On Monday, May 28, in a friendly atmosphere, the Turkey-Iran game will be played. The confrontation will take place on Istanbul’s Basaksehir Fatih Terim Stadium.
Lu 19:15 Turkey – Iran
With Mircea Lucescu on the technical bench in the last four games of the preliminaries, the hosts missed the qualification at the final tournament in Russia. In Group I, they only finished fourth to five points behind Croatia, second place. In an attempt to rebuild the team, Turkey has already played two friendly games this year. Victoria with Ireland (1-0) was followed by Montenegro’s draw, score 2-2. Also at the beginning of June, they will meet Tunisia and Russia, two bands that will participate in the World Championship.
With the Portuguese Carlos Queiroz on the technical bench, the guests have managed to qualify for the fifth time in history in a world. At the last participation in Brazil (2014), he managed to get only one point in the group stage, after he drew with Nigeria 0-0. In none of the previous participations has managed to pass the group stage. Most likely, things will not be the case any more, Iran will face teams such as Morocco, Spain and Portugal. With a defensive play style, Asian players have scored eight “under 2.5 goals” in their last nine runs. The only spectacular encounter took place in Montenegro when he managed to score 2-1.
The last two bands met in 1974, at the RCD Cup, a competition organized in Ankara. Turkey then beat the 1-0 score.
PREDICTION: Over 1.5 goals @ 1.41
