[Poll] Lose against UAE and avoid Japan or beat UAE and face Japan before the final?

[webmaster]

^ not in their wettest dreams

[DR Strangemoosh]

Indonesia went on a run of wins towards the end of last year after an impressive game against Argentina (lost 2-0 to a strong Argentina)

Beating Japan is very unlikely but not impossible....

[webmaster]

^ surely not,, not in a 100 years

[DR Strangemoosh]

Let's hope Indonesia now beat Japan 🍻

[oracle]

Seems like Ghaleh noei made his decision. If we play like this then I'm not worried too much.

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Galenoie by choosing for tm to stay where he is at
will be on tm bench 2 more games.....hope I am wrong

[webmaster]

Seems like Ghaleh noei made his decision. If we play like this then I'm not worried too much.

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[arj42]

I promise y’all by end of today UAE will be in third place

[aria32]

Safe to say general read this thread and we have our answer..

[DR Strangemoosh]

Apologies to Khodadad Azizi, Mashsaaed, Webmaster and all but I don't think we should play for second place.

My main reasoning is that the chance of beating Japan is higher in the quarter final than the final, based on the stamina of our players. I don't think any of them will have anything left in the tank if we get to the final ..

[shayan_esteghlali]

Lol what is going on here? lets go and demolish UAE by 5 goals

[Hosseini]

GN will want to preserve his winning stats though - and also FIFA ranking. Also risk upsetting some of the players if he asks them to throw the game

What would you do in his shoes...? I don't envy him

The best position is actually to tell them to win and WANT Japan. You don't really lose anyone like this. If we lose, we lose, but play your game and see what happens. Also if we lose - good! We get an easier draw.

Remember what Mourinho did when managing Porto in champions league all those years ago? He said WE WANT MAN UNITED before the UCL draw. That made it so the players psychologically felt it was GOOD if it happened. If they ended up not getting Man United, he said it would have been even better, but he had to mentally frame for the players that inviting the challenge, making history, and winning was what their goal was. And guess what? They won on aggregate!

He was a psychologically genius coach and GN should learn from that case study.

[Iman_Joon]

Also risk upsetting some of the players if he asks them to throw the game

What would you do in his shoes...? I don't envy him

Of course he won’t ask them that. He Will probably ”rest” the A-team

[KC McElroy]

It is so ironic that when playing a game against an arab team, we are the ones discussing whether we should saudi the game.

[DR Strangemoosh]

If Uzbekistan beats Australia tomorrow which is before Iran's game then the first place side for Iran will be a hell having SKorea, Japan and Australia. I am sure GN knows this better than most here so he must make his decision before the game against UAE. He will have 1-2 hours to think about this.

GN will want to preserve his winning stats though - and also FIFA ranking. Also risk upsetting some of the players if he asks them to throw the game

What would you do in his shoes...? I don't envy him

[ferdyf]

If you wanna be the best, you have to be smart first

How many times did being smart work? How many World champions did this? None, that's a loser mentality