Iran vs. Hong Kong - [Match Thread] | Asian Cup 2023 | Friday, January 19th |

[The]

[The]

GN said on the press conference that he will be rotating 2-3 players this match.

[Damavand]

GN said on the press conference that he will be rotating 2-3 players this match.

Good. We need the rotation so we will not have player fatigue in the next round not to mention possible yellow card suspension.

[Iranianarsenal11]

GN said on the press conference that he will be rotating 2-3 players this match.

One of them is Azmoun who will probably start. Another is probably Milad for Hajsafi. The third (assuming Majid is a given), is probably Ramin for Sadegh or ARJ for Ramin?? (Would love seeing Ramin at RW)

[Nokhodi]

One of them is Azmoun who will probably start. Another is probably Milad for Hajsafi. The third (assuming Majid is a given), is probably Ramin for Sadegh or ARJ for Ramin?? (Would love seeing Ramin at RW)

Majid for Shoja.

[Pluto2000]

Kanaani needs to start and get a yellow so he can miss the UAE game and be back for R16

[oracle]

Lmao at General sounding like he is smoking a khubii. Ffffhhh blablabla..Ffffffhhhhhhhh blablabbla.. 😅🤣

He is comparing his style of soccer to pep
guardiola IS GREAT right now. But if tm fails after firing him also
asking for full mental evaluation and possible monthly injection.

[Artaxerxes]

One of them is Azmoun who will probably start. Another is probably Milad for Hajsafi. The third (assuming Majid is a given), is probably Ramin for Sadegh or ARJ for Ramin?? (Would love seeing Ramin at RW)

Dont really get why GN wants to start Azmoun aka mr glassman against a opponent like Hong kong and risk a injury and missing the knockouts.

[oracle]

I was lmao when he stated even pep changed his tikitaka and something about play like man city.

Sounds great but he shouldnt tell his plan. Now they know... 😅

Thankfully we have Ghaedi Prophecy and Pejman92 Guarantee lock on this AC

Right now all teams will go analyze man city matches to get ready for tm...he has learned from shikha how to talk🤣 he uses hadis and prophet and imams QUOTE, as clearly his prophet is pep guardiola..

[BacheLot]

Glad to se that Cheshmi is pumping the right foot..

the guy gets way too much undue criticism on this board...
ive never followed his club career so perhaps because of his struggles there..?
however i was semi impressed with his game the first time CQ started him at TM and honestly yet to see him grossly underperform either in TM..??
he should get a starting nod in this game and maybe give some rest to saeed/saman in process ... !
watched the UAE/HK game and har dough shooon mali naboodan... we can certainly afford to experiment greatly with our bench and 2nd string players and still come out victor and top the group somewhat comfortably ...!!

[BacheLot]

Dont really get why GN wants to start Azmoun aka mr glassman against a opponent like Hong kong and risk a injury and missing the knockouts.

they are just bout the least physical and dirty playing side we'd likely to face in this tourney .... so it would be a sensible risk to get a late arrival marquee star player to get into groove of things and possibly stat pad and send him into playoffs high on confidence !!
Mehdi is also another who's fitness and durability in unquestionable and well primed and capable of playing full 90 every game in this tourney .... especially so considering the Looong ass layoff between group matches so far..!!

Taremi and Sardar should start tomorrow and hopefully put the game to bed by early 2nd half and then we can bring other scrub attackers to finish the job..!

[milad_b]

My prediction is going right about palestine 😬😁👋.


waiting for mashti to come up with some conspiracy theory about palestine and uae 😃

[Iranianarsenal11]

Dont really get why GN wants to start Azmoun aka mr glassman against a opponent like Hong kong and risk a injury and missing the knockouts.

He needs goals to heat up. A goal against Palestine and then HK would do wonders for his confidence.

We can sub him early 2nd half.

[sam20]

He needs goals to heat up. A goal against Palestine and then HK would do wonders for his confidence.

We can sub him early 2nd half.

Agreed.

Also, just looking at our last 2 recent world cup qualifiers VS Hong Kong, it hasn't exactly been a super easy match that we won with a second string lineup.

I know we won 4-0 and 3-1 last two matchups, but this was with our strongest lineup, more or less.

Last match was 2-0 until minute 87.

Previous match was 1-0 via a lucky goal / bad keeper mistake until minute 61.

In my opinion, we should start with our strongest lineup to try and score early, then sub out our starters if we're ahead by minimum 2-3 goals at half / by minute 65

[oracle]

My prediction is going right about palestine 😬😁👋.


waiting for mashti to come up with some conspiracy theory about palestine and uae 😃

Tm not scoring in last 40 minutes of the match against palestine they take their feet off the gas
easily should of been 7-1....