Morocco vs. Iran 2018 World Cup Betting Preview & Pick
🇩🇿 Algerian international, Sofiane Feghouli, knows who he will be supporting in the upcoming World Cup:
“I hope Morocco and Younès Belhanda will progress, as they have a strong and well-organized team. Of course I will support them.” #MAR pic.twitter.com/bpUltotZsL — Maghrib Foot (@MaghribFoot) 11 de junio de 2018
- When: Friday, June 15 at 11 AM EST
- Where: Saint-Petersburgh Stadium, St. Petersburg
- TV: FOX
- Radio: TuneIn
- Live Stream: Fox Sports Go
- 2018 Worl Cup Betting Odds: Morocco +127 (Over/Under at 2 goals)
Why bet on Morocco?
Morocco is an incredibly well-organized team, as they showed in their impressive qualifying run. They won their final qualifying group in grand style, going 6 games without conceding a single goal. While that may suggest that they do not attack, the reality is that they play a possession style of football that comes from a packed midfield in a 4-5-1 formation. Since beating the Ivory Coast 2-0 in the final qualifying game for Russia, Morocco has played 5 games, winning 4 and drawing 1, which means they are coming into this tournament on a very good run of form. They were their typical defensively solid lot during that 5-game run, but they also proved that they could score goals, outgunning their opponents 9-3 during that stretch of games.Possible Line-Up
- 12-Munir
- 2-Hakimi
- 6-Saiss
- 5-Benatia
- 16-Amrabat
- 8-El Ahmadi
- 18-Harit
- 14-Boussoufa
- 10-Belhanda
- 7-Ziyech
- 9-El Kaabi
Why bet on Iran?
The Iranians made no friends with their style of play at the last World Cup, packing the defense and barely venturing outside their own half. A lot can change in 4 years, though, and they now adopt more of an attacking formation, although they are still defensively solid. Iran cruised through Asian qualifying and actually set a record by going on a 12-game run where they did not concede a goal.
Possible Line-Up
- 1-Beiranvand
- 23-Rezaeian
- 4-Cheshmi
- 8-Pouraliganji
- 5-Mohammadi
- 18-Jahanbakhsh
- 7-Shojaei
- 3-Hajsafi
- 17-Taremi
- 20-Azmoun