Day 4 [AFC Asian Cup 2019] - Date, Time, & Live Updates

[beri486]

Beating DPRK like that is not easy for any team.
Looks like Saudi got a good team this time.
But I reserve my final judgement until they play
Qatar. That's the "mother of all games" in the group stage.

[Keano]

Perhaps $omething has happened behind the $cene$.

Who know[emoji383]?


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[beevee]

Iran didn't allow a shot on goal all game long, if we had good luck we could have scored another 3 or 4 goals. I am sure Yemen would easily beat this NK team.
I would definitely be happy with a Iran v Arabia in the next round or after.

[Ostad_Goosfand]

Even though the Saudis are up 4:0, I have not been impressed by their performance at all. Defensively they look shaky against a very bad NK team, and they were very sloppy in the build up. Wouldn't mind facing them in the KO stages at all.

Assuming we both win our groups we cannot face them until final. Seems destined to be

[tooleh khers]

Spain and Saudi Arabia are not comparable in the speed of their buildup play.

You are the one that compared them. I merely compared the one game. How many times have Saudi's beat us exactly in the way I described? How many times? They beat us in Azadi in 2009 like this, few years ago in Azadi again for Olympics, In Asian youth Semis recently. All the same exact way.

[Tehranto]

Even though the Saudis are up 4:0, I have not been impressed by their performance at all. Defensively they look shaky against a very bad NK team, and they were very sloppy in the build up. Wouldn't mind facing them in the KO stages at all.

They are the boogeyman team for us - we are obviously better than them but I do not want to face them. I hope they are eliminated before facing us.

[irani8perspolis]

Even though the Saudis are up 4:0, I have not been impressed by their performance at all. Defensively they look shaky against a very bad NK team, and they were very sloppy in the build up. Wouldn't mind facing them in the KO stages at all.

[KC McElroy]

4-0 for the Saudis and the game is still on. This KSA so far looks the most venomous team of the tournament TBH. Both TM and KSA are for sure the biggest threats to other Asian teams. I was not expecting this kind of performance by the Saudis. Wonder if N. Korea is really that terrible!?

Perhaps $omething has happened behind the $cene$.

[beevee]

yes N koreans are terrible. they recently lost to someone else can't remember not a power house 5-0 too.

[tooleh khers]

don't agree, our defenders are our strength as shown in the WC. after watching this game between the Arabs and the N Koreans, I'd love to play the Arabs. If they don't pull another Arabization of the tournament we'd beat them by 3 or 4 goals if they do pull the typical cheating then we'd beat them by 1 or 2.

Of course they will Arabize the ref as well. It is a given. When was the last time we beat saudi Arabia? 2002! and before that 1996 in groups. They beat us a couple of times in Azadi with senior and Olympic teams and beat us in the Asian youth championships semis i believe with one of our best teams. All losses were the same way and through the exact weakness for us and strength for them.

[Tehranto]

This KSA so far looks the most venomous team of the tournament TBH. Both TM and KSA are for sure the biggest threats to other Asian teams. I was not expecting this kind of performance by the Saudis. Wonder if N. Korea is really that terrible!?

North Koreans lost 5-0 to Lebanon. They are not that 2010 World Cup team anymore and have not been for a while.

[Keano]

4-0 for the Saudis and the game is still on. This KSA so far looks the most venomous team of the tournament TBH. Both TM and KSA are for sure the biggest threats to other Asian teams. I was not expecting this kind of performance by the Saudis. Wonder if N. Korea is really that terrible!?

[beevee]

Our defenders are big and slow and not so good on the ground on top of being tackle prone. Saudi has fast technical players with good ground play and very dangerous in and around the box. I think our defense will have a hard day against Vietnam as well.

don't agree, our defenders are our strength as shown in the WC. after watching this game between the Arabs and the N Koreans, I'd love to play the Arabs. If they don't pull another Arabization of the tournament we'd beat them by 3 or 4 goals if they do pull the typical cheating then we'd beat them by 1 or 2.

[Tehranto]

Spain and Saudi Arabia are not comparable in the speed of their buildup play.

[TM4LIFE]

Quite the opposite, I disagree respectfully. Spain's build up is quite slow and like watching paint dry. Also against Spain we had 11 men behind the ball playing defense. Also Spanish players were just passing the ball around not going for too many dribbles in and around the box.

No, Spain looks to be playing like that a lot but its because their opponents often hold a deep block against them, specifically out of fear of their quick linkup play. Then they have to resort to slower, more probing play which can be boring.