Review Of 2022 World Cup, Wales Vs Iran: Life And Death Match Team Melli

Water player Mehdi Taremi (Twitter @prznsoccer)

JAKARTA - Iran was destroyed during the first match of the 2022 World Cup, but drawing a lesson from Saudi Arabia's regional political rivals, perhaps at this time, is the most appropriate to do so that it can continue to revive hope of breaking through the knockout round for the first time.

Iran will face Wales in their second match in Group A which takes place Friday afternoon at 17.00 WIB at the Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium.

This is a life-and-death match for Iran which was slaughtered by England 2-6 in the first match. A fate that contrasts once with Saudi Arabia which actually overthrows one of the world's football powers, Argentina, with 1-2.

Therefore, Saudi and Japanese victory over Germany in the same score should trigger Iran, all of which are from Asia, to create the same thing.

But Wales also didn't want to be missed. After only a 1-1 draw thanks to Gareth Bale's last-minute goal, Wales had to beat Iran to make it safer for the knockout round.

This result cannot be separated from the tactical changes taken by coach Rob Page in the first half when he included Kieffer Moore who changed the pendulum of the match.

Page admits he has learned from the match against the US. "It's important for us not to lose," he said as quoted by Antara from Reuters.

He can now draw the conclusion that his squad's strength is relatively evenly even so that substitutes like Moore can change the direction of the match. And that raised him.

Now, Wales will be tested by Iran where coach Carlos Queiroz his players will soon rise from the crushing defeat they suffered against England.

Before this match Wales had faced Iran once in a 1978 friendly and at that time they won 1-0.

Carlos Queiroz knows it's old statistics so it won't affect his belief that Iran will rise. But he had to wait for main goalkeeper Alireza Bairanvand to return to fitness after being substituted at the start of the match against England after a nose injury due to colliding with Hosseini Majid's co-workers.

The absence of Bairanvand made Britain present a goal rain in Iran's goal, and this is clearly no longer want to be repeated by Queiroz.

Iran is also dealing with problems off the pitch after their supporters accused the squad of taking sides with the country's crackdown on the unrest in Iran which has killed more than 400 people.

Even though the players chose not to sing their national anthem before the match against England as a form of support for the demonstration against violence in their country.

Predictions of the first eleven players

Wales (3-4-3): Wayne Hennessey; Chris Mepham, John Rodon, Ben Davies; stripes Roberts, Aaron Ramsey, Ethan Ampadu, Neco Williams; Gareth Bale; Kieffer Moore, Harry Wilson.

Iran (5-4-1): Hossein Hosseini; Sadegh Moharrami, Mortza Pouraliganji, Runuzbeh Cheshmi, Majid Hosseini, Milad Mohammadi; Alireza Sajarbakhsh, Ahmad Noorollahi, Ali Karimi, Ali Gholizadeh; Mehdi Taremi.

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Important statistics of both teams

Wales beat Iran 1-0 in the only meeting of the two teams that took place in a friendly match in 1978 where Phil Dwyer scored the winner.

Wales tried to repeat 1958's achievements, which was his last appearance at the World Cup, qualifying for the knockout round.

No Walesman was able to compete with Gareth Bale in the number of goals scored during the major tournament. Bale scored his fourth goal in a major tournament against the United States in the group opener.

Iran collapsed at the bottom of the standings after being slaughtered 2-6 by England in their group opener.

Despite being frequent in the World Cup finals, Iran has never been able to get past the group stage and has won only one of its last 11 matches in the World Cup, which was when they won 1-0 over Morocco four years ago.