PBP Thread: Match #20, Iran vs Spain, 20 June 2018 [R]

Iran will be dead by the 65th minute is the continue to defend like this

 

Even goalkeeper knows how to dive

 

generally, the opposite happens: defensive teams generally cannot keep bunkering and get tired in the last quarter and concede.

 

Just wait and see. Remember in this type of game, the clock is running against the team that has most of the ball and is expected to win.

 

You just summed up his entire career.

 

Yep. But we'll see. Personally, I have Spain winning this puppy 2-0, but it's not going to be easy.

 

What is this time wasting? Iranian players are using anti football to kill the momentum. This is hard to watch.

 

Anyone who's watched Iran knows they concede the ball and look outmatched most of the time. But it's strategy, they can sting.

 

Spain will need something special. Maybe a deflection for a goal.

 

Spain usually ends this games 1:0

 

This is hard to watch...totally anti-soccer...We only have 24 teams now...Just imagine we'll have 48 teams later WC and there'll be lots of games like this...

 

HT: 0-0.

 

Iranian right winger is out of gas. Spain should attack from there.

 

Lowering my expectations to a 1-0 Spain win, at this point. They're tighter than a gnat's butt.

 

It's not that different from the way we ground some of our better historical results, TBH.

 

Love some of the messages here. Spain that has two of the dirtiest players game has ever seen (Ramos and Costa) and people are complaining about Iran serving the same medicine.

This is defensive mastery and very interesting to watch.

 

Iran with some killer bus parking. And you guys thought Morocco looked bad against them?

 

Parking the bus: the game. Zero offense, 11 players defending. In the few seconds Iran somehow end up with the ball, it's always a mindless long ball forward and... back to the spaniards. Ugly, ugly "football".

This can't work for the whole 90 minutes, right? ...right?

 

To defend Iranians, its Spain in front, with the possession style we know of them.
I think Iran’s defending is as much because they just don’t succeed to take the ball as a real strategy.

 

This kind of match is just driving non soccer fans away...

 

Sadly, it might work...

 

*yawn*

How many USA players can I watch at this WC?
Zero

 

Well, this is interesting