Iran Dream Shocking Nigeria

The Iranian U/17 national team is working on  a strategy to shock the Golden Eaglets when they meet today at the Khalifa Bin Stadium in
Al Ain in a round of 16 knock out stage clash.
The Golden Eaglets handlers have however promised they are banking on the team's pedigree experience to subdue the highly
defensive Iranian team. The Nigerian team has won the Under-17 World Cup three times
while the Iranians are only making their third appearances in the history of the tournament.

Captain of the Iranian side, Majid Hosseini says their making it to the round of 16 was no fluke and that will also come to play today when they meet the Eaglets. Iran's strength lies in its defensive tactical play and Hosseini said that strategy remains. "We do everything we can to make sure we don't let the opponents in," the captain and centre-back Majid Hosseini revealed.

Iran only scored three times to get this far and will be facing a Nigerian side that is blistering in attack with an average score line
of 4.6 goals per game. Nigerian coach, Manu Garba says his attack is blistering with many options that can destroy any team.
With full knowledge of Nigeria's potency, Hosseini said they know that Nigeria has the firepower and only need one second to hurt
any team and score a goal even from nothing.
Nigeria in this tournament has an intimidating scoring record of 14 goals so far. "It will be the hardest game so far for us; we can have
no illusion about it. Nigeria are a very strong team. We know about their attack. We know that they only need one second to hurt you,
to score a goal from nothing. We know all of this; but we have our strengths too.
Everybody in the team acts as a defender and when we do go forward we go forward as one.
This is one of the secrets of our success. Our defenders, all of us, are close friends and we support each. When we get into trouble,
there's always someone to help out." He revealed.
Hosseini said like the Swedish coach who watched Nigerian tapes 19 times before grabbing the 3-3 draw, their coach Al Doustimehr is also studying Nigerian tapes for
instructions to them because their dream is to reach the semi finals. "We listen to our coach because by listening to him we have arrived here at the World Cup, and now into the knockout rounds. Our coach will look at the Nigeria tapes and he will tell us what to do. And if we're smart, we'll listen."