Uzbekistan vs. Iran Match Thread | 2025 CAFA Nations Cup Final

[Karimi 8]

whats the word on that italian coach that was rumored to us, he any good

no coach will fix the shit core we have in our country for youth and development and overcome the deep party bazi tactics in a short amount of time . Carlos was a rare breed that refused to accept it and also heavily focused on importing Iranians externally and had 8 years to develop.

even then there was only so much he could do

[roozan]

whats the word on that italian coach that was rumored to us, he any good

[FeLFeL]

GN is useless, no doubt!

But he is only a small peice of this total mess we call football in that country.

Young players grow up learning and adopting the football culture from idiots like GN.

Until this MF IR is there, our football will be same!

Enough said...Plain and simple. Not sure why ppl waste their time and energy analyzing TM tourney after tourney. It's like talking about renovating the living room and painting the walls when the foundation has an enourmous crack all throughout and the house is barely hanging on. That goes for the entire country too...

[Super Shojaei]

https://x.com/CAFAssociation/status/1965221867331203365

payam niyazmand wins goalkeeper of the tournament lol

[webmaster]

I dont get affected by all these failures anymore because I know these people won't last for a long time. I guess you guys need to do the same. WC is not as important anymore.

[Pluto2000]

The more I watch GNs TM the more I realize the woes are a combination of both him and his staff. Inviting a bunch of PGPL nobodies and playing people out of position is without a doubt the work of Saeed Alhoei.

Just so many small details are missed.

1. Yousefi at RB even though he's a LW and played winger for the last 8 years through all youth levels...
2. Zonal defending...
3. Set piece defending...
4. Set piece attack...when is the last time TM scored from a free kick or corner that wasn't from Sardar or Mohebi's header...
5. Randomly giving captains armband to others. This camp alone we had Cheshmi captain, Ghoddos captain, ARJ captain, Taremi captain
6. Substitutions....

[Hosseini]

Please sack this terrorist

[Kavian]

GN is useless, no doubt!

But he is only a small peice of this total mess we call football in that country.

Young players grow up learning and adopting the football culture from idiots like GN.

Until this MF IR is there, our football will be same!

[The]

He will use this tournament as an excuse for why we should not try new players.

[Prowess]

GN has wasted precious time. He’s had plenty of time to test out new/younger players, but he simply refuses to. He does not care about youth player development. He just wants to ride on our vets until their wheels fall off.

He should’ve used this tournament to setup his B or C team. Also, he has no clue how to fix our defense. This is why our defenders resort to last ditch efforts, and get carded.

Uzbekistan are not that good. We made them look a lot better.

[Team Melli Fan]

Apparently GN tried to pull out of the tournament lol:

https://uz.kursiv.media/en/2025-09-08/iran-coach-criticises-cafa-cup-organisation-after-withdrawal-request-rejected/

[hassonoo]

The player who should have been red carded scored on us.

Referee really was horrible. GN actually had decent tactics after the red card.
Issue is he spreads a very negative, complacent and panic filled energy into the team.

GN is the source of all problems in TM
Continuous to play old players, keeps losing against half decent teams
can't find a solution for the weak defence
He only good at hashiye he will blame the red card now for the loss and continue this joke

[perspolis#1]

Wanting Ghalenoi gone is something natural. Wanting CQ to come is something unnatural.

Make me coach, you'd pay less and get the same results> getting ra*ed at the WC. Makes much more sense.

We need neither of them. But the first defense of GN stans is CQ this, CQ that.

Its so exhausting that their excuses are predictable before it even leaves their mouths. Everyone knew what GNs excuses have been for every match he has messed up before he gives the postmatch Interview.

I would rather you coach. I think any of us would do decent enough at this point.

[a_m]

You guys in here acting like we just lost to Brazil in the finals ,,

-GN tactics and game plan was shit , you doing shitty things you get shitty results

- the referee was fair there was VAR to verify and correct everything


-how many times now have GN team Melli got a Red card ?!?!


-uzbekistan is one of the weaker teams in the World Cup and they exposed us

- they got 2 penalties , and they got 1 red card , so think about it , against such a weak team ..


-the bond bazi needs to stop , but unfortunately the bench players suck too , but very suspicious that Alipour does not start ,

-why is this Ozkhal , Mohangoo even playing on the pitch ,,, stupid actions have stupid results…



CQ is done , please we don’t want him back either !!
He took an Oman team who would beat teams like Indian easily to make them lose to Indian today ????

CQ was a phase we had , he was good cause he did bring much needed discipline to the TM , but his Tactics are wayyyy out dated for the modern game ….

[Babak agha]

Never have I seen a people who only think so black and white and cant realize that several people on this site would do better than Ghalenoei would regardless of whatever CQ does.

Agha nemikham. Wanting Ghalenlei gone doesnt make you MEK, wanting CQ doesnt make you a Zionist.

Lets get a coach who understands how football works post2000 and they can be antiIsrael too. Nooshe jan

Wanting Ghalenoi gone is something natural. Wanting CQ to come is something unnatural.

Make me coach, you'd pay less and get the same results> getting ra*ed at the WC. Makes much more sense.