Branko promises “No more gifts” to opponents

well branko promised many things! like to be the korea of 2002 world cup! but in iran-mexico we saw how can we trust him! what we are searching for? world cup for iranian finished! we loose game againts mexico!and also we loose world cup! japan too! i think a big shame to japanies ! theire siuation was so much better! they had more freindly games and more mony for spend and also they had a game with a team which is not so hard to win! but beacuse of political situation and some others our players had no enough game to find problems! one of the reason of loosing againts mexico is having no experiance!even if we had that mr branko could do a better job!even befor the world cup all would see that daei is not that good guy and we didnt see somthing like happened againts mexico! is this true to say byebye to daei in the middle of world cup!that true that mr daei did a wrong doing but mr dadkan and branko are responsible for him! cuse with what they did for him they made him an old bad player in the world!world will know him as that!there is just a shame for hiim and he loos what he earn in footbball for himself!he loos being a good player in people thinking(people of the world)! so sorry for all!

Posted from  Islamic Republic Of Iran

Despite the fact that Daei won’t be playing in the game against Portugal Iran won’t be in a very good shape. Karimi and Mahdavikia are the engines of Iran’s attack game. Against Mexico they were both playing at 50% or less. Nonetheless, their delivery of the ball generated Iran’s main chances to score (Karimi’s pass to Hashemian whose header was blocked by the goalie and Mahdavikia’s corner kick which resulted in the goal).

Karimi’s injury got worse during the game (that’s why he left) and his full recovery before the Portugal game is doubtful. He can be replaced by Madanchi (for the entire game or just the second half) who has been playing great football lately. Madanchi is very fast but he’s also younger and doesn’t have Karimi’s experience in club and internation level. The advantage that Madanchi may have is that he is much less known for the opposite team so they may not try to cover him as much as they would with Karimi.

Taymourian who did a great job against Mexico as a defensive midfielder may be able to replace Zandi on the left and provide some defensive support for Nosrati who did a pathetic job against Mexico. If you watch the Mexico game again you’ll see that when we were about to receive our second goal Nosraty was nowhere to be seen. And again when the Mexican players attacked from our left to score their third goal Nosrati (our left defender) was slowly walking (not even running) close to the midfield line, about 20 meters away from the ball and behind the Mexican attack. I used to criticize Golmohammadi for our defensive problems but Nosrati has been doing such an awful job that I don’t dare criticize Golmohammadi any more, especially after the goal he scored against Mexico. Unfortunately, we don’t have anyone better to replace Nosrati so our only other option is to have our left midfield player support Nosrati. Taymourian would probably be the best player for such a role. Borhani could then take on the attack from the left flank and provide passes to Hashemian in the middle.

Iran’s problem has always been in the defense but despite this Branko never seriously experimented with other players in qualifying games, Asian games, or even friendlies to see if they can do a better job than Nosrati or Golmohammadi. The same can be said about our goalie. Branko says that Roudbarian or other goalies don’t have the international experience to replace Mirzapour but that’s because he never took the chance to allow them to play in those games so how can they gain the experience? It’s a catch 22 and the only way to break it would have been for Branko to take a chance and we know that that’s not in his nature.

As for Mahdavikia, we don’t have any player that could replace him and produce the same results for us even if he’s playing at 50%. I hope that he improves in the next few days before the Portugal game, even though the reality is that back injuries usually take a very long time to get sorted out, if ever.

Even though Daei’s departure is a positive development for Team Melli, with our long list of injured key players I’m not very optimistic about the Portugal game. At this point, I’m praying for some more good news before the end of the week.

Posted from  United States

Now the question is::::

When Mirzapour ( Mirza-choghondar) will be out? After loosing to Angola or……….

Posted from  Canada

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Posted from  Ukraine

here is a link to watch Iran-Mexico analyse.

Posted from  Canada

here is a link to watch Iran-Mexico analyse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj7cFdSNRGU

Posted from  Canada

watch how we lost to our coach

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDkw70Yk2xM

Posted from  Canada

Abbas jAn,

The second one seems to be the wrong url!

Can you check it out please? I’d like to post it. I am going to post the first one.

Thanks.

Posted from  United States

I’m a fan of Mexico and I just wanted to tell you that you guys have nothing to be ashamed of. Iran played a good game that had me biting my nails most of the game. I think you have an even chance at beating Portugal. You guys can still qualify.

Posted from  United States

they have no chance of beating portugal. maybe when it starts to rain cats and dogs. they have a chance just like they have chance of winning a war. viva portugal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted from  United States

Then I hope it’ll start to rain cats and dogs on June 17th

As far a war, I promiss Iran will win any war against Portugal…

Posted from  United States

Don’t forget about president Ahmadinejad’s role in our defeat! Because of his comments about holocaust nobody played any friendly with us and here is the result! Mexico played friendly with strong opponents one after the other, they lost some friendlies, but they won the one which counts!

Posted from  United States

Portugal couldn’t take out a weak Angola team. It seems more unlikely that they will just run over a good Iran team.

Posted from  United States

Daniel,

I think Angola preformed pretty good. They played very solid defensively!

Posted from  United States

portugal has gone undifeated since the euro cup lose to greece and as far as iran winning they have no chance so go hoop an egg and VIVA PORUGAL

Posted from  Canada

portugal will mop the feild with you

Posted from  United States

You meant to say FOR you right?thanx..i’ll bring some nice handmade one made in isfahan for them…Make sure to tell them to do a good job too!!

Posted from  United States

Tony, Portugal means orange in Persian. We are going to squeeze Portugal then toss them around a bit then peel them and eat them.

Iran has a lot to lose more than Orange ☺ (sorry Portugal). I am sure will see an exciting match.

Posted from  Australia