Friendly: Bosnia and Herzegovina - Iran; Info, Updates and Live Reports (12.11.2020)

[Futbaldoost]

Again, overall good match yet one other observation was the passing accuracy. It was 285 out of 412 or 69%. That's low. You could also sense many bad passes by watching yet the stats support the viewing observation. As others said, Ehsan is done. I am not sure why he gets invited. I appreciate all the hard work he has done in the past yet its time to move on.

Go TM!

[Leicester City]

Are there any highlights of the match by ESPN?

For highlights, not that I am aware of.

They do have a replay of the full match on their site provided access to through your cable provider/accessible through a college or university network amongst a few ways: https://www.espn.com/watch/player/_/...5-5f33c66c3d4e

[Keano]

My man of the match: ESPN commentator How the hell does he know Farsi and what Shoja means?

Obviously he did his homework on Iran and I was surprised and impressed with his vast knowledge of Iranian football. (Also he was kind of being partial towards Iran which I loved!)

Are there any highlights of the match by ESPN?

[naderb94]

My take on this game is:
A. The team is really starting to believe in Skokic! This is a big difference to when Wilmots was the manager. This gives me hope that we will qualify for the WC.
B. Our attacking has much depth! He basically won with our B squad attackers.
C. Defense is still sharp and has more depth with Shoja in the fold now!
D. Midfield is the weakness of the team currently. Hajsafi needs to be a bench player. Saeed needs more playing time to improve fitness.

[Keano]

It was more the case of CQ completely getting our game tactics wrong than anything else..!!
had we played to our strength similarly to Argentina match, we had a great chance of snatching up some point(s) from that fixture but CQ panicked and uncharacteristically open us wide open and Bosnians punished us rightly and rather easily for it..!

But BL jaan, in all fairness, we can't compare a friendly match to an official World Cup match. Mind you prior to 2014 infamous loss, we had encountered Bosnia 5 times, with 4 wins and a draw, and then all of a sudden after all those fancy victories, we were beaten by them where it really mattered (World Cup) Also keep in mind in that game we HAD TO win the game in order to qualify. So our arrangement for Bosnia match was almost offensive (Although I do agree that with Argentina we also played quite offensive, not sure if it was momentums or CQ's game plan)

Anyhow we played quite impressively. Our defense was almost as flawless as CQ's team, while midfield and offense lines also were pretty good. We need to keep in mind that this was almost Team Melli B. Kudos to the boys as well as Skocic.

[Leicester City]

Dragan Skočić post-match

[Leicester City]

My man of the match: ESPN commentator How the hell does he know Farsi and what Shoja means?

Obviously he did his homework on Iran and I was surprised and impressed with his vast knowledge of Iranian football. (Also he was kind of being partial towards Iran which I loved!)

[TM4LIFE]

Where are those comments from the bosnian forums claiming they didn't need to field a strong side against us and go for a win
Barely ~60% possession and nothing to show for it

[diz]

[The Realist]

One of the greatest achievements about this win, the two goals were scored through teamwork, open play and passing rather than what we are traditionally good at, the set piece!