Preview : Iran Vs South Korea

Persopress- For the fourth time in the last four Asian Cups Iran has to play South Korea in the quarter finals. In 1996 Iran crushed Korea 6-2 in an amazing match in which Ali Daei scored 4 goals. In 2000 Iran was defeated by the Koreans 2-1 in overtime and in 2004 Iran defeated Korea in a thrilling back to back goal match which ended 3-4 with Ali Karimi's hattrick. Now in 2007 Iran and Korea meet again to continue this very coincidental tradition and to delight every soccer fan in the world. This game is key as the winner of this match will play Iraq in the Semis which are seen as the minnows of the Asian Cup finals as the other Semifinals match will be played by Japan and the winner of the Saudi Arabia - Uzbekistan match.

Whatever Ghalenoi's tactical plan is for the Asian Cup it should be unleashed in this match as this match could cost Iran a lot. Korea is coming with a lot of new and young players unlike Iran which has a fairly average aged team. Korea's coach Pim Verbeek agrees that Iran is a better team and are the favorites but states that has young Korean team has a good chance of winning this intense game. “I think that they’re right because they are an experienced team, they have a lot of foreign-based players and so far they’ve played well. But although we may not have better players, we have a very strong team and I think we will win the game tomorrow.”

It has been announced and confirmed by many news sources that this will be the formation tommorow (3-5-2) for the Iran - South Korea match.

----------------------------Roudbarian---------------------
-----------------------------Nosrati------------------------
------------------Hosseini----------Rezaei-----------------
--------------------------Nekounam-----------------------
----------------Kia----------Ando---------Madanchi------
-----------------------------Karimi------------------------
------------------Hashemian-------Khatibi-----------------

Khatibi has replaced Enayati, Nosrati and Madanchi replace Mobali and Zandi. Fereydoon Zandi is a very good player as we saw in the China match but he has not been put in his own position and has been playing Left Back under performing of what has been expected of him. Mobali did not do so well against China and that is whiy he will be replaced by Madanchi. Kazemian will probably be used as a sub and maybe Kaebi or Mobali will also be subbed in depending on what the score is and how we are playing.

The times of the Iran vs Korea game are listed below!
Sunday 22 July 2007
18.20 Local Time
Iran vs. Korea Republic at National Stadium Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

*Different Time Zones
18.20 Malaysia Time
13.50 Tehran Time
14.20 Dubai Time
12.20 CET (Berlin, Amsterdam)
11.20 London Time
06.20 AM Eastern Time
05.20 AM Central Time
03.20 AM Pacific Time
20.20 Melbourne Time

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