29 Mar 2024
Thursday 29 May 2014 - 22:41
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Iran face Angola in final public test

Persianfootball.com HARTBERG,Irans national team will take on Angolain thesecond last friendly match ahead of the World Cup in Austrias Hartberg on Friday.
The final scheduled test against Trinidad & Tobago in Brazil on June 8 will be played behindclosed doorswith no cameras, spectators or journalists present.

Little experiments can be expected so shortly before the biggestfootball tournament, at least in the starting lineup.

From the 28 available players, only Hashem Beikzadeh is certainly out with thecalf injuryhe suffered versus Montenegro on Monday.

Andranik Teymourian, Jalal Hosseini, Khosro Heydari and Mehrdad Pouladi all had to pause training with minor injuries, butcould beback in the lineup tomorrow.

After Alireza Haghighi and Rahman Ahmadi were given a chance in the two previous friendly matches, Daniel Davari is now likely to start versus Angola.

The Africans will be all but a pushover considering their 2-0 friendly win over Morocco on Wednesdayand theclose results in the previous encounters of the two teams.

A bitter 1-1 draw in the 2006World Cupgroup stage was followed by a 1-0 friendly match win for Iran in 2011, when Javad Nekounam scored a last minute winner.

After the match, Team Melli will returnto Tehranfor a farewell ceremony before heading to Brazil for the final stage of preparations.

Iran Angola
Friendly Match, Hartberg, Austria, 30 May, 14.00 local time

Irans possible lineup:Davari Montazeri, Hosseini (Alenemeh), Sadeghi, Pouladi (Hajsafi) Teymourian (Hadadifar/R.Haghighi), Nekounam Heydari (Jahanbakhsh), Dejagah, Shojaei Ghoochannejhad

By Persian Football

 

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