In an interview with Mehr reporter, Farzad Ashobi, referring to the championship of the Iranian national football team in the four-way tournament in Jordan, which was achieved with a three-to-one victory against the hosts and a four-to-zero victory against Qatar in the final, said: “With the high-scoring results, we won our games.” We won, but it is clear that we have to improve. Our performance in defense and attack should have a better strategic form.
About the impact of these victories in the short distance left until the Asian Nations Cup, the Iranian football veteran added: We should not fool ourselves with such championships. We definitely play against quality opponents in the Asian Nations Cup. The same diameter will definitely be much better than this.
Referring to the players present in the recent camps of the Iranian national team under the head coach of Amir Ghale Nooyi, he emphasized: I think we have a wonderful group of national players, with whom any idea can be implemented easily on the field. We don’t have a lack of players or a lack of potential, but we didn’t have a clear strategy and we wanted to advance game by game according to the performance of the opponent, which will definitely hurt in a long tournament.
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Regarding the criticism of the defense system of the Iranian national team against Jordan, Ashubi stated: We have a problem not in defense, but in the defense structure. We need to find a better team structure. In particular, we played with two strikers in both games, and this shows that we want to have the same style.
Referring to the desire of the technical staff to score as many goals as possible, he expressed his opinion about this strategy as follows: In such a system, midfielders must be excellent in the defensive phase. They must have the necessary mileage. I think when this style of play is adopted, it requires more dedication and running from all players. It is never possible to be sure that the internal gate will remain closed with this method.
At the end, in response to whether it is possible to hope for this team’s championship, Ashubi emphasized: We have an experienced team that has great abilities. I think if we look at the list of players we can be optimistic but when we look at the names of the opponents we should be afraid because they have been planning for years to get to this point.
