England won convincingly 6-2 against Iran with goals from Jude Bellingham, Bukayo Saka (2), Raheem Sterling, Marcus Rashford and Jack Grealish and ensured that the Three Lions have had a brilliant start to the championship. A situation from the match that is now being hotly debated is what happened after only ten minutes with the score 0-0. In violent fashion, Iran goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand crashed violently with his own player and received a real blow to the head. Television footage showed a teammate splashing water in his face to revive him. After almost eight minutes of treatment, Beiranvand tried to play on, but was clearly groggy and lay down on the grass again after only half a minute of play. – I have never seen anything like it Only then did the Iran coach, the former Manchester United assistant and Real Madrid coach Carlos Queiroz, choose to replace him with reserve goalkeeper Hossein Hosseini. – I have never seen anything like it, it was horrible. This should not have been the player’s decision. The medical staff should have taken him straight off and checked him thoroughly, said Sky Sports pundit and former Premier League player Lee Hendrie. – Shameful of the doctors. The decision has to be taken out of his (Beiranvand’s) hands, writes Simon Peach, head of football at the Press Association. In news’s WC studio, Kristoffer Løkberg was just as clear and distinct. – Yes, that is where the problem lies. It may not be left to the player. In a WC that is playing, there is a third person who has to make the decision that it is not possible to continue playing, and it cannot be the coach either, because he thinks quite hard about the team every now and then, Løkberg believes. When the game resumed, it didn’t take long before England slowly but surely carved out the big opportunities. First it was Mason Mount who came close to scoring with a finish just wide, before Harry Maguire headed over the crossbar from a corner. Bellingham show But after 34 minutes the wait was over, when shooting star Jude Bellingham rose into the air and headed in his first score for England – and 1-0 was a fact. Talk about taking care of the opportunity in the first World Cup game of your career. A short time later, the reviled Harry Maguire won a header in the box and headed the ball down to Bukayo Saka, who loaded the cannon and hammered home 2-0 with a superb shot from 20 metres. England wanted more, and in the 45th minute it was Raheem Sterling’s turn. He timed his run perfectly and made it 3-0 with a close-range finish from a fine cross from Harry Kane. Thus, three scores in ten minutes ensured that the British went into the break with a comfortable lead. The second half was a single big charmer stage for England, and matches were largely decided. In the 62nd minute, Saka made it 4-0 with his second goal of the day, before Mehdi Taremi reduced the deficit a few minutes later. Marcus Rashford, who was substituted in the second half, made it 5-1 20 minutes before the end. Jack Grealish made it 6-1 with a tap-in after some beautiful football just before the end. In overtime, there was a VAR situation when Iran called for a penalty after a shirt holding in the field. Referee Raphael Claus chose to award a penalty, despite the fact that it looked cheap on the replays. From the penalty spot, Mehdi Taremi was safe and fixed the final score at 6-2. England’s next game is against the USA on Friday 25 November. Iran face Wales on the same day. PS: The entire build-up to the match was influenced by non-sporting factors. First the much talked about choice by England to drop the One Love captain’s armband after threats of sporting sanctions from Fifa, and then the Iranian spectators chose to bow during the country’s own national anthem while none of the Iranian players, with the exception of one, chose to sing with. The regime in Iran, under the leadership of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is facing some of the biggest protests in the country since the Islamic revolution in 1979, writes NTB. For two months, thousands of protesters have been protesting and demanding changes after a 22-year-old Iranian-Kurdish woman died in moral police custody after being arrested for not covering her hair well enough, the news agency said.
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