WC22 TM's preparation and friendlies

[Iranianarsenal11]

Naderi is literally Noorafkan if Noorafkan didn't have an offense as well

Noorafkan is better than Naderi, and Noorafkan himself is awful defensively so we might be screwed

[peiman92]

I also think that Afshin Ghotbi as Assistant Coach and Omid Namazi as Analyst and Steve Beitashour as Defender would benefit TM's clash with USA.

Don’t know about the other two, but Afshin Ghotbi can stay as far as possible from TM.
He’s analysis of S.Korea in 2009 ” Relax, i know them like the palm of my hands” screwed us over big time.

[Team Melli Fan]

New Zealand will play a friendly with Peru in June

https://old.reddit.com/r/Aleague/com...of_both_sides/

[Nokhodi]

New Zealand will play 2 friendlies with Peru in June

https://old.reddit.com/r/Aleague/com...of_both_sides/

I think it's just one game, just different dates depending on where you live.

[armen]

New Zealand will play Peru in a friendly on June 5 in Barcelona, and are planning a 2nd friendly in Qatar against another national team (unknown) on June 9 before their June 14 playoff game in Qatar against Costa Rica:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/foo...6JPXEJO2OWIWY/

[taremiscores]

[allan123]

People any news about the Friendly games???
I think finally Iran play against Uzbekistan or Oman.

[sam20]

he will add alot to our offense his crosses are best lb we might have
but
in defense we will have problems wih him.

vahid amiri and then norafkan are our best lb
shoja khalilzad is our best rb(base his dominance first 40 minutes vs s.k in korea soul.)

I was also impressed with Khalilzadeh at right back VS south korea and we went downhill quickly after he was injured.

I would also rather have Amiri at left back because we simply don't have another reliable option there. - It's unfortunate because I'd definitely rather have amiri in central mid or left mid since he's such a great aggressive hustler and can add so much to our offence and counter-attacks.

[Farzadfarhangni]

I was also impressed with Khalilzadeh at right back VS south korea and we went downhill quickly after he was injured.

I would also rather have Amiri at left back because we simply don't have another reliable option there. - It's unfortunate because I'd definitely rather have amiri in central mid or left mid since he's such a great aggressive hustler and can add so much to our offence and counter-attacks.

How good is Amiri defensively? Not losing his man, not getting beat 1v1, tackling, etc... I know he played LB for perspolis but I never saw any of those games, and the couple of times he played LB for TM, he was not really under a lot of pressure to get a sense for his defensive abilities.

Excluding Amiri, our best LB defensively is hands down Mohammadi, the problem of course is his offensive, play making and ball handling abilities. But I can see him used against England just for his defensive abilities. He also has a good engine and he is fast so he can go up and down the field a lot which is helpful is stretching the field and opening spaces for others but don't expect him to beat his player 1v1 or sending in good crosses unless he has plenty of time.

[sam20]

How good is Amiri defensively? Not losing his man, not getting beat 1v1, tackling, etc... I know he played LB for perspolis but I never saw any of those games, and the couple of times he played LB for TM, he was not really under a lot of pressure to get a sense for his defensive abilities.

Excluding Amiri, our best LB defensively is hands down Mohammadi, the problem of course is his offensive, play making and ball handling abilities. But I can see him used against England just for his defensive abilities. He also has a good engine and he is fast so he can go up and down the field a lot which is helpful is stretching the field and opening spaces for others but don't expect him to beat his player 1v1 or sending in good crosses unless he has plenty of time.

That's a good point regarding the oppposition and i'm not sure about how much he was tested but I know Amiri is definitely a strong player defensively when it comes to the midfield and he has great pace, so he would hopefully be a reliable opton there against England.

Mohammadi would be a good choice too if it's his defensive game that's strong, but i thought he was more about his pace and getting up the pitch to attack, but just lacked good passing and crossing etc???
As long as he can defend, he would be a good option since he's very fast like England's wingers.

[a_m]

We have pretty much the easy path to the 2nd round also have a change to play a easier team in the 2nd

But The IFF like always doesn’t care ,

Team that play like English

Ireland
N. Ireland
Iceland
Denmark
Sweden
Norway
Australia
New Zealand


Team like the USA

Canada
Germany
Macedonian
Greece
Czech Republic

[a_m]

The best case scenario for this team is every single Europe based players is in the form of their lives once this World Cup starts
Cause based on how things going there won’t be any training camps or that many friendly games

[taremiscores]

The best case scenario for this team is every single Europe based players is in the form of their lives once this World Cup starts
Cause based on how things going there won’t be any training camps or that many friendly games

Problem is, our opponents have better European players at every position with exception of Mehdi, Sardar (once he hits form). I’ll give it to Amir Abedzadeh too cause I’m a fan.

So this formula is not enough.

[Nokhodi]

We have pretty much the easy path to the 2nd round also have a change to play a easier team in the 2nd

But The IFF like always doesn’t care ,

Team that play like English

Ireland
N. Ireland
Iceland
Denmark
Sweden
Norway
Australia
New Zealand


Team like the USA

Canada
Germany
Macedonian
Greece
Czech Republic

a_m jan,

As other members have pointed out on this forum, even if IFF was capable and professional, we couldn't play any of the European teams you listed as their FIFA days are filled with UEFA Nations League.

Canada, Australia and New Zealand are all options though.

[Abtin]

I swear if NZ will be in Qatar in June, and haven't planned for their friendly while there, and IFF can't close that deal, I'm beyond speechless... It's like they come knock on your door and ask to play in your backyard, you just gotta show up, but you're drunk and reject the offer... But then again, it's IFF (part of IR), I wouldn't be surprised...