Syria - Iran game

[Mr.Good]

I have one question for Dr. Doom,

Lets assume Sadeghi is not inform. who do you suggest from the current squad to replace him, Teymorian? he is been out form also. Or should Daei call up new players? Do you propose that we change the squad every time a player is not in form and someone else is in form?
we all know that every players has his ups and downs of form. So if a coach like Daei is building a squad for the long term goals (Which I'm sure he is doing that), then he can not switch players and change the squad every other week.

[Doctor DOOM]

Nokhodi jan, I dont say sadeghi is a "bad player".
but at present, his form and performances have been VERY POOR.

every GREAT player will have a down time and low period. even the greatest of them. now, sadeghi may be as great as ronaldinho for all I care. but when he isnt producing, he is not called in or BY GOD NOT GIVEN STARTING POSITION. ronaldinho didnt get it, why shd sadeghi get it?


and my point is at present we have players ( albeit extremely "inferior" to our super-star sadeghi ) who ARE IN FORM and playing well. why shd they sit on the bench or not be called up, while he starts each and every game?

what's the logic in that ?

once our great sadeghi regains his magnificent form which rivals kaka and deco, then he can get called up or start games.
but NOT NOW.

[Nokhodi]

I think we all pretty much have the same viewpoints about the game.
1st half absolutely terrible.
2nd half, much better performance. The players were finding empty space and running at the right times.
I don't think Sadeghi is a bad player, but his lack of speed takes away from all other aspects of his game. Although good on him for the assist.
Nekounam was just great. Every time the Syrians got near him I knew he could take the ball.
Shojaei is very very weak physically. If he was a bit stronger he would win out on a lot of these 50/50 balls he loses and he could keep going for a longer time.
The main problem in my opinion still is lack of speed, especially in transition. The only moment we were ok in that was when we scored the last goal, although by then Syrians were crushed.

Overall I think the progress our team is making should be expected as the players are playing more and more alongside each other. Daei's inclusion of so many new players should give hope and motivation to many who for years saws TM being dominated by the same players.
This team now needs some solid friendlies, including a couple where we may lose heavily so our players can be ready against more speedy, physically ready and technical teams. Lets give this team time, and hope they will get the necessary tools needed for preparation and that they come out in the next round and surprise us all with great games and victories and eventual qualification to WC 2010.

[zzgloo]

Bright sides were :

A-Rahmati,Kabei,Nekonam,Aghili,were graet..................
B-Rezai,Zandi,shojaee,Zare,Hossaini were accepeteble..........
C-TM is workeing together a little better..................
D-Ali Daei is finding out about 4-4-2 !

Negatives :

A-TM has a very elementary offense...........( They could not create decent chances against even a demoralized third rate team ).
B-coaching misread the opponant in the first half again.....
C-Syria had lost its sole in the secound half, and we should have done more.

Bottom Line :...Congradulations for qualification.....But we are still way behind!

[Doctor DOOM]

My take on the game :

First half :
Pretty shoddy job by almost the whole team.
The team looked very loosely incoherent and too cautious.
Nothing much to say about the 30-35 minutes I saw. ( I missed the first 10-12 minutes )

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Second half1- Sattar ( Mr. turn-over) zarehbehind ONE HAND !!
My good god, the guy is solely responsible for about 80% of our turn-overs and loss of possessions !! How bad can you get in passing a ball? Really !

2- Sadeghi
He, too, was in poor form , again. Although a bit less invisible for his one pass and one shot. But one pass and one shot shd never justify a player playing for 90 minutes and doing next to nothing !

3- Shojaei training sessions . But judging from what we see in the games ( which matter far more than the sessions), I say Jabbari deserves to start games waaayyy before shojaei.

Also, this is the third or fourth consecutive game where shojaei is assigned as the player for set pieces !!! and we still see over-hitting of balls that fly past everyone !
If this had happened in the first game, we could excuse the wrong decision to keep him the responsible player for set pieces.
Second game this happens, we could say ok, maybe he has learnt his lesson and the coach has instructed him what to do and what not to do.
But there is NO EXCUSE for such wastage of set pieces and poor kicks by the third or pathetically, the fourth games !!!
The guy is NOT good at set pieces. Either assign someone else or bring someone else in to take care of them.
This is the lajbaazi we talk about.


4- Nekunam
The guy is on his way back to his old high performance self. We can clearly see the improving trend in his performance with each passing game. He performed quite well today and I guess we can now claim the old nekunam is back.

5- Rahmati 6- Zandi
He is hungry and a very classy player. Intelligent with a good sense of football. But he is NOT physically in shape for more than 45 minutes. Something has to be done.

Bottomline: