Football Previews
Morocco vs Iran
Competition – FIFA World Cup
Stadium – Arena St Petersburg
Date: 15th June 2018
Kick-off time – 16:00 GMT
This is Morocco’s first appearance at the World Cup in 20 years and they will be giving it their very best in a really tough group which includes Spain and Portugal.
The class of their other two opponents means the team that wins this game is the side that has a small chance of going through to the knockout phase.
The Africans are favourites in this game if you take a look at the talents at their disposal.
The Atlas Lions have a Juventus centre back (Mehdi Benatia) as captain, an Ajax man (Hakim Zyech) as star midfield, and an 11 goals in 10 international games striker, Ayoub El Kaabi.
The latter has scored in 5 of his last six games for Morocco.
The Moroccans have won 14 of their last 18 games, with their opponents including South Korea, Nigeria, Serbia, Ukraine, and Slovakia.
Iran, in all honesty, do not have the talent or form of the Moroccans heading into this game.
They struggled to beat Lithuania 1-0 in their last friendly game, a result that followed a 2-1 loss to Turkey at the end of May.
The Iranians also lost to Tunisia recently and they failed to beat Syria on home soil some nine months ago.
These results make them underdogs in this game and they could give the Moroccans a good start to the competition.
Possible starting lineups:
Morocco
Iran
Results of each team’s last 5 matches across all leagues and competitions
Morocco
| LAST FIVE GAMES | DATE | COMPETITION | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | Estonia |  |
1-3 |  |
Morocco | 9 Jun, 2018 | International Friendly |
| W | Morocco | |
2-1 |  |
Slovakia | 4 Jun, 2018 | International Friendly |
| D | Morocco | |
0-0 |  |
Ukraine | 31 May, 2018 | International Friendly |
| W | Morocco | |
2-0 |  |
Uzbekistan | 27 Mar, 2018 | International Friendly |
| W | Serbia |  |
1-2 | |
Morocco | 23 Mar, 2018 | International Friendly |
Iran
| LAST FIVE GAMES | DATE | COMPETITION | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | Iran |  |
1-0 |  |
Lithuania | 8 Jun, 2018 | International Friendly |
| L | Turkey |  |
2-1 | |
Iran | 28 May, 2018 | International Friendly |
| W | Iran | |
1-0 | |
Uzbekistan | 19 May, 2018 | International Friendly |
| W | Iran | |
2-1 |  |
Algeria | 27 Mar, 2018 | International Friendly |
| L | Tunisia |  |
1-0 | |
Iran | 23 Mar, 2018 | International Friendly |
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