Iran Vs. Lithuania

[Bi-honar]

If the Eurosport line-up is correct, we're playing a 4-1-4-1. There's absolutely no way CQ would play Masoud and Ashkan in the middle line in a 4-3-3 or if he does, he has completely lost his mind!

https://www.eurosport.com/football/international-friendlies/2018/live-iran-lithuania_mtc1019360/live.shtml

[iraniiii]

Answer = They do. Germany just did one in Italy. Most other countries will have won too. England's is on Monday.

It's particularly useful for a team like Iran as it means that opponents can't analyse our final team and CQ can surprise if he has a few tricks up his sleeve. I think it worked in 2014 against both Nigeria and Argentina.

The issue is that Iran is playing low quality teams... Irs gonna be interesting how Saudi and Iran do in WC. Saudi played top quality opponnets like Italy, Germany, Belgium. While we played Uzbakistan, Algeria and Lithiuania. Lets see which team will be more ready.. Iran's issue historically has been mental collapse due to weak friednlies. At least Saudis will be ready mentally and will not go through a shock due to exposure of high quality team that we never got.... WE SHALL SEE!!!

[DireStraits]

This line up seems to be CQ's plan against Morocco. no sub so far.

https://www.flashscore.ca/game/02VDFXZP/#lineups;1

[BacheLot]

What is seriously behind CQ decision on playing behind closed doors? How come other Tier 1 teams dont do this??? Like what is there to hide? Are we hiding strengths or weakness??? We did this last time and it clearly did not play off. What is CQ thinking?? Just curious...

maybe because we aint anywhere near Tier1 team and we sure as shitt gonna need a bit of surprise factor to increase our chance of miraculous advancement from this group..??

[Kavian]

I wonder if agha emam zaman, after all Iranians have done for him, will finally return the favor by helping our football team score a few goals out of no where!!

Or may be it just a one way relationship and I am totally in dark.

[Kiarash]

FYI, England only won 0-1 in Lithuania against Lithuania during their WCQ last year.

[Iran_19]

FYI, England only won 0-1 in Lithuania against Lithuania during their WCQ last year.

They also lost 4-0 to Georgia, 2-0 to Estonia and tied with Malta! Pretty crappy side!

[Omid177]

I wonder if agha emam zaman, after all Iranians have done for him, will finally return the favor by helping our football team score a few goals out of no where!!
Or may be it just a one way relationship and I am totally in dark.

Don't worry, he and Khamenei are playing mind games. They will help us on matchday against the evil Wahabi Zionist enemy Morocco.

[saeed_noro]

they will only post Full result, 0:0 is running automatically...does not mean it is really 0:0 because nobody can update it..yekam fekr konid baba,,

[versusdamon]

FYI, England only won 0-1 in Lithuania against Lithuania during their WCQ last year.

Yeah but they already had qualified by a margin of 6-8 points as far as I remember.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_%E2%80%93_UEFA_Group_F

[Nokhodi]

Its interesting that they don't even show the Iranian subs.
I wouldn't be surprised if the actual players playing are different what their names on the game sheet say

[Keano]

If us, the most hot headed and hardcore TM fans who follow TM news and games soooo closely are still confused on what our starting lineup and formations will be for the upcoming WC matches, then how on earth our opponents can predict our starting lineup. Any normal person with the IQ of 17 can add up all of the above and come up with a conclusion.

Need I say more? No I do not!

Reading through all these pages in this thread made me feel I was back in my elementary school...

[Kavian]

They also lost 4-0 to Georgia, 2-0 to Estonia and tied with Malta! Pretty crappy side!

Well . You know how it is.. they are all crappy until they get to us. Remember Lebanon, Syria, even turkmanistan .. the Lebanese goalie became buffan in that game.

[Tehranto]

they will only post Full result, 0:0 is running automatically...does not mean it is really 0:0 because nobody can update it..yekam fekr konid baba,,

Stop making too much sense.

How would they even know if someone scores or not? Unless they have a person there watching the game and reporting.

It will be 0-0, regardless of score until we got verification of score.

[Iran_19]

Its interesting that they don't even show the Iranian subs.
I wouldn't be surprised if the actual players playing are different what their names on the game sheet say

He did that in 2014 in our last friendlies matches(T&T i guess).