{"id":18334,"date":"2014-05-29T09:09:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T16:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=18334"},"modified":"2014-05-29T09:31:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T16:31:44","slug":"iran-face-angola-in-final-public-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/05\/29\/iran-face-angola-in-final-public-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran face Angola in final public test"},"content":{"rendered":"

Persianfootball.com – HARTBERG, Iran’s national team will take on Angola in the second last friendly match ahead of the World Cup in Austria’s Hartberg on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The final scheduled test against Trinidad & Tobago in Brazil on June 8 will be played behind closed doors with no cameras, spectators or journalists present.<\/p>\n

Little experiments can be expected so shortly before the biggest football tournament, at least in the starting lineup.<\/p>\n

From the 28 available players, only Hashem Beikzadeh is certainly out with the calf injury he suffered versus Montenegro on Monday.<\/p>\n

Andranik Teymourian, Jalal Hosseini, Khosro Heydari and Mehrdad Pouladi all had to pause training with minor injuries, but could be back in the lineup tomorrow.<\/p>\n

After Alireza Haghighi and Rahman Ahmadi were given a chance in the two previous friendly matches, Daniel Davari is now likely to start versus Angola.<\/p>\n

The Africans will be all but a pushover considering their 2-0 friendly win over Morocco on Wednesday and the close results in the previous encounters of the two teams.<\/p>\n

A bitter 1-1 draw in the 2006 World Cup group stage was followed by a 1-0 friendly match win for Iran in 2011, when Javad Nekounam scored a last minute winner.<\/p>\n

After the match, Team Melli will return to Tehran for a farewell ceremony before heading to Brazil for the final stage of preparations.<\/p>\n

Iran – Angola<\/strong>
\nFriendly Match, Hartberg, Austria, 30 May, 14.00 local time<\/p>\n

Iran’s possible lineup:<\/strong> Davari – Montazeri, Hosseini (Alenemeh), Sadeghi, Pouladi (Hajsafi) – Teymourian (Hadadifar\/R.Haghighi), Nekounam – Heydari (Jahanbakhsh), Dejagah, Shojaei – Ghoochannejhad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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