.

I hope so too Farzadfarhangni jaan ... and I hope that moment of first loss shall never come but life tells us it is more likely that it will come at some point and we shall see whether those in hiding will come out

Go TM!

[Farzadfarhangni]

If we have anything resembling a coherent modern gameplan, win or lose, I will praise him. The problem is that in majority of matches he's won, it all came down to individual moments of brilliance from the players.

Could be argued that in it self is a tactic ( letting the players run wild and figure it out on their own) and this works against Asian teams where as individuals our players are some of the most talented, but when you are playing in the world cup you can't rely on that as most teams are equally if not more individually talented than us. I'm not asking for Man City level of cohesion and gameplan, but we need something better than mid-2010s Brankoball. First round of Qualification, winning ugly didn't matter, because we were in a bad spot, but with us being in top of the group in this round, we have the opportunity to try to play with bit of complexity.


Sad thing in the Bosnia game we could actually see something resembling modern football, but really haven't seen much of that since, which blows my mind.

As Nokhodi already mentioned, I can see a very obvious game plan when I see Iran's games under Skocic. Players are not running wild and figuring it out for themselves in my opinion.

It is like this. I believe you liked CQ as much as I did. I am thinking about his biggest games. We don't say that he had no plans and it was a moment of individual brilliance by Ghochi to score against SK, do we? To score a goal, you need brilliance by a player. No tactic can lead you to walk or pass your way into a goal. Bekhoda, 90% of Man City's goals won't be goals without some brilliance by the players.

Sometimes we are so good that we make the opposition have a moment of brilliance like in the Morocco game!!! Those are my favorites.

[BacheLot]

Got a question regarding this line up. How did you guys manage to pull this out? is that coming from a source? or you guys were high?

personally love that Backline IF Hossaini is actually game-ready..! which is a huge IF..??
We badly need a formidable backline for this match, especially so a Solid RB to keep tabs of SK's main game-breaking threat Son..!!

even a more risky and questionable inclusions in GB's predicted line-up is having the mostly played-out, erratic HajSafi deputizing another defensively erratic and unstable Noorafkan at LB position ..!

GB has had a good record of guessing out TM line-ups in wcqs past .... so if those are the starters ? I'd be much more comfortable in moving the CM pieces around to something like this..

Amiri......HSooti........AhmadNour

[oracle]

daneshmand
has thought our players
patiance.

[oracle]

biravand
kanani
shoja
norafkan
danial es.
ahmad noor
sarlak
amiri
gholizadeh
allahyar
sardar.

IF SHOJA starts at rb
it shows OUR RB position
has fallen to point of no return
and we will get punish at the wc
with moharami there.

memo to daneshmand:
ramin rezaiyan
the issue of ramin dodol video
is solved. problem is moharami and
ramin have beef from their pp days
AND OFFCOURSE moharami
is daneshmand son.
good team at the wc will pick us apart
from the right side .

[milad_b]

Varzesh 3 seem to agree with us with their article posted 30 minutes ago.

https://www.varzesh3.com/news/181649...A9%D8%B1%D9%87

Lol How on earth did you manage to relate Varzesh3 to your prediction.

Varzesh3 has predicted 4-2-3-1 , you guys predicted 4-3-3 with totally different formation and players.

----------Abedzadeh----------
Shoja-Kanani-Majid-Noorafkan
--Mehdipoor-----Ahmadnoor---
Gholizade-----Vahid-------Allahyar
---------------Azmoun------------

[milad_b]

Milad-b jaan, actually knowing Skocic, this lineup is very realistic. He always goes by experience and players having had a chance to work together in a team in real match situations. In absence of friendlies, this has worked for him. He will not ditch an approach that has given him 14 wins and a tie. The only reason he may not start Shoja is if he is not fully match fit. I actually think he may go with Torabi instead of Sayaadmanesh and then bring Allahyar in as a sub depending how the match goes. AGAIN, this is not MY ideal lineup (and I understands that it is not yours either) yet Alex (the author) has a good understanding of how Skocic thinks. Also, Skocic sees and knows things that we do not see. I am hopeful that after April 1st, he starts experimenting with younger talent in friendlies since he will care much less about TM ranking and will be focused on WC results. I also think he will go into this match to win and wrap it up with a solid win in Mashahd next Tuesday. He is not a tie guy and he knows that is a scenario for defeat.

Go TM!

I agree with you and I don't think I had any objection to shoja playing. My question was regarding Vahid amiri and ehsan playing in center mid upfront and having noroolahi behind them! This does not make sense to me. I mean it would make sense if they had ehsan and amir in the back with having noroolahi covering infront of them, which gives him the chance to shoot. Norolahi is really a great shooter and by playing him behind vahid and amir, in a defensive system , it would totally get that option away from him.

The varzesh3 prediction actually makes sense and I think there is good chance that we get something like this

----------Abedzadeh----------
Shoja-Kanani-Majid-Noorafkan
--Mehdipoor-----Ahmadnoor---
Gholizade-----Vahid-------Allahyar
---------------Azmoun------------


They predicted Mehdipoor would start but i think sarlak would start over him.

So I think we end up getting something like this:

----------Abedzadeh----------
Danial-Kanani-Shoja-Noorafkan
-------Sarlak-----Ahmadnoor---
Gholizade-----Allahyar-------Vahid
---------------Azmoun------------

[Gol Bezan]

Lol How on earth did you manage to relate Varzesh3 to your prediction.
Varzesh3 has predicted 4-2-3-1 , you guys predicted 4-3-3 with totally different formation and players.
----------Abedzadeh----------
Shoja-Kanani-Majid-Noorafkan
--Mehdipoor-----Ahmadnoor---
Gholizade-----Vahid-------Allahyar
---------------Azmoun------------

I don't know why you're so heated about this mate. It's just a prediction. Calm down.

And fyi. A 4-2-3-1 IS A 4-3-3. It's a variation of a 4-3-3. It's just the 3 in the midfield are shaped as a 2 - 1 or 1 - 2. Otherwise its the same. And we had the same players as them bar Mehdipour, but if you read their article they mention Hajsafi could also start.

[milad_b]

personally love that Backline IF Hossaini is actually game-ready..! which is a huge IF..??
We badly need a formidable backline for this match, especially so a Solid RB to keep tabs of SK's main game-breaking threat Son..!!

even a more risky and questionable inclusions in GB's predicted line-up is having the mostly played-out, erratic HajSafi deputizing another defensively erratic and unstable Noorafkan at LB position ..!

GB has had a good record of guessing out TM line-ups in wcqs past .... so if those are the starters ? I'd be much more comfortable in moving the CM pieces around to something like this..

Amiri......HSooti........AhmadNour

Well lots of people have been saying that we will play with 3 center deffenders (shoja , kanani and hosseini), Which it would make sense to me . However I just don't see hajsafi and amiri (next to each other) playing upfront. If that happens then Hajsafi will totally kill our Offensive oppurtunities .

I have feeling that Milad Mo will take Noorafkans spot and Noorafkan will take shoja's spot. So we end up seeing something like this.

Shoja - Kanani - Noorafkan- Milad.Mo


We have to wait and see what happens but I prefer this formation:

----------Abedzadeh----------
Danial-Kanani-Shoja-Noorafkan
------Sarlak-----Ahmadnoor---
Gholizade-----Allahyar-------Vahid
---------------Azmoun------------

Or

Shoja-Kanani-Majid-Noorafkan

[milad_b]

I don't know why you're so heated about this mate. It's just a prediction. Calm down.

And fyi. A 4-2-3-1 IS A 4-3-3. It's a variation of a 4-3-3. It's just the 3 in the midfield are shaped as a 2 - 1 or 1 - 2. Otherwise its the same. And we had the same players as them bar Mehdipour, but if you read their article they mention Hajsafi could also start.

No one is heated mate and trust me I am calm so just chill with that tone please (we are all friends and hamvatans here, so no need for that kind of attitude). You were banned last time so I suggest keeping your cool this time.

Bro We could say the same thing for any other formation like 4-5-1? Or a 4-2-4 or 4-4-2.Formations are by their nature fluid and can also end up to 4-3-3 etc... But you guys keep missing the point here. You guys placed hajsafi infront of Ahmad noor next to vahid amiri (on right side), In a 4-1-2-2-1 system or 4-3-3 as you like to call it. This would totally kill our offensive play. Skocic would be stupid to use ehsan and amiri there.

Btw, In the article they also mention other players too however their main choice was mehdipoor. They also mention sarlak.

We have to wait and see the formation. However I doubt ehsan and amiri play infront of ahmadnoor next to each other. Also I think allahyar won't start as he is not fully ready for 90 minute games. I think Karim will start.


Darzemn Sale not Mobarak Arya jan