Iran 2:2 Croatia

Iran deserved to lead 3-1 on two different occasions. Borhani’s escape was NOT offside, and neither was Zandi’s in the first half.

Also Nekounam missed a pretty much open goal

Iran played the entire game without Mahdavikia (one of the stars) and both teams subbed out the main players second half.

Croatia were overall the better team but this is usually expected of the host teams. Our defense proved weak at times.

I think the world is still ignorant on Iran’s abilities and are very biased and misinformed in their opinions. I just hope this ignorance continue until after we shock the hell out of everyone.

Peace

Sounds like a fair assessment. Gotta pick it up a level, I have Iran winning their group.

Posted from  United States

[...] Croatia 2 – Iran 2 Thanks to the marvels of Chinese bootleg pirates (God bless you China, all one billion of you!), I watched a bit of this one. The game was more physical than you would expect for a friendly, but quite entertaining for a neutral observer. Iran took a 2-1 lead in the 83rd minute in part because of some horrific defense by Croatia. The hosts managed to salvage the tie thanks to a penalty converted by Marko Babic in the 90th minute. I still say Croatia is a dangerous team heading into the tournament. Their opener against Brazil should be a real cracker. I also maintain that Iran will go through to the second round despite all the comments and emails from Mexico fans telling me to stop smoking crack. I’ll continue to smoke my crack until Team Melli is eliminated, thank you. [...]

Posted from  United States

I think Iran did an amazing job today and if they played better they are ready to advance to the second round very easily. Iran could ve won the game but a draw is a good result because I think Croatia is one of the best teams in the competition. I thought before the game that even if Iran lost by goal difference then it has what it takes to win group D. Go Team Melli and dont forget Croatia is a very strong team this year !

Posted from  Lebanon

hey thanks Ahmad, don’t worry we will advance from this group if we don’t suffer injuries or fall victim to ref bias like today.

I believe everyone will still underestimate us even after seeing today’s performance. This can greatly play in our favor.

Afshin, to comment on your point #2, Croatia’s second goal was also a “gift made possible” by a bad error by Mirzapour!!!

Also, Borhani’s escape was definitely not an offside.

Considering these points, I think Iran did pretty good and that with mostly reserves in 2nd half. Of course, Croatia was not playing full force either. In fact, I belive, Croatia did not display its full potential in this game!

Posted from  United States

Hi Kia,

Yes, the linesman in this game was not good. There was another offside call on Zandi which did not look like a good call.

Mirzapour’s error was forced by a bad defensive play. The defender should not have touched the ball so that Mirzapour could pick it up.

Although Mirzapour should have slapped the ball away or something.

So I think as far as gifts go we are even.

I read a few comments about the time of posession. Iran is NOT a posession team; they have never been unless they play very weak teams. So I do not worry about that too much.

All in all, a good game for Team Melli.

Kevin(or Koveh?) is right!

CROATIA TEAM IS ALL ALMOST SUBS

THAT PLAY IN DIFFERNT LLEAGUES AROULD THE WORLD

simic tudor tomas tokic

ALL OF THOSES GUY i would take out that dFENCE IS A JOKE

GOALIE PLETIKOSA IS AJOKE I LOST FAITH IN HIM BUTINA done broke hes leg

OTHER GUY DEDLUICA IS A OTHER BIGGER JOKE!!!!!!!

kovac kranjar babic vrajes

the mid is a joke

fowards prso a joke

klansic is a 2 face GAMER

plays good than not even good

MY CROATIA TEAM WOULD BE HERE

1 PLETIKOSA Stipe (GK)
2 SRNA Darijo

4 KOVAC Robert

6 VRANJES Jurica

8 BABIC Marko

10 KOVAC Niko

15 LEKO Ivan
16 LEKO Jerko

20 SERIC Anthony
21 BALABAN Bosko
22 BOSNJAK Ivan

vs poles

fresh faces GOOD THING

U BETTER PLAY THESE LINE

Posted from  Canada