2026 World Cup Qualifiers Will the Qalanewi team reach a record of 10 consecutive wins in the home of wolves?

According to the sports reporter of Fars news agency, the senior national football team of our country is visiting Uzbekistan in its second game in the first qualifying round of the 2026 World Cup at Tashkent National Stadium starting at 16:30 on Tuesday.

Amir Qalanewi’s students, who won their first match with a score of 4-0 against Hong Kong, will face Uzbekistan for the second time since the coach’s return. On June 30, they defeated this opponent 1-0 in the final of the Kafa tournament.

Iran’s national team has played against Uzbekistan 12 times in history, and the result has been 10 wins, one draw and one loss. The point is that in the 4 matches held between the two teams in the framework of the World Cup qualifiers in 2014 and 2018, 3 wins and 1 loss were recorded.

The White Wolves (Uzbekistan national team title), who are now ranked 73rd in the world and 10th in Asia, 52 places lower than Iran, finished their first game in this stage with a 3-1 advantage against Turkmenistan.

For this game, Amir Qalanewi, along with Ahmed Noorullahi, was left out due to disciplinary issues, Aria Yousefi, Mohammad Ghorbani and Saeed Sahrkhizan were not sent to Tashkent due to the limitation of sending more than 25 players, and of course Alireza Jahanbakhsh was also injured due to a hamstring injury during the meeting with Hong Kong lost the game with the students of Sertko Katanch (head coach of Uzbekistan).

In the current team of Uzbekistan, there are prominent legionnaires such as Abdulkader Khosanov (Lance France), Rostam Ashurmatov (Rubin Kazan, Russia), Abdullah Abdullahov (Khorfkan, UAE), Hasanuddin Aliqaluf (Chaikor Rizaspor, Turkey), Azizjan Ganif (Ahly, UAE), Atabek Shukurov (Fatih Karagmark, Turkey), Khojimat Arkinov. Torpedo Moscow, Russia) Abbasbek Faizullahov (Cseska Moscow, Russia), Jalaluddin Masharipov (Panseriakos, Greece), Igor Sergeyev (Pasum United, Thailand), Eldor Shahmuradov (Cagliari, Turkey) and Bobor Abdul Khaliqov (Ordabasi, Kazakhstan) are present. Of course, players like Farrokh Sifief, Khaji Akbar Alijanov, Utkir Yusupov, Adel Jan Hambrobkov and Oston Oronov should not be overlooked in the list of this indifferent team.

Since the beginning of 2023, with Amir Qalanewi on the bench, Iran has won 9 and drawn one and wants to end the year with a win or at least without defeat. On the other hand, the Uzbeks have 7 wins, 2 losses and 2 draws this year.

The change in the composition of the national team is certain due to Jahanbakhsh’s injury, but the number of these changes is likely to increase.

On the other hand, Ghalenoui, who traveled to Uzbekistan under difficult conditions due to the worsening pain caused by kidney stones, hopes that his students will maintain their good spirit by winning this game before the Nations Cup.

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