🇮🇷Iran

1. 1

   Los Angeles · SoFi Stadium

   🇳🇿New Zealand ·Jun 16 D 2–2

   30 m · 70k · fixed · 27°C

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   🇮🇷Iran 2–2 🇳🇿New Zealand

   Twice behind, twice level — Iran refused to let this one go. Elijah Just punished them inside seven minutes and again just after the hour, but Ramin Rezaeian's strike and then Mehdi Mohebi's, Rezaeian turning provider, hauled them back each time. Seventeen shots and an xG edge of 1.5 to 1.24 say Iran were the more ambitious side; the six saves their goalkeeper made say it was never comfortable. A point clawed from a game that kept slipping away. There is real character in a team that keeps standing up after the count.

   Goals 7' E. Just · 32' R. Rezaeian · 54' E. Just · 64' M. Mohebi

   xG 1.5–1.24 ·Poss 48% ·Shots 17 (4 on target) ·Corners 4 ·GK saves 6

2. 2

   Los Angeles · SoFi Stadium

   at 🇧🇪Belgium ·Jun 21 D 0–0

   30 m · 70k · fixed · 27°C

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   🇮🇷Iran 0–0 🇧🇪Belgium

   Iran came to defend a line, and they did. They surrendered seventy-one percent of the ball and twenty-one shots and still found a way to nil, the goalkeeper the difference with seven saves. They even had a moment to dream of more, Mehdi Taremi turning the ball home in the twenty-fifth only for an offside flag to chalk it off. Belgium's dismissal in the 66th minute handed them a numerical edge, but this point was built on bodies in the box. Expected goals of 0.61, and a clean sheet against far wealthier opposition that is its own kind of win.

   xG 0.61–1.77 ·Poss 29% ·Shots 7 (3 on target) ·Corners 2 ·GK saves 7

3. 3

   Seattle · Lumen Field

   at 🇪🇬Egypt ·Jun 27 D 1–1

   10 m · 69k · open · 23°C

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   🇮🇷Iran 1–1 🇪🇬Egypt

   Iran will feel this was two points stolen, not one earned. Behind to Mohamed Saber's early strike, they carried the greater threat all afternoon — an expected-goals line of 1.83 to 0.81 underlines it — and levelled through Ramin Rezaeian after Mehdi Taremi had missed from the spot. With thirty-nine percent of the ball they were the sharper side, and they thought they had won it deep in stoppage, only for Saeid Khalilzadeh's header to be chalked off by a challenging offside call in the ninety-third minute. A point that rewards their counter-attacking, with a real grievance attached.

   Goals 5' M. Saber · 14' R. Rezaeian

   xG 1.83–0.81 ·Poss 39% ·Shots 12 (4 on target) ·Corners 2 ·GK saves 2

• 1,553km travelled
• 20m altitude swing
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