Iran vs New Zealand warm up talk

[FeLFeL]

I’d be curious to know which squad Mali brought to this friendly. These are back to back impressive results by TM!

Beating Gambia and Mali (never made it to a WC!) are impressive results while Iraq draws against Spain? Lol OK...

[Karimi 8]

Not all..
apparently 15 were rejected! Not sure it is players or staffs!!
https://www.varzesh3.com/news/236557...AA%D9%86%D8%AF

Sounds like it was staff not players

[Iran_19]

Sounds like it was staff not players

Yeah 13 including Taj, Nabi, Mombini and 2 analyzers

https://www.varzesh3.com/news/2365613/%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%AA-%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%84-%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%B4%D8%AF%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA-%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B2%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D9%93%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7

[Iran_19]

I know it was friendly but Haiti killed NZ, so beating NZ is very much possible!
Unless a goal needed,and with Azmoun absence, it is pretty clear they will start the match 4-5-1 or 4-2-3-1!

[Iran_19]

Obviously i wouldn’t have picked probably 1/3 of current squad, specially in D, but this will be my line up!
Beiro
Hardani, Kanani, Nemati, Milad
Saeid, Ghorbani
Aria/Hosseinzadeh, Saman, Mohebbi
Taremi

I highly doubt Eckert get any min without playing single min in friendlies

[Sam van Dam]

Belgium defeats Tunisia 5-0

tunisia got a red card at 62’

it was 2-0 at that minute

3 goals came after red card

[Bavafa]

Beating Gambia and Mali (never made it to a WC!) are impressive results while Iraq draws against Spain? Lol OK...

Mali just came off AFCON where they drew with Morocco and Tunisia, then held Russia to a 0-0 right before facing Iran. Winless in 5 but clearly not a side you just roll over.

Iraq meanwhile parked the bus for 90 minutes against Spain and got bailed out by a moment of individual brilliance. That’s your benchmark 👍

[FeLFeL]

Mali just came off AFCON where they drew with Morocco and Tunisia, then held Russia to a 0-0 right before facing Iran. Winless in 5 but clearly not a side you just roll over.

Iraq meanwhile parked the bus for 90 minutes against Spain and got bailed out by a moment of individual brilliance. That’s your benchmark 👍

That is absolutely my benchmark. You can dismiss Iraq achieving a great result against a top contender based on how they played, and chances are they won't be able to get the same result in a world cup match against Spain, but that is not even the point. It's about the level of competition. You don't prepare for the world cup by taking on easy opponents this late in the process playing 2nd/3rd tier African nations.

It's OK to take on easier opponents in earlier stages of preparation to test things out and it definitely beats lining up your A vs B teams against each other like TM did, but as you get closer to the world cup, you want players to adjust to the level and pace of the world cup. So yeah playing one of those teams (Not both) 40-50 days ago may have been fine followed by playing better teams, but we all know that due to politics, etc. nobody good wanted to play us. So stop trying to normalize TM's preparation leading up to the world cup like everything else. It's disgusting and nauseating.

[Bavafa]

That is absolutely my benchmark. You can dismiss Iraq achieving a great result against a top contender based on how they played, and chances are they won't be able to get the same result in a world cup match against Spain, but that is not even the point. It's about the level of competition. You don't prepare for the world cup by taking on easy opponents, and in our case 2nd/3rd tier African nations. It's OK to take on easier opponents in earlier stages of preparation to test things out and it definitely beats lining up your A vs B teams like TM did, but as you get closer to the world cup, you want players to adjust to the level and pace of the world cup. So yeah playing one of those teams (Not both) 40-50 days ago may have been fine followed by playing better teams, but we all know that due to politics, etc. nobody good wanted to play us. So stop trying to normalize TM's preparation leading up to the world cup like everything else. It's disgusting and nauseating.

You moved the goalposts but I’ll play along.

If nobody good wanted to play Iran due to politics, that’s not on TM, that’s the reality they’re operating in. You can’t hold them responsible for a scheduling problem that’s entirely out of their hands and then call it disgusting and nauseating like they had options on the table they refused. And Iraq drawing Spain by sitting in their own half for 90 minutes isn’t ‘adjusting to World Cup pace,’ it’s damage limitation. Those are two very different things.

Normalizing? Disgusting and nauseating? I’m looking at results and context. You’re the one normalizing Iraq’s draw as a quality benchmark when they barely left their own half. If that’s disgusting to you, that’s a you problem.

[Camran khan]

I’d be curious to know which squad Mali brought to this friendly. These are back to back impressive results by TM!

I think I read somewhere that they didn't even bring a full squad but only 15 or so players, a lot of players had better plans apparently so they came up with some excuses. Dont quote me on this though, I'm sure some other members can confirm.

[Sam van Dam]

England beats New Zealand 1-0

egypt currently tied with Brazil 1-1 at half time

[rizz]

[rizz]

this is allegedly the list of the staff members without Visa.

[persianballer]

That is absolutely my benchmark. You can dismiss Iraq achieving a great result against a top contender based on how they played, and chances are they won't be able to get the same result in a world cup match against Spain, but that is not even the point. It's about the level of competition. You don't prepare for the world cup by taking on easy opponents this late in the process playing 2nd/3rd tier African nations.

It's OK to take on easier opponents in earlier stages of preparation to test things out and it definitely beats lining up your A vs B teams against each other like TM did, but as you get closer to the world cup, you want players to adjust to the level and pace of the world cup. So yeah playing one of those teams (Not both) 40-50 days ago may have been fine followed by playing better teams, but we all know that due to politics, etc. nobody good wanted to play us. So stop trying to normalize TM's preparation leading up to the world cup like everything else. It's disgusting and nauseating.

Are you only here to complain about the obvious???
This isn't anything new. Iran is sanctioned, has never had good World Cup prep or been able to set up a good friendly. We know 😂

[Sam van Dam]

Are you only here to complain about the obvious???
This isn't anything new. Iran is sanctioned, has never had good World Cup prep or been able to set up a good friendly. We know 😂

People forget playing the super powerful Somali Pirates FC, the glory days