Not exactly the sexiest names in international soccer, but Nigeria and Iran will be battling for early position behind Argentina in Group F. Let’s be honest: this is Argentina’s group — everyone else is playing for second place.
Nigeria boasts a solid attack behind a couple Premier League players in Victor Moses and Peter Odemwingie. Those two, and Nigeria as a whole, should see plenty of chances against an over-matched Iran side.
Speaking of which, Iran has only one win in its World Cup history (against the United States in 1998) and that likely won’t change Monday. Nigeria, too, hasn’t seen much success, either, having failed to win a World Cup match since ’98.
Something has to give Monday.
But make no mistake: Nigeria has a better-than-good chance to move through to the knockout stage. They must beat Iran, though, as a draw probably won’t cut it CBSSPORTS.COM reports.
DATE: 16 june 2014
TIME: 07:00
VENUE: Arena da Baixada.
POSSIBLE LINE UP:
NIGERIA: Enyeama: Elderson, Oboabona, Omeruo, Ambrose: Onazi, Mikel: Odemwingie, Musa, Moses: Emenike.
IRAN: Davari: Heydari, Hosseini, Montazeri, Hajsafi: Dejagah, Nekounam, Trymourian, Jahanbakhsh: Ghoochanneijhad, Shojaei.
