Bosnia and Herzegovina-Iran: Quotes

FIFA – Salvador, After Iran’s 3-1 loss to Bosnia both Susic and Queiros Bosnia and Iran Head coaches respectively made some statements that appears bellow.

Safet Susic, Bosnia and Herzegovina coach
We dominated the game and deserved to win. Although I know that Iran wanted to progress, the victory was important for us.

We can now go home with our heads held high. We wanted to leave a good impression, but we’re not satisfied because we think that we could have done more.

I’m not being arrogant when I say that, but if we’d played a bit better against Nigeria and had a bit more luck, I think we would have made the Round of 16.

I was a little surprised by the way Iran played today, they can attack teams extremely well and I was expecting them to be adventurous, but I thought at times it was almost as if they would have been content to draw.

Carlos Queiroz, Iran coach
I have to congratulate Bosnia and Herzegovina, they deserved to win today and, without disrespect to Argentina or Nigeria, I believe that they should have qualified from this group.

They have great players who play for great clubs – and I do believe that they are the best team of the group. We pushed ourselves to the limit, mentally and physically and I’m very, very proud of them.

We were exhausted after the Argentina game, but we fought for 90 minutes. Despite all our difficulties, we kept pushing and created some good chances, but Bosnia and Herzegovina were better today.

They were on another level and we are not at that level due the facilities in Iran. We finish our job here with no regrets, no excuses.