Iran vs Uzbekistan 9/11/2018 Match Thread

[The]

The good:
- We played more offensive than at any point this year
- Ebrahimi is still a tank. So is Ezzi
- Jahanbakhsh and Golizadeh is going to be a deadly combo, they just need more time
- Ashkan was decent
- Moharrami and Ghoddos will be good starters
- Stretched the field

The bad
- Azbedzadeh's exits and risky ball distribution
- Karim's positioning
- PAG's passes
- Ashkan's stamina
- CQ's Line-up. Even as an experiment, his line-up was questionable.

The Ugly
- Masoud. The fact that Ms.Frizzle keeps inviting him really annoys me. Bring him as an Assistant coach if it's about leadership.
- Vouria
- Taremi is not a good striker. He's slow, He can't finish.

[Farhad21]

They actually zoomed in and showed some women in stadium earlier on today
Either Uzbekistan is real weak and clueless or TM is doing a darn good job containing them.
Abedzadeh’s timings on his exits on aerial balls make me nervous. Very faulty
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Iran is the only country in the universe that doesn't allow women in the stadium and the only country in the universe to enforced hijab.

[H.Behzadi FAN]

Ezatollahi is a future STAR ... consider how young he is.
His IQ on the field is so impressive and having Ebrahimi next to him is very key to this team.
His pass to Taremi was world class and if Taremi had scored, it would have been one of the best goals TM has scored since it was NOT from a set piece.

Solid win against a quality opponent. This Uzbekistan team is way better than their WC team.
Game should have ended 3-1 to us.

[Keano]

Carlos Queiroz, the 1-0 doctor

CQ the result-oriented master!

[inarsenewetrust]

Amazing - our core weakness (before World Cup) was the central midfield position but in the past few months, it's become our core strength with Saeed Ezatolahi and Omid Ebrahimi bossing it. We also have a pretty good option in Ehsan Hajsafi on the bench to back them up.

They are not there yet - but feels good to be confident in the central midfield like we use to be with the duo of Nekonaum and Teymourian.

you didnt even mention amiri, who arguably could walk straight in and replace ebrahimi

[Tehranto]

Amazing - our core weakness (before World Cup) was the central midfield position but in the past few months, it's become our core strength with Saeed Ezatolahi and Omid Ebrahimi bossing it. We also have a pretty good option in Ehsan Hajsafi on the bench to back them up.

They are not there yet - but feels good to be confident in the central midfield like we use to be with the duo of Nekonaum and Teymourian.

[Tehranto]

Any video of the goal?

https://twitter.com/PersianFutbol

[inarsenewetrust]

Kaveh and Sardar both missed. Karim is a good third option (on the bench, that is all).

or on either wing. His hold up play is too weak at CF for international level/our style of play.

[Tehranto]

No way we are winning the Asian Cup without Sardar!

Kaveh and Sardar both missed. Karim is a good third option (on the bench, that is all). Guys, also, keep in mind that these haven't played for their clubs yet because they signed late.

- Karim Ansarifard
- Morteza Pouraliganji
- Saeed Ezatolahi

They were a bit rusty except Saeed. Dude was MOTM - what a beast! And only 21 ...

[Saam]

Any video of the goal?

[Ghermez Agha]

Some of you guys are tripping... Abedzadeh was a BEAST today. I'd give him a 8/10.

Obviously Beiro is still ahead in the depth chart but Abedzadeh reminds me of Ospina

tbf he had a few suspect moments especially towards the end of the game where he came off his line barley got to the ball and got lucky it bounced upward awkwardly off the uzbek forwrd's head. another one was the cross that came in from the right side in the first half (think it was ghafouri who got mixed) he was positioned off on that too. had a few decent saves as well and I wouldn't say he did poorly but by no means was that a good performance or one that should be praised.

[Kiarash]

Iran vs Uzbekistan 9/11/2018 Match Thread

Iran 1-0 Uzbekistan (WC prep friendly)
Iran 1-0 Lithuania (WC prep friendly)
Iran 1-0 Morocco (WC game)
Iran 1-0 Uzbekistan (AC prep friendly)

Carlos Queiroz, the 1-0 doctor

[diz]

We'll take this and run...who know when the next friendly is (or when it will get canceled).

[tiesto]

Also,

Does anyone else think KHIABANI needs to STFU ...
1. The guy was soooo Zedeh iran
2. The guy was unfair towards our plays
3. He made a huge deal of ANY uzbek move
4. He said "ghoddos DOBAREH takravai kard" ... I don't understand our pure DISLIKE of any sort of individual play
5. He never commented on how well we kept possession

[Nokhodi]

Torabi with a terrible pass at the end but decent win.
We need way more clinical play in the final 3rd.
Moharrami was wonderful along with Ezatollahi, Hosseini, and Ebrahimi.
Gholizadeh and Taremi were good and bad.
Ghodoos needs more time.
Worst player today unfortunately was Ghafouri. Shojaei didn't play much but he was really bad.
Abedzadeh is not great on crosses either.