Iran - Russia Friendly Thread

[Afat11]

I want to officially apologizing for ever saying we should get rid of Skocic. I think we wouldn't have won any games with him in 2022 WC because his tactics were flawed for international standards. With that said, if I knew the alternative would be a few weeks of CQ and then to GN where we are now, I would beg never to fire Skocic. We'd be a middling team with decent results, not at our full potential, but we wouldn't be horrible like we are now. We fired Skocic for failure to achieve a higher level were getting accustomed to between 2014-2018, now we've regressed to the worst point I can remember for TM in my lifetime. Maybe the 2010 team was worse, but we are equally bad at the least to the worst I've ever seen from TM while I've been alive.

This is definitely a case of be careful what you wish for. I wanted Skocic gone to get a more tactically astute manager of world class standards. I didn't think we'd get GN who has no tactics and has made our team absolute losers and whipping boys. If we were in a group with Japan/Australia/Saudi, we will finish behind all of them in the current moment. We were blessed with the easy group we got for this qualification and still couldn't steal a win from Uzbekistan in any games. I honestly vote to dissolve TM before the world cup. I'd rather we not go, or hopefully Trump will ban us, it will be much better than going and being the laughing stock losing to Botswana.

[Iran_19]

I highly doubt GN sit on TM bench during WC!

[Kavian]

In summary, with this coach and bunch of over aged players, this team is not going anywhere.

We will be the laughing joke at WC.

[webmaster]

All of these problems with TM can be solved once the regime is gone

I defintely think the mullahs are one major reason for GN sticking around.

100%. We know money is in kissing ass and he is a master of it.

[Nokhodi]

This is our third game in a row without a win...we're 7 games from the world cup and the starting lineup average age was 30. IDK if its time to be cool

Especially when he keeps playing Beiro, Shoja, Nemati, Noorafkan, etc. Not to mention he keeps playing our most "mid" youngsters like Yousefi and Ghorbani. Why not give Hosseinejad at least 30 min? Zare? Khalife? Allahyar? Khodabandelou?

I just don't believe in the panic setting - and I don't think our solution is necessarily playing younger players.

At this point I would only want GN out, because I think something has happened to the team where a laziness sets in, and he can't fix it.

[Messy]

All of these problems with TM can be solved once the regime is gone

I defintely think the mullahs are one major reason for GN sticking around.

[Nokhodi]

what happened to taj? dude led a revolt to get CQ back on team and now he is just sitting on hands with GN. tie tajikistan, lose uzbeksitan, lose russia. enough is enough. if he cant win what is the point of GN? get him OUT

He is waiting till a few months before the World Cup to save his budget.

[Keano]

Our football at club level in Asia sucks, our TM in all their games, no matter the who the opponent is suck big time. My luck the next World Cup is going to be in both my countries of residence. Honestly reluctant to even attend TM games...

[Ostad_Goosfand]

what happened to taj? dude led a revolt to get CQ back on team and now he is just sitting on hands with GN. tie tajikistan, lose uzbeksitan, lose russia. enough is enough. if he cant win what is the point of GN? get him OUT

[Pluto2000]

Poor Skocic got sacked for 1/10th of GNs antics.

1. loss to SK with half the team having Covid and injured
2. Losing scrimmage to Algeria while testing a bunch of new players

Meanwhile GN...

[TM4LIFE]

They just want to be able to buy toiley paper at Costco.

quote of the year 😂😂😂

[Damavand]

With GN the only thing we can hope for is to not get embarrassed at the WC. The Stubborn Mule absolutely will not give players like Hosseinejad any playtime. We needed his creativity in the midfield.

[webmaster]

This World Cup is just a retirement tour for our players. They dont care.

They just want to be able to buy toiley paper at Costco.

This Russia team is miles slower than the African/S. American/European teams we will play.

They figured out our CBs are slow lateral runners. You guys dont think actual coaches in Europe etc will find that out quicker?

At the expense of our people and fans of course.

[TM4LIFE]

Jahanbaksh what did that man offer besides a donkey kick in Russian kids face?
Our forwards could not play a single decent forward pass. 94 minutes we had really just 2 opportunities, one thanks to Ghoddos with intelligent run behind. He is product of Swedish football so he is the only one with a couple extra neurons who knew to actually make a run in behind. At this point I basically hate watch the team.

[webmaster]

I am cracking up that some people here have so high hopes for all this. Open your eyes people it is not going to be beautiful in the WC.

We are the best "zire toop zan" in the world and our players are not even world class.

Deymi football and just waiting to be lucky. If anyone had one percent hope that we would win, you need to recheck the reality bro.

We have no hopes anymore. If you want a ship not to sink, you get a good ship and hire a good captain. Disagree with this!!!