We have all heard this cliche and it was most obvious in Iran's game today. The first game of the tournament has turned out to be most challenging for all contenders so far, as scores suggest. In case of Iran, all that nervous energy was magnified by an own goal at the beginning of the game, and it surly rattled our team in the first half as we went down to the opponent. Such psychological let-down put our players in a difficult situation that they forgot to play their own game in the first half until they went into the locker room and heard what our coach had to say. With few changes and a sub, our players approached the second half with a new attitude, or better said, the attitude that we had expected of them and sure enough we equalized the game in no time and continued our dominance in the second half until we scored the second and winning goal. Overall, we grabbed the three points in a very crucial match in the second half of the game and in the process learnt a lot more about what a coach can do in the second half. In contrast to the past years in which we had always lost the game in the second half, both at the WC06 and other Asian games. But now, we have a coach who is a 2nd half coach, and that's a great thing because football is to be played for 90 minutes.
GO IRAN :Iran1:
GO IRAN :Iran1: