Tasnim - Iran's coach Ali Doustimehr said that he is responsible for the disastrous performance in the AFC U-19 Championship.

Iran, who had started the campaign with a 2-1 defeat against Thailand, lost to Yemen 1-0 on Saturday.

Ahmed Al Sarori scored the only goal of the match that eliminated the four-time champion Iran from the AFC U-19 Championship at the first hurdle, following the Group
A meeting at Thuwunna Youth Training Center Stadium on Saturday.

“To focus on delivering crosses into the box was not our tactic from the start, but once we saw the whole Yemen team sat in defence, we had little choice,” Iran coach Doustimehr told the-afc.com.

“I take full responsibility, I don't want to blame anyone else, I'm not satisfied with my management in these two games and I want to apologize for that,” he added.