The win means Portuguese coach Carlos Queiroz's Iran team will finish in the top two places in Group A of Asia's final round of qualifying.
Goals from Sardar Azmoun and Mehdi Taremi earned Islamic Republic of Iran their place at the finals of the FIFA World Cup in Russian Federation next year as Carlos Queiroz's team downed Uzbekistan 2-0 at the Azadi Stadium on Monday.
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The Rostov striker was found by Alireza Jahanbaksh's perfectly weighted pass that split the Uzbekistan defence and left Azmoun one-on-one with goalkeeper Aleksandr Lobanov.
As has been the case throughout the campaign, Queiroz's team stifled their opposition, giving little away in front of goal as they continued a remarkable streak of not conceding in qualifying that stretches back all the way to November 2015.
Five minutes into the second half, Masoud Shojaei squandered the chance to double his side's lead when Taremi was felled in the penalty area, only for the veteran midfielder to sky his penalty woefully over the bar.
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Samvel Babayan's men, who have 12 points from eight matches, are not yet out of contention for an automatic place but will have to win their remaining two matches and hope other results go in their favour. With this result, Iran joins Russian Federation -the host- and Brazil, leader of the South American classification, as the first countries with a participation ticket to the World Cup.
A few minutes later the Iranian fans all over the world should be relieved, when the final whistle sealed Iran's fifth World Cup participation in total. Sports a first for the world Cup the Brazilians made it, and Russian Federation will play at the world championship in the status of the host.
Goals by Sardar Azmoun in the 23rd minute and another by Medhi Taremi in the 88th, gave Iran its classification as the leader of Poll A in Asia.
This post was syndicated from Vanguard News.
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