Iran vs. Maldives - Full Highlights, 1st Leg [ WCQ - 2014 ]

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Written by Martin Reza Babry

PFDC - TEHRAN, Iran scored a comfortable 4-0 win over a helpless Maldives in the first leg of AFC World Cup qualification round 2, but could have scored another dozen had they been more concentrated in front of goal.

The Maldives held on to a good result with luck and permanent grass rolling and obviously will pose no threat in the return leg on in Male on Thursday.

Iran, again starting in a 4-3-3 formation, took an early lead through Karim Ansarifard who tapped the ball in from close range after a Mohammad-Reza Khalatbari cross from the left.

Carlos Queiroz' men had a half dozen further excellent scoring opportunities still before the break, but were too sloppy in front of goal.

Iran increased tempo and pressure in second half and the visitors soon got exhausted and were lucky not to suffer a thrashing like the legendary 0-17 in 1997.

The homeside, meanwhile playing a 4-2-4, launched wave after wave of attacks on the Maldives goal and in several periods create chances in minute cycles.

Ansarifard doubled the lead when he got his foot to an attempted clearance after a Hadi Aghily cross and the ball just crossed the line before a defender could hit the ball away (62').

In minute 68, skipper Ali Karimi scored Iran's third, when he headed home a corner kick from the superb Khalatbari.

Substitute striker Saeid Daghighi added a very much overdue fourth goal when he got to the end of the very convincing Khosro Heydari's serving from the right at the far post, four minutes from time.

Should Iran take the return leg seriously and improve their effectiveness, Iranian fans could experience a real goal festival.

Iran - Maldives 4-0 (1-0)
2014 World Cup qualification Round 2, Tehran, Azadi stadium

Goals:
1-0 Karim Ansarifard (4' / assist by Mohammad-Reza Khalatbari)
2-0 Karim Ansarifard (62' / Hadi Aghily)
3-0 Ali Karimi (68' / Mohammad-Reza Khalatbari)
4-0 Saeid Daghighi (86' / Khosro Heydari)

Iran: Rahmati - K. Heydari, Hosseini, Aghily, Pouladi (62' Hajsafi) - Karimi, M. Zare (61' Ghazi), Hadadifar - H. Norouzi (82' Daghighi), Ansarifard, Khalatbari

Iranian players booked: Ansarifard, Zare, Karimi

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• 1st Leg [ WCQ - 2014 ]

[mentalist1979]

@Arrygoo ronaldinho kie? khalatbari sarvare harchi ronaldo!

[AvazFreedom]

Japan, South Korea, Australia, Jordan, Syria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, China, Uzbekistan, and Iraq are all worthy opponents for Iran in Asia. I think we will get better as time goes. I like our style. I think Reza Norouzi, Arash Borhani or Farhad Majidi can help us score more goals

[shariotoflove]

@ahmedcyad see you couldnt reply so you brought up Israel and USA. lol! Israel and USA only dream of bombing Iran, whereas in reality Iran and its allies, Russia and China, will not allow it to happen...how they do that ill leave to your imagination. regardless of your charade, Iran still has a considerably better team and military than yours'. hahahaha cunt

[ahmedcyad]

@shariotoflove haaahahah we will seee if u have a better team when israel and USA bomb u ... hahhahahha loooosers!!!

[shariotoflove]

@ahmedcyad Iran has a better team than yours and are more likely to qualify than yours. and you say were shit? hahahaha

[setnogh]

چقدر موقعیت از دست رفت اگر به درستی استفاده می شد ایران 30 - مالدیو 0

[withTEHRAN]

7:17 Damesh garm, BAazi vaghta be Footballe iran eftekhar mikonam!

[2009xellos]

@ahmedcyad Don't you know, 4 to 5 teams in Asia can qualify for World Cup, I'm sure Iran will definitely be one of them this time. They did in 2006, couldn't do it in 2010, because us Korea Republic was on the way.

Sorry about that, Iran. We bid good luck to you this time.

[jagdiggarstoratuttar]

@ahmedcyad what do you expect iran to do when maldives is such an anti-football team. they wasted 30 minutes dropping like flies, they couldnt play football to save their fucking lives. in maldives they played dirty, well at least im glad our players were rough on ali ASSFAG rofl

he deserved it though

iran was playing poorly second leg, but hey at least we won both games and qualified to next round. all you can do now is talk to satisfy your hurt ego silly fucking indian LOL

[ahmedcyad]

@nimrooo we are very sad cox your shitty country couldnt score 17 goals like couple of years ago! so i am very shit sad! now keeep yo dreams at a certain point and dont think u can even go to semifinal in this or next world cup! money back guranteed!

[nimrooo]

@ahmedcyad

So I should accept that Iran is shit b/c we couldn't score more against you guys in your home. Why I'll be glad to do that my stupid youtube friend. By that logic you're worse than shit no??? How does it feel to be beaten by a shitty country? AGAIN!!!

lmao

stupid hindu

[ahmedcyad]

@nimrooo jus accept you are piece of shit who couldnt score more than one goal in our home! lol what kind of futbol u play by atttacking our forward? jus try to play nicely