World Cup 2022 Qualifier: Iran - Hong Kong; Info, Updates & Live Reports (03.06.21)

[Leicester City]

Iran vs. Hong Kong Highlights

[KC McElroy]

^ The Hongkongers? Hongkongese? Hong Kong people? were angry at us for calling them out on their anti-football tactics, so they made a video in response to call us out on "diving" in the match as they put it.

So they have made a highlight reel of the legit penalties that the ref didn't call.

[Leicester City]

^ The Hongkongers? Hongkongese? Hong Kong people? were angry at us for calling them out on their anti-football tactics, so they made a video in response to call us out on "diving" in the match as they put it.

[Farzadfarhangni]

nourollahi played full 90 minutes. i wonder if this means he is not going to play him for bahrain game?

I don't think he played badly yesterday. And his strong shots surprised me too. In my opinion, any two of Nourollahi, Amiri, Ezzatolahi and Ghoddos in our holding midfield position would do. Each have positives and negatives.

PS Notice no mention of Hajsafi...

[Ostad_Goosfand]

nourollahi played full 90 minutes. i wonder if this means he is not going to play him for bahrain game?

[Philosophy_King]

Hong Kong is a tough team to play, they stood compact and made it very hard to create scoring chances. The Task became even harder under the bad conditions of the playing ground. For East-Asians they are also quite tall and physical, I was impressed by the fact, that we couldn't capitalize on set-pieces or corners against them. Hong Kong can def. pull an upset and catch a point against both Iraq and/or Bahrain. Overall i am happy with the result and would rate our performance as "ok".
What could be an issue when facing Bahrain and Iraq is TM lack of concentration in the defense, lack of discipline, fatigue (specially under the heat of the Persian Gulf) and the lack of precision in their passing game. Hope to see improvement in those areas against Bahrain.

[AMIRHOUSHANG]

we were ok in first half second half we were better
we had rust issues, our legioners were abit tired as well, but since we have 5 subs against bahrain , we can beat them , in fact we have to beat them!

I agree and am hoping for the best.

[PSGman#19]

That was worst performance by our national team
As long as as i been following them since the 1984 asian cup
Players like sardar and taremi had no urgency and where playing in a way so they dont get their shirts dirty.
The poor result thats a different story but to see no passion with them 2 GAVE ME HEADACHE specialy sardar
Memo to taremi and sardar
Next time you get called up DONT COME IF YOU THINK YOUR s.... dont stinks.
We needed goals and loys of goals and this hk team was weak as it comes and qe missed opportunity to have a legit shot at second place.
NOW WE HAVE TO BEAT BAHRAIN AND IRAQ TO FINISH 1ST
with 6 points and +2gd in the 2nd place table we have slim chance.
Gaedy would of been perfect for this match since
EIN BAZI BAZIKON DRIB ZAN MIKHAST and
Both golozadeh and ansarifar goals was indication of that.

I am all in for 4 catastrophic performances but 4 wins 1/0.
Just the result matters

[inarsenewetrust]

I am as big a CQ fan as you can find, but the reason we had a good defense was because CQ allocated more resources to it and less resources offensively. It does not matter 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 or 4-4-2 or whatever... Each player has a responsibility and for example, yesterday, we were playing with 4 defenders and Moharami and Amiri/Mohammadi were playing far higher on the pitch than anytime under CQ. They were playing more as wingers than right and left fullbacks. There are consequences to this. Yes, you score more goals, but you give up a silly goal here and there. Under CQ, we did not score many goals either.

BTW, I watched the game again last night. Moharami was completely gassed after 65th minute. We don't see what led to the Hong Kong goal but the video picks up from Moharami not covering his winger well, the guy sends in a nice cross and header for the goal. I think Moharami will have a more defensive role against Bahrain and may be able to conserve his energy better for 90 minutes, but if he keeps doing the overlapping runs to the wing, he may need a sub after 60 minutes.

Im surprised skocic played him full game (I think esmailifar would have been fine for last 20 mins) given that prior to this he has just played 60 mins in past 4 months. He definitely did not look at sharp/focussed as pre injury but obviously that is pretty normal after a long layoff

[Farzadfarhangni]

Sadly enough Nokhodi jaan, since departure of Carlos Queiroz, our defense is getting back to its old days sooraakh defense. Ironically ever since he left, TM is conceding stupid goals.

I never forget in our last World Cup qualification, we were the only team without having been scored on until our very last game against Syria. I well remember how pissed Queiroz was for conceding that goal.


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I am as big a CQ fan as you can find, but the reason we had a good defense was because CQ allocated more resources to it and less resources offensively. It does not matter 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 or 4-4-2 or whatever... Each player has a responsibility and for example, yesterday, we were playing with 4 defenders and Moharami and Amiri/Mohammadi were playing far higher on the pitch than anytime under CQ. They were playing more as wingers than right and left fullbacks. There are consequences to this. Yes, you score more goals, but you give up a silly goal here and there. Under CQ, we did not score many goals either.

BTW, I watched the game again last night. Moharami was completely gassed after 65th minute. We don't see what led to the Hong Kong goal but the video picks up from Moharami not covering his winger well, the guy sends in a nice cross and header for the goal. I think Moharami will have a more defensive role against Bahrain and may be able to conserve his energy better for 90 minutes, but if he keeps doing the overlapping runs to the wing, he may need a sub after 60 minutes.

[Iran_19]

That was worst performance by our national team
As long as as i been following them since the 1984 asian cup
Players like sardar and taremi had no urgency and where playing in a way so they dont get their shirts dirty.
The poor result thats a different story but to see no passion with them 2 GAVE ME HEADACHE specialy sardar
Memo to taremi and sardar
Next time you get called up DONT COME IF YOU THINK YOUR s.... dont stinks.

We needed goals and loys of goals and this hk team was weak as it comes and qe missed opportunity to have a legit shot at second place.
NOW WE HAVE TO BEAT BAHRAIN AND IRAQ TO FINISH 1ST
with 6 points and +2gd in the 2nd place table we have slim chance.

Gaedy would of been perfect for this match since
EIN BAZI BAZIKON DRIB ZAN MIKHAST and
Both golozadeh and ansarifar goals was indication of that.

Take it easy dude.
They had a bad game but the most important game is vs Bahrain
They both helped TM many many times so saying they probably was saving their legs or didn't care is harsh

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[Doctor DOOM]

many of you guys have covered what I wanted to say.
just a couple of points tho'

1- I doubt either taremi or azmoun even got out of their 2nd gear. I Hope it was coach's instructions to take it easy and not push too hard or tire themselves. Take it as a warm up.
This fits well with most of what we saw from them. Except perhaps I would have liked to take both out by min 55-60.

2- Bahrain game.
I wld love it if we rape the bloody buggers on their home ground. Nothing makes me more happy.
And we can very well beat them. We SHOULD on all accounts, on paper or otherwise, squad and experience and int'l exposure ... etc. point to that.
But realistically, even a draw would favor us than them.
and that means they have to eventually come out of their traditional cocoon. and thats when we hit them.


3- Cambodia's game seems pretty much insignificant for us. So our B team can handle them, allowing much needed rest to the A team for the final game.


4- Why on earth were there no drink breaks (at least I didnt notice)?
AFC ought to know better.


5- extremely happy with Ezzi's vision & ball distribution.
He almost does the job of two players. We better keep him safe and fit.

[nisfejahan]

Gaedy would of been perfect for this match since
EIN BAZI BAZIKON DRIB ZAN MIKHAST and
Both golozadeh and ansarifar goals was indication of that.

Good observation...when the bus is parked, you need players who can penetrate the box and create chances

[TM4LIFE]

On a random note I can’t find any good recent highlight videos of Gholizadeh. Feels like he’s been tearing things up the past 2 years for club and country but nothing on YouTube!

[metallica69]

Being the second team in Asia and having no weight in its federation is absolutely unforgivable. But we need to over come these obstacles at some point afc will give up. Advantage of having an out spoken coach with caliber as CQ was these things were better managed. Our midfield is key in the game against Bahrain, hopefully we have a plan.