Carlos Queiroz announced the starting lineup of Team Melli against Tunisia. The Portuguese coach will not be using a full strength starting lineup
According to the website of the Iran football federation, the Iranian national football team will start the game vs Tunisia tonight with the following players : Alireza Beiranvand, Ramin Rezaeian, Mohammad Reza Khanazadeh, Roozbeh Cheshmi, Milad Mohammadi, Ali Karimi, Ehsan Haj Safi, Masoud Shojaei, Karim Ansari Fard, Vahid Amiri and Reza Ghoochannejad.
Clearly, this lineup is not the strongest and more like the reserve team.
Seven main players who were usually in the starting lineup of the Team Melli during the World Cup qualifiers are not in the starting line-up for Tunisia game, due to injuries (Morteza PouraliGanji, Mehdi Taremi, Sardar Azmoun), or due to technical reasons based on the program’s preparedness and Carlos Queiroz Method for these games (Alireza Jahanbakhsh, Saeed Ezzatollahi and Seyed Jalal Hosseini).
This game starts at 19:15 local time and 22:45 pm Tehran time
Head2Head
| H / A / N | Matches | W | D | L | Goals | + / – |
| Home | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 – 0 | +0 |
| Away | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 – 0 | +0 |
| Neutral | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 – 2 | +0 |
| Total | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 – 2 | +0 |
| Date | Comp. | H / A / N | Final score | Stadium |
| 15.08.2012 | Friendly | N | 2 – 2 | Széktói Stadion, Kecskemét |
FIFA Ranking
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IRAN
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| Current World Ranking | 33 | 23 | |
| Average World Ranking | 46 | 36 | |
| Continental Ranking | 1 | 1 |
