Asood Al Raifidain - Iraqi NT Thread - Road To Brazil 2014 [R]

Just found the link that confirms that the latest ranking will be used to determine the draw for round 4:


http://www.the-afc.com/en/news-cent...35931-afc-announces-key-competition-decisions


"2014 F1FA World Cup Brazil™ - Asian Qualifiers Round 4 - Draw
The Committee decided to take the latest FIFA/Coca Cola rankings at the time of the Draw for Round 4 as F1FA Ranking has already been implemented for Round 3."

No idea when the draw will be yet, but it'd have to be between February and June sometime. Hopefully the lads will keep winning and rising up the rankings!!

 

In the final round there is no easy path

Though going by results of the last 3 games we're second in the form table for AFC qualifying

I'd happily have us pulling off 1-0 wins in the final group phase even if we're playing shite football. Consistency is the key to success in long qualifying campaigns, and we seem to lack that

 

Well, that i didn't know. Wil ni3em la3ed. I always thought that many iraqis from all over iraq have fled to the north so they can attend the games. Plus the fact that the kurds are not doing us a favor and are promoting Arbil this way. Oh well, in the meantime we are playing abroad instead of in our country.

Amrizzle, you can find the full games on youtube. It's uploaded by someone by the name kooralraqia or something like that.

 

This is absolutely disgusting and has no place in football.

However, I'm sure this is just a minority and the rest of the fans were there to urge our team on. Still waiting for the day we can play in Baghdad regularly...

 

A game in Baghdad (or else in Iraq) needs a stable and safe country and not the wild wild west. The IFA and other people who respresent Iraq internationally feel the need to prove that iraq is safe now and is perfectly suitable for events. This is unfortunately far from reality.

Looking forward to tuesday's game. In the first game against Jordan we played well before they scored. But then we gave the space away which is deadly against such a counter-attacking team. I am sure that Zico learned from that game and will instruct them but primarily our defense have to show a good performance (not the performance that we saw against china).

 

I'd imagine Zico has learned a lot from our first encounter with Jordan.

The thing to note is, Jordan have employed the same tactics to beat teams since the Asian Cup in January. They are a very decent side, hell they were beating Japan 1-0 until extra time in that tournament.

If we're to beat them we have to take our chances and really hit them hard early before they can counter. Watching the highlights of all their goals conceded in these qualis and the Asian Cup it seems they struggle with crosses. So maybe we need to get balls in the air and punish them that way, their defenders were static trying to defend when the balls came in from the wings.

 

And i think we should utilise karrar more. The trainer has the best view over the team so i think he knows which eleven players are the most ready to start. But Karrar really adds something extra to the team so i would like to see him brought in around the 60/70th minute of the remaining games.

 

Karrar = Starter
Alaa abdulzahra was terrible today
Younis needs more help upfront
Referees are a returning problem. I am afraid this can't be fixed...

Mabrook to the Iraqi people.

 

Mabrook!

Karrar for that 3rd goal!! Unreal

He turned that defender inside ********ing out lol, quality!


Here are the goals:


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u showed the same goal twice

 

Haha, ahh shit. Will edit it.

 

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All 3 goals.

 

No doubt, will require hard work. A good set of friendly games between now and the draw won't go amiss and will help our seeding.

We're the form team in the qualifiers atm, 4 wins on the trot

 

We have got those upcoming matches against syria, bahrain and qatar; enough games to try different tactics and players.

BTW: I saw an interview with younis a few days ago and he said that zico promised them in case of advancing to the final qualifiers that there would be some strong friendlies and training camps in europe

 

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What is this man's problem?