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Iran and Portugal measure their strength in a meeting for this phase of the World Cup. There is no recent record of direct confrontations between the two teams, which have not crossed in the last 3 years. The last time they faced was the 17-06-2006, in a game that ended with the final result: Portugal (2-0) Iran.

Analysis of Iran

The team arrives at this 3rd round of Group B in 3rd place, with 3 points won, after 1 win and 1 loss. In their first game of this group stage won against Morocco by (0-1). In the second round, they lost against Spain by (0-1). In the last 10 matches played for all competitions, Iran won 7 and lost 3. Their attack has been regularly scored as they have managed to make it 8 out of the last 10 matches. In their games there is a tendency towards few goals, since 14 of their last 26 games finished with Less than 1.5 goals and 18 in 26 finished with Less than 2.5 goals. In 15 games, he has never been able to get his mark back in the four games in which he suffered the first goal.

Iran's national team is competing for the sixth time in the World Cup but has never been able to get past the first round. In this World Cup in Russia, the Iranian team won the first game against the Moroccan squad by 0-1 but may thank the Moroccans for this result because it was thanks to a self-goal already very close to the final that managed to win, in the second round was defeated by Spain, suffered a midway through second half and failed to recover from this disadvantage, showing little offensive power and a lot of defensive fragility. We believe that in this match against Portugal, Iran will again show offensive difficulties, but it will have many difficulties in overcoming the Portuguese attack, led by Cristiano Ronaldo, the tournament's best scorer.

Analysis of Portugal

After 1 win and 1 draw, the team arrives at this 3rd round in the 2nd position of Group B, with 4 points conquered. On the previous day, won against Morocco by (1-0), after in the first game of this group stage have tied for (3-3) against Spain. In the last 10 matches played for all competitions, Portugal won 5, drew 4 and lost 1. Their attack has regularly marked, as they managed to achieve in 8 of the last 10 matches. In 15 games, he managed to give back to the result in 2 of the 4 games in which he suffered the first goal. In the last 20 matches for all competitions there has been 1 period that stands out: suffered 5 of his 14 goals between minutes (31'-45 ').

The Portuguese national team is competing in the World Championship for the sixth time and has the best record in third place in the 1966 World Cup. In this Russia World Cup, the Portuguese side drew 1-1 with the Spanish team in a very busy game full of quality of both sides, but in the second round won the selection of Morocco by the minimum margin. We believe that in this game against the selection of Iran the selection of Portugal can reach the interval already in advantage and focus on defending from there, as it did against Morocco, thus avoiding a very open game and a result with many goals, mainly goals of the opponent.

Betting Tip: 

In this meeting between Iran and Portugal, we believe that the Portuguese team will win or at least draw, as they have more talented players than the Iranian national team and therefore have more chances to score goals, especially for Cristiano Ronaldo, who has scored four goals in two games and is currently the top scorer of the Russian World Cup.