Iran can book their ticket at the World Cup Finals in Qatar with a victory over Iraq on Thursday afternoon at Azadi Stadium in Tehran.

The team led by Croatian manager Dragan Skocic did not have any problems so far in the qualifying campaign.

They have won five and drawn one of six matches in the process, the lone draw coming from a 1-1 tie to Korea Republic who are their main rivals in Group A.

Iran are two points clear off Korea Republic atop the group ladder and as many as ten points above third-placed UAE.

With this advantage and only four games left to play, it is clear that only a miracle can prevent Skocic’s troops from making it to their fifth World Cup in the last seven editions.

Iraq still have some chance of catching the third place in the group and thus booking the playoffs tie. However, we don’t quite rate their chances knowing the team led by Montenegrin manager Zeljko Petrovic are yet to record a victory in the campaign.

Iraq drew four and lost two of six games so far, scoring only three goals in the process. They are up against the section leaders who have only allowed two goals so far in the competition.

The Iraqis were on a run of ten straight outings without a win before beating Uganda 1-0 in a friendly six days ago



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25日下午，在伊朗首都德黑兰阿扎迪体育场举行的世界杯决赛圈比赛中，伊朗队战胜了伊拉克队。

这支由克罗地亚主教练斯科契奇带领的球队到目前为止在资格赛中没有遇到任何问题。

在这一过程中，他们在6场比赛中取得了5胜1平的成绩，这是他们在a组1-1战平主要对手韩国队后的唯一平局。

伊朗比排名第一的韩国高出2分，比排名第三的阿联酋高出10分。

有了这样的优势，而且只剩下四场比赛了，很明显，只有奇迹才能阻止斯科契奇的球队在过去七届世界杯中第五次进入世界杯。

伊拉克仍然有机会获得小组第三名，从而晋级季后赛。然而，我们不太看好他们的机会，因为门的内哥罗主帅佩特洛维奇带领的球队还没有在比赛中取得胜利。

到目前为止，伊拉克在6场比赛中4平2负，只进了3球。他们的对手是在比赛中只丢了两个球的组长。

在6天前的一场友谊赛中，伊拉克队以1比0击败了乌干达队，他们已经连续10场没有获胜