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England 6-2 Iran
In fact, England did not play well at the beginning of the match, Iran's position in the opening phase was quite good, they were ready to play defensive counterattacks, Taremi in the front and Jahanbakhsh on the side have been on the waist of England, which is tantamount to pinching the opponent's throat, which made England's opening phase of the transmission is very bad.
And many of the England players do not run too much, compared to the second and second halves will be very clear, the second half after the lead of England's team activity is very large, but the first half of the opening stage should be full of physical condition they are a little bit unable to run, start to receive the ball are a little slower, Saka, Sterling, Mount, Rice are very obvious, Bellingham activity is larger, but he is not that accurate. Bellingham was more active, but his passing and catching wasn't as precise as it should have been, and a mistake in front of the box in the first half gave a chance to Iran, when England's better players were mainly Trippier and Luke Shaw.
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But the big event happened in 7 minutes, England kicked off a free kick in front of the field, HarryKane pulled to the side and passed directly to the center, the result of the front of the competition when the goalkeeper out of the attack hit his own people, which led to the goalkeeper Beiranvand nosebleed and seriously injured, although there is an attempt to support but there is no way to do so, and finally was replaced by the replacement goalkeeper Hosseini, just at 20 minutes of the game The key point of the game came just 20 minutes in, as the replacement goalkeeper Hosseini was no match for Beiranvand.
First of all, Hosseini's height is 187, which is a bit different from Beiranvand's 194, Iran felt that Hosseini's striking and aerial superiority is not enough, so they started to try to prevent England's two flanks from kicking the ball, but at 35:00, England still let Luke Shaw to force the ball from the left side, and then there was only one midfielder left in front of the goal, Karimi, who had to block Bellingham and Harry Kane. Bellingham and Harry Kane were left in front of the goal, and Bellingham scored easily.
The next few goals were scored by Saka, Sterling and others, then you can see that Hosseini's ability to save is problematic, although the England shot beautifully, but Hosseini is often a beat slow action that led to him not even touch the ball!
In the second half, Iran chose to let the attackers to go up to England, which actually had a role to play, England's attack because of this must take into account the back of the field and not very smooth, but by this time it was already 3-0 lead, so the players ran very easily, they press Iran with a high level of activity, and in the second half, HarryKane obviously dropped back to the middle and began to pass the ball, and his passes are quite accurate to create a lot of good chances. In the second half Harry Kane dropped back and started to pass the ball, his passes were quite accurate and created a lot of good chances, then in the 62nd and 71st minutes Saka and Rashford scored two more goals, but in the 65th minute Taremi took the ball in the penalty area and shot the ball into the top corner of the net, which broke the English goal. England scored the sixth goal in 89 minutes by Grealish, and then sent a 12-yard penalty to Iran, and finally England won 6-2 against Iran.
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Although England's big win, but the game can still see the problem, the first half if not Iran goalkeeper Beiranvand was injured and retired, England was running and passing the ball I'm afraid that there is no way to score a goal or two, and the second half of the Iranian coach Qui
Roth (name)
The attackers are quite experienced in letting the attackers to press high up in front of them, which obviously affects England's ability to get the ball out of the ground. Although Maguire had an assist to Saka to score in the end, but in the end, he lost the space that he should have kept in the defense, which also shows that his condition has not yet recovered, and it's indeed a bit of luck for England to get the big win, and they need to adjust to meet the energetic USA team in the second round. Iran actually put away their ace Azmoun, and only came out to chase points in the late second half, so it's possible that Iran will still have a good game next time out.
Netherlands 2-0 Senegal
Without Mané, they played surprisingly well, they started the game aggressively, the three midfielders Kouyaté, Nampalys Mendy, Idrissa Gueye kept going forward, the Netherlands originally lined up attacking midfielder Gakpo was immediately blocked, and Berghuis was also caught in the melee, Senegal utilized the very strong physical strength to press Holland. Senegal used their physical strength to press Holland, and the three players, Diatta, Ismaïla Sarr, and Dia, kept blocking the Dutch defenders' paths to the ball, which made Holland's side quite uncomfortable.
Holland is trying to play a fast counterattack in the middle distance, rely on the right back Dumfries to raid forward, it can be seen that Dumfries is in pretty good shape, but Senegalese side of the left back Diallo and the left midfielder Idrissa Gueye is very ferocious in the area of the pincer him, nonchalantly has been put down, would rather change the foul free kicks rather than allow Dumfries and the Dutch right side to get a chance to invade the penalty area, and the central Koulibaly and goalkeeper Mendy have been clearing the crosses. This reduced the chances of Holland's crosses, while Koulibaly in the center and Mendy in goal kept clearing the crosses, and the pace was maintained throughout the game, which seemed to be very stuck, but the pace of the attack was actually very fast.
