TEHRAN \u2013 Iran’s national football team and Belgium shared the spoils in a goalless draw in their second Group G match of the 2026 FIFA World Cup on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
The match was played at SoFi Stadium, where neither side managed to find the back of the net.<\/p>\n
Mehdi Taremi thought he had opened the scoring in the 25th minute, but his effort was disallowed for offside.<\/p>\n
Belgium were reduced to 10 men in the 68th minute after Nathan Nguy was shown a straight red card for a foul on Taremi.<\/p>\n
Iran had opened their World Cup campaign with a 2-2 draw against New Zealand and now face a crucial encounter against Egypt on June 27 as they look to keep their hopes of advancing to the knockout stage alive.<\/p>\n
The 2026 tournament marks Iran’s seventh appearance at the FIFA World Cup, underscoring the nation’s continued presence on football’s biggest stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEHRAN \u2013 Iran’s national football team and Belgium shared the spoils in a goalless draw in their second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[4736,7,12675],"class_list":["post-22958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-2026-fifa-world-cup","tag-belgium","tag-team-melli"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116790161941183536","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}