Iran vs Iraq Post Match Ratings

[Tehranto]

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For the first time in this tournament, you can see the Metrica Score of Iran's players against Iraq. Individually, most of our players had an average game.

[ramingeles2000]

What is going on with Hosseini? Since he was benched in Trabzon he isn't the same player.

Not a single thing worries me more than Hosseini and PAG seeming rusty. Both are mid-way through their first season in Europe. Maybe they've lost a bit of confidence. Neither looked as air-tight as we're used to seeing them.

[Saam]

CQ doesn't "save" players. We don't really have a B team, that's the beauty of our squad. All 21 players (excluding 2nd and 3rd goalie) are used depending on what our goal is in each match, and what is required tactically. Fatigue or yellow cards are also factors. We played not to lose and avoid suspensions. Mission accomplished. From now on we will be playing to win.

[Ali Doust]

Careful, people might say you are under the influence of psychedelics voicing that opinion. I agree, he was going full speed in stride.

Thats why I don't like instant replay used for judging thee sort of situation. They look a lot worse on replay than in real life speed .

[mahestan]

ghoddos did nothing wrong here, he was still in stride when the violent iraqi player tried to injure him. props to ghoddos for not backing down to any of those iraqis that circled him

even tho this game had no meaning i wish we could have put a few passed this soorkah team

Careful, people might say you are under the influence of psychedelics voicing that opinion. I agree, he was going full speed in stride.

[Bagg10]

We played pretty defensive today. We were clearly going for at least a tie, so we can finish as table-toppers.

In the future, with Taremi there beside Azmoun, we will be more offensive.

Yeah, I meant our tactic/s in general.

Today we were trying to counter more than trying to dominate possession in the opposition's half.

[Sam van Dam]

ghoddos did nothing wrong here, he was still in stride when the violent iraqi player tried to injure him. props to ghoddos for not backing down to any of those iraqis that circled him

even tho this game had no meaning i wish we could have put a few passed this soorkah team

[Tehranto]

We pretty much do. The way we're set up, Taremi (and or Ansarifard) pinches in and lets Amiri/Ghoddos occupy the flank to make the cross from the left.

We played pretty defensive today. We were clearly going for at least a tie, so we can finish as table-toppers.

In the future, with Taremi there beside Azmoun, we will be more offensive.

[Bagg10]

wish we switched to 4-4-2 and let Sardar play with another striker....he CANNOT lead an attack all by himself

We pretty much do. The way we're set up, Taremi (and or Ansarifard) pinches in and lets Amiri/Ghoddos occupy the flank to make the cross from the left.

[Iran_19]

What is going on with Hosseini? Since he was benched in Trabzon he isn't the same player.

[EKBATAN]

wish we switched to 4-4-2 and let Sardar play with another striker....he CANNOT lead an attack all by himself

[OFFSIDE_1]

I imagine whould you say the same if our coach was iranian ?

Truth is Iran could not win and Iraq was much better, you may play for a single point and that was enough but does that explain why you dont have a single combination for 30 minutes of the match and look like you are india playing against brazil ?

Iran finished first
Iraq finished second

[DR Strangemoosh]

Beiranvand - 8.5. Good anticipation for each of the times he was called on. Exudes confidence
Ghafouri - 6 A few nice overlaps but positioning was poor and right side always seemed to have a gap
Hosseini - 5.5 Not his usual self. Positioning was odd a lot of the time.
Kanaani - 6.5 Seemed a very confiden , strong presence but still had 1-2 sootis.
Mohammadi - 8 Controlled his line perfectly. Flawless defensive performance. Not much attacking threat.
Cheshmi - 6 Cumbersome, didn't protect his defenders well enough
Ebrahimi - 6.5 All round midfield role meant he pushed up a lot and got into good positions but not much came out of it
Amiri - 6.5 Ran around a lot but not enough end product. Throw-ins all good
Ghoddos - 5 Because of his foul. Corners were also really sub-par. Otherwise played OK
Jahanbakhsh - 4.5 Not really in the game but he's only just come back from injury so can't blame him
Azmoun - 8 Miss in the first half was poor. Apart from that hustled, dropped a bit and helped thread balls to people which should have been used better, and even did better headers in our defence than our defenders.


Taremi - 5.5 Didn't really get much of the ball
Torabi - 6.5 Had an impact and won some dangerous set pieces.
Dejagah - NoT Rated. Too short to have an impact but helped calm things down

[NFL]

I don't know what there is to rate. Our plan on offense today was Vahid Amriri's long throw ins. that's not going to cut it against any of the top Asian teams.

[Keano]

Knowing CQ, there's no way this "cycling players for the sake of keeping them fresh" thing continues into the knockout stages. He's going to field the best 11 that are most capable of winning the game in regulation. He won't "save" players for hypothetical later matches.

Do coaches in the world cup rest players during knockout rounds?

As much as I would like to agree with you on the first part of your post, but in WC there are no 3rd. teams advancing to the knockout round, I am sure if there were such case, most powerhouse teams would have fielded somewhat their B team or rested some of their key players.