Probably worse. There's an element of determination and overdrive when superior opponents are involved. Absent that factor, Iran (historically) plays pretty lame football.
Under CQ it has become organized lame football with insane insistence on not conceding. It gets results, but holy crap it's hard to watch.
So you mean they have no determination to win the cup after 44 years?
You are saying they are going to park the bus against the Asian teams and play lame football.
I don't think we have the ability to go and beat every team in Asia with three goal margin and dominate them all.
That has a lot to do with our preparations, development and investment and a lot to do with how good our opponents are against us, but we won't be playing not to get beat, we'll be playing to win.
There are no guarantees that we will, but if they think like you they will definitely lose! 😍