Confederations Cup

[Kiarash]

Merge this thread with the other please

[EKBATAN]

Why do we have 2 threads for this?

[Shahin K]

Confederations Cup

,...Which the idiotic UAE ref so cruelly cancelled!!!

Indeed, the brazilians themselfs looked surprised it was called off.

[eerooni]

And against Brazil we also lost 3-0. We did score a legal goal first though

,...Which the idiotic UAE ref so cruelly cancelled!!!

[Shahin K]

Confederations Cup

And against Brazil we also lost 3-0. We did score a legal goal first though

[PSGman#19]

Actually Iran plays alot better against big teams. Everyworld cup we have made an impact, even against Portugal we did well, gave them alot harder time than Japan ever would.

Against Portugal we did shit, almost of the match was in iran last 30 meters with an occasion of Portugal every 3 minutes. The only good thing we did was the first half against Mexico (like the first half against yougoslavia in 98).
Japan was s*** because their was against a team which was very physical, tall compared to them and agressive.

[Paradigm]

Watch this beauty from Neymar:

[elnino99]

Actually Iran plays alot better against big teams. Everyworld cup we have made an impact, even against Portugal we did well, gave them alot harder time than Japan ever would.

Let's not re-write the history.

Japan gave a very hard time to Netherlands in 2010 and lost via a lucky deflection. They also beat 2 very decent teams in Cameroon and Denmark. Only failed to reach the last 8 in penalty-shoot outs against Paraguay.

[Camran khan]

Tahiti will win this!

Tahiti shireh

[aryanirani]

I dont understand , Japan is getting owned BIG TIME by Brazil. I mean not even one Jap pass or tackle is correct, Its an Asian mentality , when faced with big names Asian teams crumble!

Actually Iran plays alot better against big teams. Everyworld cup we have made an impact, even against Portugal we did well, gave them alot harder time than Japan ever would.

[Kiarash]

Tahiti will win this!

[Shahin K]

Confederations Cup

No they are not. They have an obligation to Australia, Oman, and Jordan to give their best in all games, even if qualified. If It was our group, we'd have wanted them to go and beat Iraq as it's an important game.

Had Japan played a B team in Doha, and lost to Iraq....then the complexions of that group would have been VERY different.

well done to Japan for being professional. Confed. is a glorified friendly tournament....WCQ more important.

Yeah, I thought Iraq was already out for the first 3 places. My mistake

[TM4LIFE]

Confederations Cup

n the other hand TM has impressively picked up its game and quickly regaining its past power, thus hopefully earning its Asian powerhouse respect!

We have yet to confirm this, as we will know after Tuesdays match. However I agree that we are on the rise again slowly but surely

[Keano]

Why did japan play with so many starters in a meaningless game vs iraq while they have a conf. Game vs. Brasil 4 days later.. Jet lag, fatigue...

Fairplay, the result of this match would have had direct effect on other teams of the group, how tolerant all of us would be should Qatar send their B team to face Uzbekistan on Tuesday? it would definitely be very unfair to both us and Korea. Japan has always been a super class-act team for I always admire them!

On a side note, both S. Korea and Japan in the past few years have noticeably dropped some of their past quality, for Korea it's somewhat understandable as they lost some of they key players due to retiring from NT, however Japan's drop is unjustifiable, the luckily drew Australia in the added time by a Penalty shot, and last week they barely managed to defeat a weakened Iraqi side, not to mention their disappointing club display of this year's ACL.

n the other hand TM has impressively picked up its game and quickly regaining its past power, thus hopefully earning its Asian powerhouse respect!

[elnino99]

Well then they were absolutely idiots for playing with their A team. Like i said above.

No they are not. They have an obligation to Australia, Oman, and Jordan to give their best in all games, even if qualified. If It was our group, we'd have wanted them to go and beat Iraq as it's an important game.

Had Japan played a B team in Doha, and lost to Iraq....then the complexions of that group would have been VERY different.

well done to Japan for being professional. Confed. is a glorified friendly tournament....WCQ more important.