Al -Abyad loses in front of Iran and holds his accounts in direct qualification for the World Cup

The national football team held its accounts in direct qualification to the 2026 World Cup Finals, after losing two clean goals outside its stadium in front of its Iranian counterpart in the meeting hosted by the Azadi stadium in the capital, Tehran yesterday, in the seventh round of the qualifiers, and he needs to win in the next three matches while waiting for a gift from other competitors, and the first leg that brought the two teams gathered last September ended with Iran’s victory without a response.

The loss in the freezing of the team’s balance caused 10 points in third place, while the Iran team strengthened its chances significantly in the kidnapping of the qualification card to the World Cup after they raised their balance to 19 points, for its part, the Uzbek team moved the second place in the table with a difference of 6 points from “Al -Abyad”, taking advantage of its victory over its guest of Kyrgyzstan with a goal without a response to the Bunyudkour Stadium in Tashkent, to become 16 points a point.

Al -Abyad players did not perform the expected performance throughout the two halves, and they focused significantly on the defensive side to avoid receiving goals, but in return the team was not effective at the offensive level. The new faces that were summoned to the team and participated in the meeting were below the level of aspirations, and showed that they needed time for harmony.

Returning to the meeting, the national team players fought the first minutes of the match in a tight defensive style, backing to their back areas and pressing the ball holder with the owners of the land, with the aim of absorbing enthusiasm. However, the Iranian national team’s attacks soon began to put pressure on the defense line, the most dangerous of which was the shot of Mujtaba Mohammadi, which goalkeeper Khaled Issa kept his foot in the fourth minute.

At a time when the “white” players gradually began to share the performance with the owners of the land, a sudden malfunction in one of the lighting pillars caused the meeting to stop for a quarter of an hour, but after resuming the game, the Iranian team returned to control the course of the meeting, and this included some of the opportunities that “Al -Abyad” obtained, through the Caio Lucas shot that passed next to the post, and the attempt of McKinsey Hunt that the goalkeeper Ali Reda tackled.

In the midst of the team’s rush to the front, the defensive gaps that the landowners exploited by scoring the goal of progress in the 45th+27 minute appeared by Sardar Azmun, who transformed the cross of his colleague, Saman Qadmus, with his head in the net, amid a follow -up from the defense line and goalkeeper Khaled Issa.

With the start of the second half, the owners of the land rushed forward, which resulted in a goal scored by Mohamed Mohbi in the 46th minute, but it was canceled by South Korean referee Hyung Jin Ko due to infiltration, and (video technology) approved the validity of the decision. The canceled goal helped the team players to abandon their defensive way and start launching attacks.

The defensive errors cost to receive a second goal in the 70th minute, when Mohamed Mohbi received a pass, a penetration into the penalty area amid a chase of the defense line, before he hit a land ball that settled in the net. The subsequent minutes continued without any change in the level of the result, and the “white” suffered by the loss with two clean goals.