Draws Dick Advocaat and Bert van Marwijk, Alireza Jahanbakhsh decisive | Football

sport">Iraq continues the qualifying campaign on Tuesday with a ‘home game’ in Qatar against Iran. The security situation in the country itself is not always stable enough for FIFA permission to play international games there. The same Iran won 1-0 against Syria on Thursday. Feyenoord player Alireza Jahanbakhsh was good for the only goal of the match ten minutes after the break.

sport">In the other match in the Asian qualifying group A, Bert van Marwijk took on Lebanon with his United Arab Emirates. This game ended – just like Advocaat – in a 0-0 draw, which means that Iran is in the lead for the time being.

Six countries

sport">The qualifying group consists of six countries, the first two of which qualify directly for the World Cup in Qatar next year. The number 3 plays a play-off against the number 3 from the other group, after which the winner of that match plays an intercontinental play-off for a World Cup ticket.

sport">Advocaat and Van Marwijk will meet each other for the first time on October 12 in a World Cup qualifier.

sport">watch here the program in the World Cup qualifier

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