Asian Cup - Group Preview - Friendlies, Information and more..

[aenima_8]

http://www.gulf-times.com/mobile//sport/192/details/421338/we-feel-confident:-muftah

[Kavian]

This Estonian team only beat Tajikistan 2-1 with 2 goals in added time. They are on the same level as Palestine.

Yes, I agree the Estonian team that played Qatar was really a B or C team, but that is not that important in light of Qatar yet having another opportunity to evaluate its game.

Qatar is a good team and it will be tough to beat them!

[babak_australia]

Games starting at 11 pm is good though. 6:30 am sucks and so does 1 am.

11 is usually the first game and best games are never at 11.

2 games ago Arsenal played at 4:30 am
and last night they played at 2am

WORST!!!!

[Bi-honar]

Sounds like CQ's comments are reverberating through the Qatari psyche... They now clearly consider themselves the favorite to go through the group and have taken their feet off the pedal!

[xerexes]

^ Yeah, because when coaches present themselves as underdogs, their goal is to make the other coaches immediately declare themselves the favorites! That's how it's supposed to work.

[Bi-honar]

^ Yeah, because when coaches present themselves as underdogs, their goal is to make the other coaches immediately declare themselves the favorites! That's how it's supposed to work.

Hey man, I don't follow sports and you are the expert in this matter. Why don't you tell me how and when it's going to work? Or maybe it has already worked and they're just playing reverse mind games on us by saying they're not the favorites, so our players won't take them seriously!

Anyway dude, I was just teasing with my original comment and this one. Don't take them too seriously.

[xerexes]

Why don't you tell me how and when it's going to work? Or maybe it has already worked and they're just playing reverse mind games on us by saying they're not the favorites, so our players won't take them seriously!

Again, most coaches present their side as underdogs going into tournaments. It's meant to take pressure off your players and also to keep the other coaches from motivating their team by portraying your side as arrogant and in need of being taught a lesson (which is a very common psychological tactic in coaching).

[aenima_8]

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/football/asian-cup-2015-socceros-star-tim-cahill-relaxed-and-ready-to-play-big-part-in-tournament/story-fni2wcjl-1227169598143

[aenima_8]

http://www.thenational.ae/sport/football/uae-enter-home-stretch-of-asian-cup-preparations

[aenima_8]

Uzbekistan and Iraq played a second friendly against each other yesterday in AbuDhabi which ended 0-0 Before leaving for Australia.

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=260911

[ehsan singapore]

qatar might be in form but we play them second game and we can still beat them if we play well i believe the first game is key

[Taz]

Question: Anyone know if North Korea, Kuwait and Uzbekistan have announced their squads or not, yet?

There's obviously this resource which hasn't got them yet but they also don't have Bahrain which was announced a good few days ago so I'm wondering if the above three squads are available anywhere or not.

[aenima_8]

http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/sports/football/313770/qatar-begin-asian-cup-training

[littlepersia17]

Asian Cup - Group Preview - Friendlies, Information and more..

Here is a photo of some TM players on the plane bound for Australia.

ImageUploadedByTapatalk1419921532.176627.jpg

[Farhad-7]

Bahrain beating Saudi 2-0 at HT (Friendly)

http://www.goalzz.com/?c=9684