The national teams of Iran and Russia will meet in a friendly match. How will the upcoming duel end? We'll figure it out.
Iran
Iran did not play a single match after the World Cup in Qatar, where it took third place in the group, losing to the US and England national teams and ahead of the Welsh national team, and Syua also lost its head coach Carlos Queiroz. It is worth noting that the upcoming game will be missed by the former Zenit St. Petersburg forward, now playing for Bayer Serdar Azmun, however, Porto forward Mehdi Taremi came to the team's training camp. Ten days before the game, Amir Galenoi was appointed as a mentor.
Russia
Russia is temporarily suspended from participating in international competitions due to the political situation in the world. Since September, Valery Karpin's wards have played three friendly matches, in which they showed not the best game, beating Kyrgyzstan (2:1) and drawing 0-0 against the national teams of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Before the match, the Russian team lost three of its leaders at once, Alexander Golovin, Alexey Miranchuk and Georgy Dzhikiya.
Statistics and figures
- Iran is the favorite of the match according to bookmakers;
- Russia has not lost for three games, but at the same time scoring only two goals;
- Iran has won two friendly games in the last five;
- Iran has suffered only one defeat in the last ten home games;
- The teams met in 2017, and the match ended in a 1-1 draw.
Forecast
I think that the Russian national team should prove itself and show a decent game, because after not the most expressive games against Asian teams that are much lower in class, a big barrage of criticism was poured on it, and even though Iran is the favorite and plays at home, I think that Valery Karpin's players will only play on victory. I propose to place two bets on the upcoming match: Russia will score in the first half and Russia will win at least one half.