Iran – China Prediction & Preview and Betting Tips (28.03.2017)

Prediction for Iran – China

Both are NOT scored and less than 2.5 goals @ 1.90

Match of the seventh day of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup Russia, which will face the selections of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the PRC in the Persian country.

Iran

At this point in the ranking Iran has practically done it: with 14 pts. In 6 meetings it surpasses in 5 to the selection of Uzbekistan and has taken a good income to accede to the World-wide one of Russia. In any case, not everything is done and they must still continue to compete and assert their superiority especially at home. In front, the selection of China that has risen from the hand of Marcelo Lippi and adds 5 pts. In 6 meetings (obtained 4 of them in the last 2) and that comes from winning in the best party in years of this selection to the one of South Korea. In any case, it is still difficult for China to 5 pts. Of the direct posts and 4 of the repesca.

Iran is a team with tremendous defensive reliability. The Persian picture trained by Queiroz is the continent’s most entrenched and regular block. They base their style on the defensive safety of an experienced back, with a base in Asian football, but in addition, they are a team that is exposed little through long possessions and parties of slow profile. They have interesting men in attack like Azmoun or Jahanbahsk, but they have lost their main reference in the connection between center of the field and the attack as it is Dejagah, reason why the fluidity of the Iranian game already felt against the qataríes in the party previous.

China

China, meanwhile, is a team more unknown by the almost total presence of its players in the Chinese league. With the hand of Marcelo Lippi the team has progressed in all its lines but we continue with the eternal problem of the Chinese selection: there is not only a forward of level in the call. The current model of Chinese football allows to register 3 foreign players, in such a way that the teams focus on reinforcing priority areas such as the front, so there is a single team of the Chinese First Division with a Chinese striker. So the options are few: resort to a false nine such as Gao Lin or Wu Lei, or players from outside China (practically impossible) or second division. In this way, China has some supernatural problems to score: it has remained in 4 of the 5 games without scoring, and in which it did it was with the party settled before South Korea (the first of them). This problem goes further as evidenced by the two games against Hong Kong without scoring, which shows the serious problems of those of Lippi to see door. In this last day, made a partidazo to defeat to South Korea, but still, were not able to generate occasions with fluency and only scored a goal in an epic party.

The scoring problems of China, which in addition to Lippi is acquiring an elaborate football style based on long possessions and improving their defensive performances; Added to the incredible defensive capacity of the Persians (IRAN DOES NOT FIX A GOL IN OFFICIAL MATCH SINCE NOVEMBER 2015), lead me to bet on this pick in a match in which I expect few or no goals, which would come from Iran and not a China with enough problems in this regard. In any case, I do not expect Iran to impose itself by a 3-0 (Iran itself is not a selection with a high scorer), and the value of the quota that allows us to add with a Chinese victory for the minimum or a 0- 0 and with a fairly acceptable quota make me lean for this prone. Luck.