Iran v USA: Win or bust for Americans

Americans still have hopes

USA threatened to cause an upset against England and went closest to scoring when Christian Pulisic rattled the crossbar in the first half.

Scoring goals looks their biggest issue, though, and boss Gregg Berhalter said after the England game: “A disciplined performance by the group. The final product could still be better.

“Overall, pleased with the performance of the group and most importantly the belief because that never wavered.

“In the end it sets up our first knockout game of the World Cup basically. We win or we’re out of the World Cup.”

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— U.S. Men's National Soccer Team (@USMNT) November 25, 2022

There is no love lost between these two nations and qualifying at the expense of the Americans would be the icing on the cake for Iran.

They triumphed 2-1 when the teams met at the 1998 World Cup while a friendly in 2000 ended in a 1-1 draw.

There are just four places separating the two teams in the world rankings so the value looks to be with Iran to qualify in the World Cup Group B betting, given both teams are the same price at 10/11 to progress.

In the #YourCall market, we like 15/8 for Iran to avoid defeat, under 0.5 goals in the first half and under 3.5 total goals for our Iran v USA betting tips.

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