Best line up against Japan??

[ehsan singapore]

i swear if iran loses to japan, mayli kohan will come up and blame the european team for not letting jahanbaksh and azmoun go or blame cq or the wall. he blame the qatar playing saying they were over aged, now lets see what this clown have to say

[shahramii]

come on cheshmi is not a defender. not his position

[Gotham]

--------------------------Akhbari---------------------

Mohammadi----Cheshmi----Kanani----Alice Cooper--

-------------------------Karimi--------------------
-------Torabi--------Saghebi------Kamandani-----

----------------Kamandani -----------------------
-----------------------------------Motahaeri-----------

Alice Cooper for TM!!

[Adesor Vafaseya]

--------------------------Akhbari---------------------

Mohammadi----Cheshmi----Kanani----Alice Cooper--

-------------------------Karimi--------------------
-------Torabi--------Saghebi------Kamandani-----

----------------Kamandani -----------------------
-----------------------------------Motahaeri-----------

[Ando Teymourian]

Definitely shouldn't try the "all out attack" (if we can even call it that) tactic that we've been implementing so far. While it may put Japan on its heels, they will also burn us way worse than Qatar on counters. If Khakpour insists on playing Kanaani at RB and Cheshmi as a CB, then we will need a different game plan vs Japan.

The key is focus, don't be frightened by your opponent. Play smart, football is a game of inches... losing concentration on one play could mean the end of your tournament now.

[Hosseini]

Play a 5 back with counter attacking football. Otherwise, could be a soorakh game. Our team has huge defensive issues... basic stuff: passing marks, spacing, silly tackles

[PersianLegion]

if we wanna beat japan, we need to play smart, defend well attack well we need tourabi and ehsan pahlevab to feed the forwards and attack well. we must defend, our defense has been poor all along

Yes. That's right.

[ehsan singapore]

if we wanna beat japan, we need to play smart, defend well attack well we need tourabi and ehsan pahlevab to feed the forwards and attack well. we must defend, our defense has been poor all along

[PersianLegion]

if we wanna beat japan, we need to play smart, defend well attack well we need tourabi and ehsan pahlevab to feed the forwards and attack well. we must defend, our defense has been poor all along

Thank you for your advice. I hope Haji Mayeli listens to this.

[ehsan singapore]

if we wanna beat japan, we need to play smart, defend well attack well we need tourabi and ehsan pahlevab to feed the forwards and attack well. we must defend, our defense has been poor all along

[teammelli91]

We will most likely be facing Jordan, UAE or Iraq if we pass Japan.

Passing Japan is the most important step. We need to qualify to the semis.

[teammelli91]

Whatever formation it's going to be, they should prepare counter attack tactics for this match.

Defensively we have not shown to be strong, so we need to focus on our defense in the 4 days of preparation that's left.

[Bi-honar]

As far as line-up and formation for this match, it's a bit encouraging that Khakpour hasn't stuck with a 4-1-4-1 throughout this competition and WAFF and we have switched to 4-2-3-1 in mid match several times.

That suggests to me (and I'm HOPING this is true) that Khakpour may have been experiencing with the 4-2-3-1 for this match and given our perceived weakness in defense, that second defensive midfielder could be crucial against Japan.

On that note, I'm going with the majority of the squad that lined-up against Syria in WAFF final and again put on a good performance against Syria in the 1st match, with minor changes and switch to a 4-2-3-1 instead of 4-1-4-1 (minutes played in brackets)

------------------------------------------------Mohammadreza Akhbari (270)

Ali Abdollahzadeh (180)--Roozbeh Cheshmi (270)--Mohammad Daneshgar (180)---Vahid Heidarieh (180)

-------------------------------------Ali Karimi (201) ---------------------- Alireza Naghizadeh (180)

Mehdi Torabi (188)------------------------ Milad Kamandani (152)---------------------- Milad Mohammadi (152)

-------------------------------------------------Arsalan Motahhari (241)

[Bi-honar]

we have a very tough game against japan. Unfortunately in the last 3 games it looks like Khakpoor & Co has lost the 2nd half which is the "coaches half".

In terms of scores (objectively), we won the Syria match in the 2nd half and the other two matches were tied in the 2nd half PE jaan.

In terms of play (subjectively), I think we were the better team in the 2nd half in the first two matches and had Khakpour not instructed the guys to sit back after the 3rd goal against China, we would have ran all over them.

So I don't think it's all doom and gloom as far as our coaching staff, although I'm sure we would have all preferred no MK and a more experienced coach than Khakpour going into this - but after all we are talking about the IR here, where shit rises to the top faster than anywhere else on earth!

[_Navid_]

---------------------------------------Akhbari---------------------------------------
---------Abdollahzadeh-------Daneshgar--------Kanaani--------Heydarieh------
-------------------------------- Cheshmi-Kamandani------------------------------
------Torabi-------------------------Karimi------------------Mohammadi--------
---------------------------------------Motahari -----------------------------------

I like this one. Good defensively and good for counters.