Team Melli Weakness Thread!

[taremiscores]

Weaknesses:
- Set pieces
- Midfield (we would be stronger if Omid Ebrahimi was invited)
- Manager (no experience and has not implemented his particular style on the team)
- LB position: Omid Noorafkan/Milad/Hajsafi are all disasters
- RB position: Sadegh if he stays healthy is OK, Hardani would be good

[taremiscores]

We also have a pretty tall team (Sardar, Saeid, Mehdi, Hossein, Majid etc.) and yet we cannot get on the end of a set piece?

[Ostad_Goosfand]

midfield is weak. Eza is out of shape, Amiri is old, nourollahi is bang average.

[Transformer]

This thread dedicated to our weakness and possible solutions . So hopefully the media can put pressure on team melli to fix these problems. [If you also noticed other team melli weakness please do share here with us so we can discuss it in more details]

Fitness
Right now our biggest problem is fitness. I have no idea what has happened to our players but all of a sudden their fitness shrunk like crazy. Gholizadeh, Sardar , Saeed , noorolahi ... almost all of our players except Mehdi.
We have about 7 months and trust me these 7 months are very crucial for us. Our players need to work hard and get fit for World cup, we seriously don't want the WC 2006 BS scenario to repeat itself. I remember during CQ our players could easily run 130 minutes without any problem and I saw the same with egyption players under CQ. So maybe team melli staff should copy what CQ did, to increase our fitness level for WC.
Set Pieces
Another important factor is that WE MUST WORK on our set pieces. Its very very worrying that we haven't scored any goals from our set pieces in last 14 matches. Set pieces specially freekicks have always helped us out in compact games. Despite having strong players like sardar and mehdi taremi, we haven't scored any goals from our corners or freekicks.
Both Sardar and Mehdi are well known for winning aerial duels in their clubs. So how come team melli staff can't figure out a way to fix the problem when we have tall players like Kanani , Azmoun , Sardar or even norolahi.
We Had
66 Corners
0 Goals scored!
Couldn't really find exact stats regarding our freekicks but I'm sure we haven't scored any goals from that either in last 14 matches.
I assume we had about
20-30 Freekicks
0 Goals
Honestly with the group that we got, it's a great oppurtunity for us to advance. I think with hard work and dedication we can advance from our group and possibly go further than R16 to R8. We will face either senegal or netherland if we advance, so it won't be a tough draw for us.
In order to sort those problems we really need strong friendly matches, atleast 4 european teams and 2 american teams. Good thing is that this year we got no african teams so we can only concentrate on 2 continent rather than three continent.
The perfect time for our friendly games with european teams has to be on "27th April - 1st May - 1st June ) . We must act now before its too late.
European teams : ( any 4 teams from the list below)
north macedonia - I don't think won't be that hard to get them
Turkey - we are neighbors and we have played few times before
Italy - maybe we can persuade them to make history by playing against us in a friendly match that females are allowed to stadium for first time in a friendly match.
Sweden - We played them before so maybe we can get them again
Poland - They are facing an asian team so we're deffo good candidate for friendly match
Germany/Spain - They are also facing an asian team so maybe they would be interested too.
The best time for friendly matches against these teams would be when nations league is in place . So in june.
North American teams (2 or 3 teams )
Ecuador/Meixco - Would be perfect but i doubt IFF would even try to get them
Costa Rica - If they don't make it then it would be great candidate for us. Pretty decent team.
Panama - close relations so we can deffo get them
Jamaica - Very good candidate, as they gave usa some tough time also we played them before so it won't be problem to get them again.
Honduras - Not bad
1 Asian and 1 African team - If we have space for a chicky one
Japan - I think they have requested a friendly match
Uzbekistan - They have european style features
Mali - We had a friendlt game with them but it was canceled
Nigeria - Since we played them in WC14, so maybe they would be interested to play against us.
Please do share your thoughts on this.

fitnes is the key for me

[Under Lahaf]

We should definitely play against Costa Rica (wonder whether IFF can afford to send them there) US hasn't beaten Costa Rica at their home stadium in the last 6 or 8 games I believe (if ever) and lost last game by 2 goals although they had basically qualified already (couldn't lose by more than 4 goals)

Persuade Italy by allowing female fans? Problem is not us nor Italy, problem is the regime so....it won't happen`

Any team in group H such as Portugal / Ghana should be good for us and also them as they will be facing S Korea
Same goes with Poland I guess

I think we are already set for a friendly against Japan

[milad_b]

This thread dedicated to our weakness and possible solutions . So hopefully the media can put pressure on team melli to fix these problems. [If you also noticed other team melli weakness please do share here with us so we can discuss it in more details]


Fitness
Right now our biggest problem is fitness. I have no idea what has happened to our players but all of a sudden their fitness shrunk like crazy. Gholizadeh, Sardar , Saeed , noorolahi ... almost all of our players except Mehdi.

We have about 7 months and trust me these 7 months are very crucial for us. Our players need to work hard and get fit for World cup, we seriously don't want the WC 2006 BS scenario to repeat itself. I remember during CQ our players could easily run 130 minutes without any problem and I saw the same with egyption players under CQ. So maybe team melli staff should copy what CQ did, to increase our fitness level for WC.



Set Pieces
Another important factor is that WE MUST WORK on our set pieces. Its very very worrying that we haven't scored any goals from our set pieces in last 14 matches. Set pieces specially freekicks have always helped us out in compact games. Despite having strong players like sardar and mehdi taremi, we haven't scored any goals from our corners or freekicks.

Both Sardar and Mehdi are well known for winning aerial duels in their clubs. So how come team melli staff can't figure out a way to fix the problem when we have tall players like Kanani , Azmoun , Sardar or even norolahi.

We Had
66 Corners
0 Goals scored!

Couldn't really find exact stats regarding our freekicks but I'm sure we haven't scored any goals from that either in last 14 matches.

I assume we had about
20-30 Freekicks
0 Goals

Honestly with the group that we got, it's a great oppurtunity for us to advance. I think with hard work and dedication we can advance from our group and possibly go further than R16 to R8. We will face either senegal or netherland if we advance, so it won't be a tough draw for us.

In order to sort those problems we really need strong friendly matches, atleast 4 european teams and 2 american teams. Good thing is that this year we got no african teams so we can only concentrate on 2 continent rather than three continent.

The perfect time for our friendly games with european teams has to be on "27th April - 1st May - 1st June ) . We must act now before its too late.

European teams : ( any 4 teams from the list below)

north macedonia - I don't think won't be that hard to get them
Turkey - we are neighbors and we have played few times before
Italy - maybe we can persuade them to make history by playing against us in a friendly match that females are allowed to stadium for first time in a friendly match.
Sweden - We played them before so maybe we can get them again
Poland - They are facing an asian team so we're deffo good candidate for friendly match
Germany/Spain - They are also facing an asian team so maybe they would be interested too.

The best time for friendly matches against these teams would be when nations league is in place . So in june.

North American teams (2 or 3 teams )
Ecuador/Meixco - Would be perfect but i doubt IFF would even try to get them
Costa Rica - If they don't make it then it would be great candidate for us. Pretty decent team.
Panama - close relations so we can deffo get them
Jamaica - Very good candidate, as they gave usa some tough time also we played them before so it won't be problem to get them again.
Honduras - Not bad

1 Asian and 1 African team - If we have space for a chicky one

Japan - I think they have requested a friendly match
Uzbekistan - They have european style features

Mali - We had a friendlt game with them but it was canceled
Nigeria - Since we played them in WC14, so maybe they would be interested to play against us.

Please do share your thoughts on this.