Reality Check ...

[Surenas]

You guys are clearly mad, we had so many chances, how could you fix that? The GK of Syria just saved them many times, we should have scored at least 4 goals, but they had luck and some skill.
You know what is wrong with you guys? You can't admit that Syria isn't that bad after all, they tied against SK, they took Gutter down, they were victorious against Uzbekistan and China, because all games were fixed.
Boro baba guys, Syria isn't that bad and we are not Germany, we dominated Syria yesterday, you really think CQ would accept such a shit? He would leave Iran immediately and would rest somewhere in Portugal. You guys are absolutly into your conspiracy shit.

[Under Lahaf]

to those who think the draw was intentional, go back and look at the game again... Also to believe Syrians didn't actually drew with Iran, based on their own accomplishments, hard work, and our own mistakes is an insult to Syrian players as well as Iranian players and staff.

[Rooyintan]

Japan losing to Saudi Arabia is fixed too. They teamed up to ensure Saudi goes through and Australia not go through directly. Qatar losing at home to China give me a break, it is very obvious that Saudi played a role in ensuring Qatar finishes at the bottom of the group. AFC is a very corrupt organisation just like Olympic Council of Asia, IOC and other sporting organisations. Perhaps most teams for the 2018 World Cup have already been preselected and qualifying games are just a show. Let's see who will win the Fake World Cup next year.

[ehsan singapore]

This is such a Bs thread we concided 2 goals not lose 5-0 people need to relax really why we are so negative all the time we just draw I am not happy with the result but w didn't not lose the reality check is that we are head and shoulder above all Asian teams we qualify with 0 loses with 2 games spared so that the reality check

[EKBATAN]

This isnt new news. Whoever followed team melli since 80s and 90s knows our country is a mess in terms of facilities and professionalism.

[Mr.Click]

This game has certainly risen my suspicion. I mean how could we have all those games where we keep a clean sheet as well as virtually zero shots on target against us including the recent Seoul game, then all of a sudden let in 2 easy goals like this.

I pray to god TM did not give away the game on purpose.

it certainly looked they did..

[Adesor Vafaseya]

what he said:

its the first time ever I agree with Haj Rezaei.

[inarsenewetrust]

at this rate if we fail to get to Semis of WC , PFDC will be up in arms for years asking for CQ, staff, IFF , and Players' heads.

[YeCheesi Tala]

Reality Check #1:
We grew up in households that disgraced us for being mediocre/good...A is not good, working as manager for supermarket is not good, being shorter and Skinner then your cousins is not good (no matter the metrics you have)...
Hence, we direct those values towards everything we love in our life. Good is not satisfying, Great is not satisfying, only being the best with flawless results. This mentality has good and bad associated with it.
Reality Check #2:
Last WC qualifiers we lost to Lebanon (and Neku was crying on the field after). This time we drew against Syria which pretty much gave every team in the group trouble.

[eerooni]

I just rewatched the game and saw that Azmoun could have scored a very similar goal in min 23 that the Syrians scored in 93! except that the Syrian goalie saved it between his legs and Beiranvand did not!.. I loved the game , it was TMs BEST game to date and it was a complete friendly that exposed a lot of issues, one being TM not having a leader on the field and our game plan cracking when weaker teams opened our 'clean sheet' the team was not prepared for this shock!

[Super Shojaei]

This thread seems even more negative than some of the ones during our 2010 wc failure.

[Super Shojaei]

If we suck then what level are Japan, south Korea and DRAWstralia at?

[8008s]

Ppl act like TM's business is sacred as no one can criticize, personally I'd rather know it was a fixed match, because we couldn't hang on to a victory at the end of game in Azadi,
it was poor execution by players and coach. Syria played like how we did four years ago against Korea, nothing to loose but plenty to gain.
That's our own mode of operation for many years and we couldn't stop it? Yes been great so far but as OP said, we're looking good on paper, going up the FIFA list but losing on home turf (losing a game almost won and we should have) under the current fanfare is really exposing our weakness and needing to come back to earth and reexamine.

what's interesting is the second goal scorer is from the region who's at odds with Asad's and for two years was not invited to their national team but the sports minister has called back and directly invited many including this player to play for their national team.

Here we have another individual who doesnt give a fuck about TM all year, first game we dont get a great result, comes to spread his shitty pessimistic opinion. France tied to fucking luxembourg at home yesterday. Luxembourg, a team with absolutely nothing to ever play for, literally a dot . Beiranvand fucked up twice today, as did ramin with a needless retarded give away that led to goal number two. And we missed a shit ton of chances. This wasnt a reality check. It gave us some things to think about, but not a game we needed to win or get up for. You could tell the motivation was lacking on the part of the players. this thread should be closed.