Team Melli team striker says he and his teammates should be highly focused against Cambodia to earn 3 points. Sardar Azmoun added, “It might not be a difficult game for us, but we should not lose concentration because three points are vitally important for us.”

“Bahrain and Iraq tied their match, that was a good result for us, and we have to play this one with great focus in an offensive game to get all the three points, it is important for us not to be complacent.

Zenit St Petersburg’s forward commented on the eagerness of the forward line to play an offensive game and the praise bestowed on him by Ali Daei, “That the expectations are quite high is both bad and good in some ways. It raises my confidence when people talk about me and express their admiration”

He continued: “Ali Daei is my role model and I always have respect for him. Now I have healthy competition and Ali Daei has records that I dream to achieve with great motivation to reach them. I am glad that Mr Daei and MahdaviKia encouraged me and had some good words about me. These two are the greats of Asia, and Mr Daei is the world’s top scorer and we have to make a statue of gold of him. If he had been born elsewhere he would have been respected much more than this.”