Preview : Iran Vs China Ideas and Formations

Persopress- Iran will be playing a very technical and speedy game as China will be playing a very solid game like they did against Malaysia. Hopefully we can use Kaebi's speed and Karimi's technique to go past China's defense and score. Solid passing will be key in a match that China will use to overcome Iran. Iran also has a physical advantage over the Chinese as they are fairly small. How we can take this golden advantage is by giving Mahdavikia good chances to cross into the box and have a tall player like Hashemian or even Enayati to head the ball. The Chinese will most likely have a fairly good amount of fans in the stadium but I doubt that would affect us as Iran has played against teams with crowded stadiums and still won. We hope that Team Melli can overcome there ideas of revenge against the 2004 semi-finals match and just play a good and hard game to win it for the fans and people of Iran!

It has been reported by Iranian news that Iran's line-up will have two changes from the game against Uzbekistan and they will be Madanchi replacing Enayati on the left flank, and Kazemian replacing Khatibi on the right flank. If this is true then we will play with this line-up:

--------------------------Roudbarian-------------------

---Mahdavikia------Hosseini------Rezaie---------Zandi-

--------------------------Nekounam--------------------

------------------Ando----------------Karimi----------

--------Kazemian------------------------------Madanchi

---------------------------Hashemian-------------------

But it has been reported by some people, who were at the last training that was held today and they said that they talked to the players and Kaebi will start instead of Kazemian. They said that Kazemian had said that he can play really well and still be benched, and Kaebi had told them that he was excited to start again this match. If this is true, then this will be how it will look like:

--------------------------Roudbarian-------------------
--------Kaebi------Hosseini------Rezaie---------Zandi-
--------------------------Nekounam--------------------
------------------Ando-----------------Karimi----------
--------Mahdavikia-----------------------------Madanchi
---------------------------Hashemian-------------------

I think we will go with the second line-up because this will allow Ghalenoei to bring in Kazemian in the 2nd half again, and he can bring a lot of energy and get past the tired defenders.

Iran vs China game will be shown on Tapesh , Jame-Jam International ( Persian Soccer Channel) and, IRIB.

The Times for the match Iran vs China Asian Cup 2nd group stage matches are stated below:

Local Malaysia time 18.20
Tehran Time 13.50
Eastern Time 6.20
Pacific Time 3.20
London Time 11.20
Berlin / Amsterdam 12.20
Melbourne Time 20.20