Iran vs. Qatar - [Match Thread] | Asian Cup 2023 | Wednesday, February 7th |

[PSGman#19]

Why? If all of Asia is too stupid to beat them, they deserve to win it. At the WC the pressure was too high for them, honestly they played not like they play in Asia, and they had a tough group, Netherlands, African Cup Champion Senegal & Ecuador are not easy teams.

There were shit in the copa America and countless friendlies they had between 2019 and 2024.

If only we played all our games at education city stadium

[Ostad_Goosfand]

I still cant believe it.

we broke our penalty curse vs syria. after so many penalty chokes, vs saudis, vs china, vs korea, vs iraq, we finally won penalties with beautiful 5/5

Kanaani, same guy who cost us game vs japan with boneheaded mistake of arguing with referee, a CENTER BACK, is the guy who wins us a penalty at 94th minute vs JAPAN. it was like destiny

all of that happens, we go up 1-0 to Qatar.....and we just choke it away? genuinely, wtf happened. I am in disbelief. I have been watching since 1996 and this is personally the worst loss I have experienced. sure jordan look good but cmon its still jordan, we can beat them any day like we did, in their home stadium 3-1. all we had to do was win today.

Genuinely, we cant even make an asian cup final. it is so mind blowing to me. 0/12. only semi finals. my goodness

[Surenas]

Am i the only one who thinks Qatar winning 2 back to back Asian Cup's is somewhat embarassing for Asia in general? Especially after the whole world saw their embarassing display on world stage.

Why? If all of Asia is too stupid to beat them, they deserve to win it. At the WC the pressure was too high for them, honestly they played not like they play in Asia, and they had a tough group, Netherlands, African Cup Champion Senegal & Ecuador are not easy teams.

[DR Strangemoosh]

Am i the only one who thinks Qatar winning 2 back to back Asian Cup's is somewhat embarassing for Asia in general? Especially after the whole world saw their embarassing display on world stage.

I genuinely think Jordan are going to win this tournament.

[ShiroKhorshid]

Am i the only one who thinks Qatar winning 2 back to back Asian Cup's is somewhat embarassing for Asia in general? Especially after the whole world saw their embarassing display on world stage.

[Ostad_Goosfand]

Another heartbreaking result as usual.
The only positive about this game is that it spared us from getting our butts kicked on Saturday by Jordan.

why do team melli fans always say this? during syria game people said thank god when we almost loss at least we wont get embarassed vs japan! guess what we beat japan. just lots of bad luck today and bad lineup. with normal lineup we beat qatar and jordan for sure. the asian cup was gifted to us and we said no. im going to be sick for a long time

[Ostad_Goosfand]

Guess what? We won't win the next AC 2027 either. It is in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia will win that tournament.

i have given up on AC. i mean we beat japan and lost to qatar in SF. we wont win AC for next 100 years. only chance is if new government comes and we host an asian cup. otherwise we are better off focusing on round of 32 knockout in new tokhmi world cup.

next AC we probably lose to australia or something in quarters. this is the worst AC loss since 2004 china. maybe worse, probably worse. because we would have played japan in final for that game and not jordan lol

[blue blood]

Another heartbreaking result as usual.
The only positive about this game is that it spared us from getting our butts kicked on Saturday by Jordan.

[aariaa]

Honestly guys i've had enough of this shit. I'll stop watching Team melli from now on. Its not the manager , its not the players , its just the fact that we've cursed. I dono how or by who but its just doesn't make sense to lose such important games .
China,
Argentina,
Portugal
USA
Qatar

and the list goessss on...


Maybe because our people are too dark and negative I dono , but definitely something is not right here. We have shit loads of chances in all those matches but none went in! People talk about infrastructure and foundation and blah blah blah but look at how many teams have made it without having any of those .

No more team melli for me for now. TY .

We need to start dood some esfand before each game!

[persian-eagle-13]

Guess what? We won't win the next AC 2027 either. It is in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia will win that tournament.

[Surenas]

Honestly guys i've had enough of this shit. I'll stop watching Team melli from now on. Its not the manager , its not the players , its just the fact that we've cursed. I dono how or by who but its just doesn't make sense to lose such important games .
China,
Argentina,
Portugal
USA
Qatar

and the list goessss on...


Maybe because our people are too dark and negative I dono , but definitely something is not right here. We have shit loads of chances in all those matches but none went in! People talk about infrastructure and foundation and blah blah blah but look at how many teams have made it without having any of those .

No more team melli for me for now. TY .

Because our defence was trash this time. With all due respect, CQ was a coach who was too conservative and often chose a match plan that was too passive in the significant games, but I can say one thing, I had my peace of mind for 8 years because of a stable defence.

CQ games weren't always pretty, but there was a system, we were disciplined and had a game plan. We haven't lost a competitive game against Qatar since 1997 and then something like this happens to us today after we beat Japan, a strong Japan who beat Germany, Spain, Peru, Turkey and forced the World Cup runners-up into a penalty shoot-out. We won against this Japan. I ask you, how can there be such instability?

This is the dark side of Gheyrat, Tokhmibasi Irani, a rollercoaster of performances, one day we play like Brazil and the next day like Sanat Naft. I'm just fed up with it, we've regressed. I also don't want to ruin the achievements of previous generations!

But this comparison with the victories from 1968-1976 is completely nonsense, we were just as disorganized and tokhmi back then, only back then there was little competition in Asia, we won tournaments in which sometimes only five teams took part with no finals.

When we actually played against the world's greats at the World Cup, they showed us Iranians our place. The fact is, our generations since the 90s have all been good teams that are neither mentally nor qualitatively weaker than the teams that won the Asian Cup.

Only football in Asia has developed steadily since then, and it has become increasingly difficult for Iran to follow this pace since then, same with South Korea. We are a formidable Asian team, but we have to learn to play systematically, Gheyrat, Ghalb, and all these virtues are not a system. They please us because we Iranians are people who value such virtues, but these virtues only worked back when Asia still consisted of Burma and North Korea.
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[milad_b]

I literally can’t understand how Jahanbaksh’s shot hit the INSIDE of the post, and bounce out. The angle it hit and it not going on is honestly mind blowing, I literally couldn’t think of anything other than a curse or bad energy either. I’m not into superstitions but we somehow always end up so unlucky on top of everything going wrong

Exactly ! I mean If it was one time or 2 time then I can justify it but its every bloody time that this happens. We are definitely cursed.

[Iran_19]

Khoshi be ma niomade mesle inke
Har vaght ke mikhay ye zare khoshgal bashi ride mishe be hal adam!


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[Karimi 8]

Honestly guys i've had enough of this shit. I'll stop watching Team melli from now on. Its not the manager , its not the players , its just the fact that we've cursed. I dono how or by who but its just doesn't make sense to lose such important games .
China,
Argentina,
Portugal
USA
Qatar

and the list goessss on...


Maybe because our people are too dark and negative I dono , but definitely something is not right here. We have shit loads of chances in all those matches but none went in! People talk about infrastructure and foundation and blah blah blah but look at how many teams have made it without having any of those .

No more team melli for me for now. TY .

I literally can’t understand how Jahanbaksh’s shot hit the INSIDE of the post, and bounce out. The angle it hit and it not going on is honestly mind blowing, I literally couldn’t think of anything other than a curse or bad energy either. I’m not into superstitions but we somehow always end up so unlucky on top of everything going wrong

[milad_b]

You are actually right!
When it matters the most we choke!
Add to that 88 and 96 AC vs Saudi in both time in semi!

Also 2002 WCQ! I dono what it is but every time we need something desperately never happens.