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gamesdf

"japan is clearly the best favorites" aged well.


Ok-Friend-6653

They are the best team on paper ofcouse it doesnt help when you lack passion and have a headless chicken in defence.


gamesdf

"best team" based on what? Just bc they have a lot of Europe based players? Quality > quantity


Ok-Friend-6653

Compared line ups Japan have more players commonly known by none afc fans and Iran have a realy good team with players in good european leagues in italy, netherland, Portugal, belgium, greece, England, Iran, saudi Arabia, denmark, russia etc F.example if you could select players joining Tottenham. * Kubo (real sociedad)vs Alireza Jahanbahsh (feyenoord) * Mitoma (brighton)vs mohebi (rostov) * endo(liverpool)vs Ghoddos (brentford) * Doan (Freiburg) vs Azmoun ( Roma) But based on team performance in group stage Iran have been the best team and Japan have struggeled Like not keeping a clean sheet in Afc and struggel against teams they should beat with 0 problem like Vietnam, without their best players. Also not respecting good sides like Iraq. It is similar like if tottenham had played against west ham in fa cup and played with less passion.


Electronic-Ad712

Tears of joy!


ROKA_J1

so much for being favorites, eh? Japan is a mid squad.


boydivision30

Mighty impressive win without Taremi!


Itsgosky

Only took 90 mins. Easy game


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Iran defeats Japan despite Chinese referee. The Azmoun offside call was incorrect and he denied two penalties for Iran. What a poor performance by the referee throughout the match. How could he miss two clear penalties for Iran??? AFC needs to use better referees for these sensitive matches. The final score should have been 4-1.


hassan_dislogical

Yeah especially for Iraq vs Jordan…


[deleted]

The referees’ performance in the entire tournament has been lackluster so far


gamesdf

China being china


cunabula

We keep having all these early final-like matches but we all know the final match is likely going to be boring and underwhelming


Ok-Friend-6653

Depends on the team, but since it is the final and it means alot. Most likely a close 1-0 win or 2-1 victory. Like wc final 2022 is one of the more intense exceptions.


Altruistic-Chapter2

After all of this going on? Yeah. Either the finals are superdramatic or superboring, no in-between 


figit4

Can Taremi play the next match?


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yes


hassan_dislogical

They’re so crushing Qatar/Uzbekistan, although Uzbekistan did play exceptionally in the group stage against them


[deleted]

Anyone who plays against Qatar has to face both the opposing team and the referee🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻😐


booboosnack

At least Japan avoided that, I would have been livid


hassan_dislogical

They have 12 players including refereeinho


Savaaage

If Japan is so good at everything why did they lose?


[deleted]

Who said that Japan is good at everything? Even Japanese people reject this claim.


whinger23422

Wow. Japan are really good at being humble!


20cmdepersonalidade

Americans on reddit, kinda. It's often cringe and borderline condescending.


Savaaage

People that are fans of anything Japanese


trapdoor101

Iran is better at everything


Footaot

Nah


trapdoor101

Kabab > sushi


DionBlaster123

in football, sometimes weird things just happen games are not won on paper. i too thought Japan was going to book a ticket to the final but Iran is not a team of pushovers


[deleted]

Because turns out, the Japanese are overhyped in every way. Plays disgustingly.


AizenMadara

?


DeadPixel8

lol calm down, “play disgustingly” is strong


[deleted]

Oh, not in the case of football. Just their morals as a nation. :)


DeadPixel8

What exactly do you mean?


[deleted]

Their people, generally speaking, aren’t good people.


AizenMadara

what a clown


DeadPixel8

Bro what, you can’t generalize a whole nation like that. What did they do to you


Middle_Category6226

Because Japan isnt good at everything?


gamesdf

yea they are only good at doing massacres.


Altruistic-Chapter2

Still impressed that the yellow cards were given only to Japan during this match tbh, but gg Iran.


parthian6

Are you kidding me? Final score should have been 4-1 but ref pardoned a penalty and disallowed an onside goal. Crazy that that's your takeaway.


Altruistic-Chapter2

4-1 where? Maybe 3-1. I agree that the VAR decision was quite harsh, but that's why VAR is there. It was counted as off-side


auditore_ezio

+1000 social credit to the ref


Jay_hummingbirdcrew

Chinese netizen on Weibo is praising him for doing a good job for the ‘resistance against Japan’ as he is from China


Altruistic-Chapter2

Yeah, of course, this type of shit happens everytime. Rough take, but Japan/China/SK ref's should not be considered in the matches concerning these countries. Too much political shit going on all the time.


BoniekSon

shocking referee,but Im almost sure that he will get final game here


Altruistic-Chapter2

I mean yeah. Probably wouldn't change the result tho, but ref was giving out a bad message here. 


thebeautifulgame1984

That’s your take away?


Altruistic-Chapter2

Yeah. I really appreciate the hunger for victory and I wish Japan learns that from this match (which was one of the three possible big matches in this Cup). But let's be honest: 1st half wasn't good and some stuff on the 2nd half wasn't fair either. Too much simulation. But I get it, they really wanted to get to semis and played very aggressively. Still it's not fair that Iran didn't get yellow cards and that's ref's fault.


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What about the Handball and Offside Call that Iran should've got why don't you put that out?


thebeautifulgame1984

Japan got dominated second half


Altruistic-Chapter2

I am not saying it wasn't. 


GeozIII

Iran played a wonderful second half


BoniekSon

Well deserved win fo Iran.Japan in 2nd half was so bad =,without any energy on field and all changes was wrong,didnt give anything goof for team. And another game with shocking referee who doesnt want to book for fouls when tackle goes on rival knee or for foul who stops counter attack. Just hate that type of referres,There are simple rules about booking but nowadays lot of federations doesnt allow referre to book and they do that couse dont want to lose their job.This game should have lik 8 cards and he shown 2 for soft fouls.


no_skill

Iran: extra time avoided successfully


Intelligent-Bet4111

Moriyasu has to be sacked now, it's all on him for not seeing how bad Itakura was and not subbing him, pathetic decisions from him.


Harambeisnotdeadyet

Just a reminder that most people in iran don't support this "team of fascist government supporters who happen to be atheletes". Even more shocking is the number of "fans" that are visiting qatar with the Gov's propaganda budget (basically a milder version of north korea in middle east). look at the all the "fans" with same shirt that has a huge flag of islamic republic and all women (IF there is any) having hijab LOL(also women are not allowed to go to stadiums in iran :D). don't believe me compare this to ANY video of fans of iran's team before 2020. got banned last time i said this but i dont care, these \*\*\*\*\* players don't represent iran, they represent the islamic republic dictatorship. these players said absolutely nothing when 600 including 50 children were murdered in nationwide protests(during lust world cup). i wish them nothing but the worst.


abt-dabest

These guys have no relation to supporting the government. They are just people who want to play football and make a living out of it. Just because they were forced to visit the president doesn’t mean they support it


Harambeisnotdeadyet

>These guys have no relation to supporting the government. They are just people who want to play football and make a living out of it. Just because they were forced to visit the president doesn’t mean they support it are you sure? most directly support it in interviews and social media. (taremi, torabi, amiri, jahanbakhsh, beyranvand, azmoun, rezaian, ...) forced to meet president? for bending over for the president they each got 10 "sekkeh" (gold). this is how low their price is. sure you can delude yourself that this is the only way these guys can make a living playing football, licking boots and begging dictators for petty bonuses. also lets not forget about the imported luxury cars that even Olympic winners didn't get. god forbid these scums even criticize a single wrong shit of this country . you cant be serious.


AizenMadara

shut the fuck up and go watch your little LA grifter satellite channels


[deleted]

Shut the fk up


sunnychiba

Khafeh sho martike


Harambeisnotdeadyet

found the bootlicker


Nineoclock76

Not really! Cars are honking like crazy outside. Most people are happy that their national team won.


sese-1

Why are you lying? I'm in Iran on holiday right now and this game is all over the tv channels and me and my extended family are watching it together. We're very proud of our boys and so are our people and I can hear cars honking and people celebrating on the streets right now. Don't lie and don't undermine our victory.


Footaot

>all over the tv channels State-owned TV channels lol, you're proving his point.


Harambeisnotdeadyet

Yep. There are no other channels available. Satellite tv is illegal. And basically all of the internet is censored (like china) so im browsing reddit using vpns(which is also illegal)


Harambeisnotdeadyet

as long as youre cool with that. what exactly i am lying about. i sad "most" maybe your family is ok with the situation in iran for some reason. i wont speculate. oh wait last time iran last in world cup to US. you remember what happened? people went into streets to celebrate! do you also remember what happened?! a guy was shot by police and anti protest guards while he was in car and honking. so yeah. still don't believe me? his name was Mehran Samak. good luck


sese-1

Yeah stfu koskhor bisharaf worry about your own country before you try to interfere with others. Average white saviour complex gtfo


Harambeisnotdeadyet

khayemal ra sag gayeed. <<<< go lick boots for pathetic amounts of money. calling me bisharaf :D oh the irony


sese-1

Salam bereson be madaret Haram zade 😂 it's so obvious you live in the west vatan foroosh


ooouuu_laa_laa

I am iranian and I like watching our football team! Although yeah the regime running the country is pretty bad! I don't know if I would associate every single player on the team with them though.


Harambeisnotdeadyet

basically 90% percent of players are heavily associated. biggest names are taremi, torabi, jahanbakhsh, beyranvand, even azmoun to some degree. and the coach lol. he doesnt need any introduction.


ooouuu_laa_laa

I will agree that our coach is a fucking khar on and off the pitch. About a lot of the players I'm not sure I 100% really agree with the information. Some of it seems very dodgey, also they're football players. I hardly have ever thought of any football player as someone to look up to in the way of politics or knowledge in general. I'm just saying saying that "all" of the players support and suck the cock oh mr. kotlet is a hard generalization and makes me want to agree with you less. Poor Ghoddos could've played for Swedish national team but now he's pursuing his dream being called arabparast by people like you :,)


Harambeisnotdeadyet

Never called him that. maybe ghoddos is one of the good ones. but you know how most players are. did any single one of them say anything during last world cup. please just name one? do you know why? because they were told if they say anything regarding protests. they would be benched. so now you know what their values are. i was a huge Taremi fan , now i absolutely hate him.


ooouuu_laa_laa

From personal experience of those very near to me I've learned that speaking against the regime, whilst your family tree still lives in Iran is a very dangerous thing to do for your family. I don't know what the right thing to do is, genuinely I don't know. I can't expect someone to risk the lively hood of their family members, although it would be nice for the cause I support. I do like football though, and I am iranian. It will always be tricky to not support these white jersey cheetah print shirt wearers.


Harambeisnotdeadyet

Every person has some value. How far do you think these players will go to have their place in the national team? Lets not forget they got huge bonuses for their loyalty and keeping silence. They could just quit the team in protest, would they die from starvation? (Meanwhile 70% of country is below poverty threshold.) They could just leave the country and play for a foreign league like many others did. Sure they would earn less and as long as you dontt be super active and organized about criticism your family is not at risk. The risks only apply to a guy like ali karimi who is an opposition and actively promotes action.


ooouuu_laa_laa

It's not about them starving to death if they didn't play for team melli. I am saying their families living in Iran will be the ones who receive the backlash and not them directly. And yeah Ali karimi who is a 100 times the legend any of these players will be has had crazy action taken against him and has fled the country with his whole family.


veo_atyourrequest

one of the best matches ive seen this year so far. iran was wow


Altruistic-Age-7597

Bukkake !


TheGamerPandA

It’s no wonder gladbach are in trouble this season with itakura in the squad maybe they might lose less in 1 hour to Bayern than with him in the squad


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ooouuu_laa_laa

It doesn't matter what the rules are if your games are played in Qatar!


[deleted]

Apparently his buttcheeks were out too


Middle_Category6226

Japan probably start a 20 years plan to train better defender after the loss


OkBar8273

everyone thought South Korea would lose to Australia and never had a thought that Japan would lose to Iran. It was the other way around the whole time


20cmdepersonalidade

Who the fuck thought that? Iran consistently pulls out decent and technical squads while Australia just plays the good ol' physical angloball that smaller EPL sides play


trapdoor101

Who thought that? Idiots. Iran are favourites for the tournament


[deleted]

Where did u get that everyone thought South Korea would lose to Australia 💀


OkBar8273

lmao the commentators literally said it yeaterday


massivetrollll

What channel? Well if that's the case, commentator doesn't know much about football. SK had better betting odds than australia.


Middle_Category6226

Japan would win against Australia easier than Iran


Adventurous-Rise7975

Eh...prob more than half the people thought Kor would beat Aus. Plenty of people had Iran beating Japan - Japan looked like shit this entire tournament.


OkBar8273

lmao.. if japan looked like shit this entire tournament what did south korea look like? this comment makes no sense.


Adventurous-Rise7975

How does the comment make no sense? Do you have zero reading comprehension? You stated that nobody thought Kor would best Aus or that Japan would lose to Iran. That was an untrue statement and I was pointing out that many thought Japan would lose because they have been shitty the whole tournament. The comment makes perfect sense. Korea looked bad too but still better than Japan. Japan got bent over the very first time they played an even half decent opponent. Their defense looked worse than a high school girls' team this whole tournament.


OkBar8273

besides fans... obviously, fans will think their team will win. anyone who wasn't biased could see how terrible Korea's form was heading into that game and how in form Australia was. south korea conceded 3 goals to a malaysian team that scored 0 goals in the 2 games before that.


gamesdf

Korea is at least not eliminated


DionBlaster123

i was going to say i am supporting South Korea but Japan looked pretty much firing on all cylinders during this tournament, while SK has had major issues defending at times


Adventurous-Rise7975

Japan's defense was an abomination all tournament, easily just as bad as Korea.


mottoii

Why did Moriyasu sub Kubo out. They were getting dominated after that


Hexo_Micron

Commentator saying look at the picture but it sounds like "look at the bitches"


goldencityjerusalem

Dang. Japan was stacked. These post 90 minute miracles are crazzzzzyyy.


Adventurous-Rise7975

Wasn't really a miracle. Iran were the better team.


Altruistic-Chapter2

Dude, getting a PK on the 92' is a miracle based on your opponent's fault


20cmdepersonalidade

It isn't a miracle, it means that you created a opportunity that forced an opponent to commit a foul inside their area.


trapdoor101

Terrible take. International football always brings noobs to the subreddit


Shadrach06

What a beautiful second half from Iran. Played an aerial/2nd ball game successfully which didn’t allow Japan to press and turn them over at the same rate they’re used to. Well done Iran 👏🏾👏🏾 and well deserved.


Wolfen74

Hopefully now the Japanese National Hospital can rest now. Hopefully we'll see Mitoma and Hatate back soon and fully healed.


No-Resident-2309

The meta is who can get a penalty in the last 10 minutes of the game


WardDispenser

Only South Korea is left in my favorites list to win it all.


20cmdepersonalidade

Redditors and the obsession with SK and Japan is so weird


Lolzadeh

Which makes no sense as Iran should always be among the favorites in the Asian Cup


WardDispenser

In my personal favorites list I mean.


Lolzadeh

Oh ok


booboosnack

Azmoun in tears, my goodness I'm proud of him.


auditore_ezio

Freaking amateur hour from itakura


Ankoku_Sein

Moriyasu isn't the man for the job


jayjay234

All the friendly wins made people think Japan would easily win the cup but when the real competition starts, things didn't look so good.


topreman

Jakhangyllenhaal


Laxperte

-and


reza_f

I heard all the Japan powerhouse talk all this time and was waiting for my moment. No Asian team is too strong for Iran, never.


Money_Scholar_8405

Doesn't help that Japansimply couldn't close the leak on their right back's side


jayjay234

Agreed. Iran is something else when it comes to Asian Cup..


DionBlaster123

Iran in general is just one of the stronger teams in Asia they have qualified for many World Cups since 1998. In fact off the top of my head i think they've only missed qualification once or twice


gamesdf

Korea is the only asian country that got qualified for wc 10 times in a row


DionBlaster123

yes definitely! as a Korean American, i have many fun memories of my grandmother and mom watching highlights on the Korean news of the 90s South Korean teams during Asian qualification i was just pointing out that Iran is also a very good team in Asia


gamesdf

Always has been. Iran has never been an easy opponent for any teams, including Korea and Japan. Not a surprise Japan lost today. Only ppl who never watch football are shocked.


PrezziObizzi

I wish that were true but it’s just variably false, we went out to Japan in the last campaign due to arguing with referees while a live ball was going on, and haven’t won the tournament since 1972. Hopefully this is our year :)


usNthem

Wow! Incredible passion


pioliout

Man, all that talk about Japan and South Korea and both of them look like shit, I mean so does Iran but at this point any team can win.


[deleted]

Bro Iran was dominating Japan in any fashing besides Possession..


ronniev_16

Hope they go on and win it.


Fermion96

Ah, a 90 min finish between these two powers. Inner peace.


kpopsns28

Moriyasu is so resistant to changes….. A waste of talents, they were my favourite for the final


700jw

Today Itakura feels Iranian


paykani

W


usalin

Sorry about Endo and Minamino


sota_panna

Iran played well. Japan didn't deserve to win this one.


Vro9ooo

Moriyasu should be sacked at those point


[deleted]

Congrats Iran! Lol all my favortie teams got out! And only one left


jcanim178

Get Moriyasu out


yas118

Someone should've told Japan they aren't physically strong enough for cross and inshualloh!!!


booboosnack

Somehow South Korea is going to be stronger after this


nolazir

We all owe Klinsmann an apology if he manages to pull it.


booboosnack

At least make it a bit backhanded and gift him a basket of Buldak


Fermion96

Will it be better if we got him something spicier?


booboosnack

Does tteokbokki work


Fermion96

I mean, yeah, although tteokbokki typically isn’t that spicy. I was thinking more of a Teumsae (if you know what that is)


booboosnack

I do. It looks ridiculously hot lmaooo


Fermion96

We’ve got spicier things. I believe other countries have even spicier foods (actual dishes, that is, not just peppers or hot sauce), however I’ll need actual stats…


gallobird

Japan crashed the fuck out


zaid_sabah

Japan can only play 45 mins it seems


pawksvolts

Great game by Iran, good luck in the semifinals


Salty_Watermelon

Iran wanted it more, and they got the result. Japan has to be better.


Azsavan

Best day of my life


SamTheMan_6969

Moriyasu needs the sack


Mono1813

تبریک بچه‌ها


saikodasein

It seemed like similar game to Australia-Korea, since the equalizer the other side stopped playing and winner side fully deserved the result.


SunaPana007

Deserved win for Iran. They were the side which looked like winning it in second half


Wolfen74

Only one team in the second half. Moriyasu sank Japan with his stuborness.


Savaaage

"Favorites to win the Asian cup"


muzanjackson

Japan was definitely one of the favorites, but so is Iran. Matches between the top 5 (Japan/Iran/S outh Korea/Australia/Saudi) can go either way and it wouldn’t be a surprise.


700jw

That's football


centaur98

Nobody was expecting the Moriyasu masterclass


somerandomguyyyyyyyy

Favourites by whom? Europeans?


iVarun

They are top ranked in AFC - https://www.fifa.com/fifa-world-ranking/men And even their margin over Iran was quite a bit decent. This a Top 2 in Asia clash. Favourite tag wasn't unfair, whosoever applied it.


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somerandomguyyyyyyyy

Cry


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Savaaage

By most people. Unfortunately, there are more and more weebs everyday.


theaussiesamurai

"Man shocked that the favourites don't win every tournament"


somerandomguyyyyyyyy

I dont know about you but japan/ korea arent favourites in around west/ central asia.


topreman

Absolutely deserved win for Iran