Iran -Macedonia

[Martin-Reza]

Positive note: as DD jan mentioned, no more craptastic long balls from Defensive line.

Shall I be flattered or insulted because you confused me with DD ?

[TrueBlue]

The story of "Deeeg" and "Abkesh" continued as expected (for those of you who dont know and of course are interested in what I am talking about, please refer to my post Iran - Jordan thread).

Positive note: as MR jan mentioned, no more craptastic long balls from Defensive line.

Shojaee & Nekunam: Can someone please tell me why they played?

Kazemian: Horrible performance! and I am trying to be nice here

Ando: Solid in the past two games...

The rest: blahhhhhh!

Overall TM performance: Lost in no-mans-land without having access to google maps... Poor TM!!!

Ghotbi: you continue to amaze me man, keep up the good work... it just keeps getting better and better (same goes for dastiyar holandiye)

Natijeye footballi: In case of insomnia, ask your doctor about the new sleeping pill available for free on the internet; "TM's recent matches"

P.S.: I am sure someone somewhere in an interview with some newspaper will blame the rain for some team's truly amazing performance

[Doctor DOOM]

what a boring game.
the blasted rain in made it EVEN WORSE!!!

nothing much to say about his drag of a game except:
- nice goal by Iran.
- mobali and khalatbari shd have gotten yellow cards for their protests
- marg bar baraan
- nice to see shots taken at TM games
- ando's shooting has been impressive in the past few games
- shojaei continues his weak performances
- rain ruined the game's potential
- goal conceded is yet another carbon copy of many others goals conceded due to kaabi's missing in action and his distance from the central def
- nosrati's ONLY position is the CB and not on the sides
- Rain ruined the game
- boring game and 2 hours of my life that I'll never get back!!
- ansarifard deserves a starting position. showed great promise in the past few games
- beginning to think ghotbi DELIBERATELY starts with the wrong line up ... only to correct it in the second half and then be able to boast he did better in the "coaches' half"!!!!!
- .... oh, did I mention the rain crapping all over the game?

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btw, dear persianallstars from vienna, I know it's become a cliche' ... but it just suits this occasion so well I cant resist saying it:
what are you smoking and how can I get my hands on one too?

[Martin-Reza]

It is nothing against Mobali in that case, but it's simply not his position to play as second DM/CM in a 4-2-3-1. He should have two guys behind him to have his back and concentrate on the offensive duties he's strong in.

I liked Beikzadeh as leftback though. Not everything he did was good, but he seems an interesting option for that weakspot of ours.

I was glad to see Kaebi back as RB, he definitely added stability, although some bashers will again blame him for Pandev's header.

I think Kazemian wasted his chance today, Meydavoudi was only slightly better.

I think sth obvious today was that Ghotbi forbid his defenders to send high balls forward. Throughout the game they relied on short-passing in build-up. Wasn't always good, but still better than all those senseless long balls.

Else, not much to say.

Fair draw in my opinion.

[persianallstars]

What do you guys think? The formation with Mobali as OM is simply not working, if we have a OM like Ballack, Lampard, it would work but Mobali is just too slow and he isn't able to think and play equally!

The situation, where he lost the ball was just too pathetic... He deserved the yellow card! Not for yelling, but for this stupid way to play modern football.

Next topic!

Without any doubt: 4-2-3-1 is the only possible formation for Iran!!!!