Was there anything that you could have done differently tonight, do you think?

think?[sighs] Yeah, we could have defended a corner better, you know? Ah.

You know, football's all about moments.

Like I say, you know, we've conceded goals tonight, but for, for lots of that game we defended really well.

You know, defended heroically at times, blocking crosses, blocking shots, defending our goal.

Um, but it was...

You know, they're a very good team.

How much benefit do you think a number of these players will gain from the 2026 World Cup with e- with an eye on future World Cups?

[laughs] I, I almost believed you.

Yeah, yeah.

No. Yeah, we- we're, we're definitely looking at it.

You know, um, we had that decision before the Egypt game of, you know, freshen it up or continuity.

Um, we went with the continuity and, and we got a, a really strong first half performance.

Um, and then we did fade a little bit.

So we, you know, you're unsure if that was what happened to us or if what Egypt did.

Um, what are you, what are you talking about with the ones who aren't getting the opportunities, and what have you seen from them that, um, I, I guess encourages you that, that they still feel part of it?

[laughs] I, I almost believed you.

Yeah, yeah.

[laughs] Yeah, we- we- we're definitely looking at it.

You know, um, we had that decision before the Egypt game of, you know, freshen it up or continuity.

Um, we went with the continuity and, and we got a, a really strong first half performance.

Um, and then we did fade a little bit.

So we...

Um, what are you, what are you talking about with the ones who aren't getting the opportunities, and what have you seen from them that, um, I, I guess encourages you that, that they still feel part of it?

[laughs] I, I almost believed you.

Yeah, yeah.

No. Yeah, we- we're, we're definitely looking at it.

You know, um, we had that decision before the Egypt game of, you know, freshen it up or continuity.

Um, we went with the continuity, and, and we got a, a really strong first half performance.

Um, and then we did fade a little bit.

So we...

Um, what are you, what are you talking about with the ones who aren't getting the opportunities, and what have you seen from them that, um, I, I guess, encourages you that, that they still feel part of it?

Do you coaches have to be mindful of making sure the players keep the main thing, the main thing, that being the team and what you're trying to do and not try to go off on a potential selfish kind of tangent and maybe push their own case forward? Do you know what I'm trying to say there due to the opportunities that can flow on? Yeah, I

understand that.

Yeah.

I mean, I think maybe some teams maybe have that issue for us.

I don't think we've got that issue at all.

You know, these guys, these guys are so tight.

Everything is team first.

So to know that the team handled a, that side of things and be the enormity of so far stadium, how much kind of confidence does that give you that, that they can now go to a smaller setting, have all that other pressure around Iran off their back and now be able to just do something pretty good against either Belgium or, or Egypt.

[instrumental music] Darren Beasley is manager of Iran's first opponents on June the 15th, New Zealand.

There's lots of rumors around that.

We, we got told really early that the game won't move.

We got drawn against Iran, that's the game.

If the game changes, we'll get told, but the location won't change.

The date, the location won't change.

Well, that is the sound of opponents of the current Iranian regime protesting here just outside Downing Street, the seat of the UK government.

We're hopeful that everything will settle in Iran in the terms that the Islamic Republic will be fully overthrown and uprooted so that democracy, secularism, and equality, and more importantly, human rights, is reestablished.