(IranSportsPress.com) | The Guardian - Against Bosnia, a coach whose side have concentrated on defense will have to do more if they are to make the last 16 Only two sides in this World Cup went longer before conceding their first goal than Iran – and when that goal was scored it was a brilliant
(IranSportsPress.com) | ABC AU - The 2014 World Cup is heading into the final group games before the knock-out rounds in one of its most intriguing stages. The top two sides in each of the eight groups progress to the round of 16 as the tournament enters the first of its sudden-death knockout rounds. Where
(IranSportsPress.com) | Mail Online - World Cup Group F could be decided by picking names out of a hat or a coin toss – if Iran and Nigeria finish level behind Argentina. Ahead of the final round of group stage games, 1-0 wins for Argentina against Nigeria and for Iran against Bosnia would leave the
(IranSportsPress.com) | The Daily Star - Ashkan Dejagah is desperate for another World Cup super show - so he can stay in the Premier League. The Fulham attacker was seconds away from helping Iran stun Argentina on Saturday in Belo Horizonte, before Lionel Messi’s late winner. It was a performance which put the 27-year-old in the
(IranSportsPress.com) | CNN — Lionel Messi waited until injury time to break Iranian hearts Saturday and give Argentina a scarcely deserved 1-0 victory in Belo Horizonte in a Group F clash. Iran had come close to pulling off a major upset with a series of second half chances until Messi found space just outside the
Belo Horizonte, Brazil - Lionel Messi scored an injury-time goal that gave Argentina a by-then-unexpected win over Iran, but he only found the net after another lacklustre performance. “When you have Messi, anything is possible,” Argentina coach Alejandro Sabella said after the game. While the goal appears to support that view, it is a fact
(AP) — Iran coach Carlos Queiroz questioned how the referee in Saturday’s 1-0 World Cup loss to Argentina will be able to sleep at night after ignoring claims for a penalty. Referee Milorad Mazic didn’t point to the spot when Argentina right back Pablo Zabaleta challenged Ashkan Dejagah in the second half as the midfielder
(soccerway) -Iran coach Carlos Queiroz slammed the failure to award his side a penalty in their 1-0 FIFA World Cup defeat to Argentina. Queiroz’s men looked to be on their way to famous draw at Estadio Mineirao in Belo Horizonte on Saturday after keeping Argentina at bay for 90 minutes. But Iran’s hearts were broken
(theguardian) - What a World Cup this is turning out to be. Even a snatched 1-0 win can have a ring of something quietly sensational about it. In Belo Horizonte Iran produced a stirring performance against an Argentina team of all the attacking talents, at first defending like trench-bound soldiers then coming out in the
(London Evening Standard) - The arch-realist in Carlos Queiroz refused to downplay the scale of the task. The Iran coach was never going to try the usual manager trick of talking about it as just another game. Quite the opposite. “Our match with Argentina will be the most important and biggest in Iran’s history,” Queiroz