England vs Iran LIVE, FIFA World Cup: Game kicks off; Kane not wearing ‘OneLove’ armband; ENG 0-0 IRN

Welcome to Sportstar’s LIVE protection of the FIFA World Cup conflict between England and Iran.

6’

England begins from the again once more. Iran hasn’t had one spell of possession but as England strikes the ball round with ease. Luke Shaw places a cross in, however Iran defence is alert to it.

3’

England with the early management over possession. And it wins the primary nook of the evening from the left. Trippier swings it in, however it’s too deep.

Kickoff

England gamers take the knee earlier than the kickoff.

IRAN LINEUP OUT

IRAN PLAYING 11: Beiranvand, Hosseini, Cheshmi, Pouraliganji, Mohammadi, Karimi, Moharrami, Hajsafi (C), Nourollahi, Taremi, Jahanbakhsh

ENGLAND LINEUP OUT

ENGLAND PLAYING 11: Pickford (GK); Trippier, Stones, Maguire, Shaw; Rice, Bellingham; Sterling, Mount, Saka; Kane

PREVIEW

England supervisor Gareth Southgate, more and more trying just like the helpless protagonist of the Hangman recreation, will want his group to play an enterprising recreation and ship a optimistic end in its World Cup opener towards Iran to cease the noose from tightening additional.

A contract operating until December 2024 has provided Southgate no measures of consolation with current outcomes – a winless Nations League run — and an absence of creativeness in play robbing him of all of the goodwill {that a} run to EURO closing had provided final yr. The supervisor, additional handicapped by the injury-absence of Chelsea wing-back pairing of Reece James and Ben Chilwell, has so much to fret about his defence with Harry Maguire struggling for kind and the ever-dependable Kyle Walker but to recuperate. 

Upfront, Harry Kane – England’s captain – could be Southgate’s key man with Raheem Sterling and Bukayo Saka working from the broad areas in a 3-4-3 system. With Leicester Metropolis’s James Maddison and Manchester Metropolis’s Kalvin Phillips uncertain after lacking out on coaching, England would possibly profit from the inclusion of 19-year-old Jude Bellingham, who can carry the fearlessness of youth to unfold concern within the Iranian ranks alongside the measured and skilled Declan Rice. 

Managed by former Manchester United and Actual Madrid coach Carlos Queiroz for the third time in a World Cup, Iran’s attacking menace will come from Mehdi Taremi, who has 28 objectives in 60 appearances, as Bayer Leverkusen ahead Sardar Azmoun – the Iranian Messi – is but to recuperate from a calf harm suffered in October. 

Queiroz, identified for his safety-first strategy, would possibly pack his midfield in a 4-5-1 system in a bid to disallow England any house to dictate the sport. In Alireza Jahanbakhsh and skipper Ehsan Hajsafi, taking part in his 122nd worldwide recreation, Workforce Melli has sufficient expertise to threaten the confidence-worn English defence. 

The twentieth ranked group on the earth shall be no pushovers on this first worldwide encounter between these nations with frosty diplomatic ties. 

-AYON SENGUPTA