On Friday, Group B of the 2018 World Cup Russia will also be active, when at the Saint-Petersburg Stadium in St. Petersburg, the Moroccan and Iranian teams will break the fires, with the idea of achieving a victory that will allow them to arrive optimistically. his game against Portugal and Spain.
Morocco:
Those led by Herve Renard made an excellent eliminatory in Africa after finishing leader their group in the last round, thanks to an undefeated in its six games where three were victories and thus it added 12 points, taking a lead of four points over its maximum persecutor as it was Ivory Coast.
It must be said that this was achieved not only by the well-worked team of Medhi Benatia who is the main star of Morocco, in addition to Hakim Ziyech who has been considered one of the main figures of Dutch football, but also a good defensive work that led to the Atlas Lions not receiving any goal in their six elimination games.
The current moment in Morocco is quite positive, as they are coming to close their preparation stage with a 1-3 victory over Estonia and in this way add a run of eighteen games without losing, where all the competitions are included as eliminatory, friendly and the African Cup of Nations which won in February this year after beating Nigeria 4-0.
Iran:
The situation of those led by the Portuguese Carlos Queiroz is very similar and even a little better, and is that before the draw with two goals against Syria in what was the last game of the Asian qualifiers, Iran added a streak of twelve games without receive any goal, which was considered a record in the World Cup qualifiers.
Iran comes to close its participation with a victory by the slightest difference against Lithuania and reaches its debut in the 2018 World Cup with only two defeats in its last seventeen games in all competitions, and this generates confidence for a team that wants to erase bad that happened in the last World Cup Brazil 2014 where he scored just one point with a goalless draw against Nigeria and that led him to finish last in his group, below selections such as Argentina, Nigeria and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
And to erase such a bad campaign, Queiroz relies on what players like Alireza Jahanbakhsh can do, who has finished as the Eredivisie’s scorer with 21 goals, and without neglecting Karim Ansarifard who finished as the second top scorer in the Greek Super League. with 17 goals, two less than Serbian Prijovic.
These teams scheduled a friendly for the month of January 2017, but unfortunately this could not be carried out, so this Friday’s game will be the first direct match between these teams.
PREDICTION: Both teams to score / NO @ 1.52
