Examining the confrontations between Iran and Uzbekistan/ Invincible in Uzbek soil?

Iran’s national football team will face Uzbekistan in the second match of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers at Pakhtakor Stadium. On the way to the World Cup, Iran and Uzbekistan are grouped with the Hong Kong and Turkmenistan teams, both of which lost in the first game against Iran and Uzbekistan.
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Iran’s national football team will face Uzbekistan in the second match of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers at Pakhtakor Stadium. On the way to the World Cup, Iran and Uzbekistan are grouped with the Hong Kong and Turkmenistan teams, both of which lost in the first game against Iran and Uzbekistan.

Victory in Tuesday’s match could be Iran’s eighth consecutive win against its host, and of course, these confrontations have shown that the games of the two teams have always been low-scoring. 19 goals in 12 games and an average of 1.58 goals per game shows that the matches of the two teams are not always high-scoring.

In the matches between the two teams, 9 players managed to score, and Sardar Azmoun and Ali Daei are the best scorers of this match by scoring 3 goals. Mehdi Torabi, Seyed Jalal Hosseini and Mehdi Tarimi have scored 2 goals and Rouzbe Cheshmi, Mohammad Reza Khaltabari, Javad Kazemian and Ali Mousavi were the other Iranian scorers of this match. Also, Olgibek Bakayev and Eldar Shahmuradov are Uzbeks who have managed to open Iran’s goal, and once Rahman Rezaei has mistakenly opened an own goal for Uzbekistan.

In the previous 12 games, 16 goals were scored by Iran and 3 goals were scored by Uzbekistan. In the games held in Uzbekistan, Iran has 6 wins and 1 draw, and the Uzbeks have not been able to win at home against Iran. Also, this is the fourth time that the two teams are facing each other in the World Cup qualifiers, and 3 victories were the share of Iran and one victory was the share of the Uzbeks. This is the fourth time that the two teams meet at Pakhtakor Stadium. In the previous three games, 2 victories were the share of Iran and the only draw between the two teams was achieved in this stadium.