To me, since its in Bahrain, It will be very unpredictable. Iran are great starters in tournaments, Bahrain in their own tirf. Something will break
oh well the game is started... both teams are playing it safe at the start... zandi is playing from the beginning... let's see if he can be useful (if he can he is a genius considering he only had like couple of practice sessions with NT)...
From the eurosport website: "Horrendous, cynical challenge, but the Bahrain defender avoids a booking. Promising free kick for Iran, but Mahdavikia rages at the lack of a yellow card!"
Karimi's motor is heating up... Bahrainis getting more physical.. foul on zandi.. mahddavikia taking the free kick... corner for Iran.. again mahdavikia.. header from zandi.. he's offside..
Mahdavikia missed a chance (nice shot though!!?)…OMFG Mirzapour nearly screwed us.. very lucky the ball went behind him luckily parallel to the goal..
beautiful shot from nekounam... Bahrain goalkeeper was plain lucky hat it wasn't on goal.. nice long range at least 35 meters...
Very Ugly game, both team have few chances, Bahrain had the clearest one, the goalie was beating and the bahrani player have to touch the ball, but he didnt, other than that the game suck big time
end of first half.. goalless draw... ------------------------ Mirza -------------------------- Kaabi-----------Golmo ---------- Rezai --------- Nosrati ------------Nekounam----------------Zandi--------- Mahdavikia-----------------Karimi------------Hashemian ------------------------------Daei----------------------- Iran is having problems with the deep defense.. every time we get the ball there are at least 2 defenders around our player.. It’s too soon for Zandi to play so I think he will be replaced in the second half.. that would help a lot.. there is a nice position change going on between Karimi, Mahdavikia and Hashemian… lets hope it pays off in the second half…
Very boring first half, but we at least dodged a bullet in the first half. Very conservative game by both teams, and Bahrain is getting away with more from the Malasyan ref. Hope second half is different and Iran scores. Did you guys watch the dangerous shot by Nekonam?
that was like unstoppable... he does that once in a while.. lets hope we'll see more of that in the second half.. I hope you guys agree with me that Zandi should go off.. he needs more practice to match up with others..
I wish Bahrain was playing like how Kuwait played against Korea… but we just have to wait and see what our coach’s plans for the next half…