The Fifa 2022 World Cup tournament kicked off its first match yesterday with the hosts Qatar and Ecuador, playing the first match of the tournament. The opening ceremony was perfect, the performance from the dancers, the technical team, musicians and also the actor was beautiful, my favorite part in the opening ceremony was when they played the old world cup songs, it brought back a lot of beautiful memories and I have to hand it to the host they did a great job.
Ecuador won their first and first win of the tournament against Qatar by two goals to nothing, the host had a poor performance on the field and I was not getting the energy that they wanted to compete for the title. Ecuador owned Valencia was the man of the match, he scored a brace which gave his country all three points in the match, Ecuador played well and I look forward to seeing how they progress in the competition.
Today England played against Iran. The English side had an impressive performance today and the one player that surprised me on the pitch was Manchester United's own Harry Maguire. Maguire was impressive in defense and almost got a goal in the first half. Maguire needs to be investigated because anytime he wears an England jersey he seems to be a different person on the pitch😂, let me not praise him too much before he factory reset😂.
England scored the first goal in the 35th minute of the first half, Luke Shaw swung the ball into Iran's box and found Jude Bellingham who headed the ball into the goalposts and gave England their first lead of the match. England got their second goal in the 43rd minute, Harry Maguire headed the loose ball to Bukayo Saka, the Arsenal young star wasted no time and played a shot into the top corner of the goalpost and doubled England's lead just a few minutes to halftime.
England was not done scoring goals as they got another goal in the 45th minute, Harry Kane led a counterattack and played a through ball into the box, leaving Sterling who made a tap-in into the goal post and extended England's lead to three goals. Bukayo Saka got his second goal of the match in the 62nd minute of the second half, Sterling laid out a pass to Saka who tried to dribble his way past an Iran defender and then played a shot into the goal post and scored his second world cup goal.
Iran scored their first goal of the match in the 65th minute, Ali Gholizadeh from Iran played a through ball to his teammate in England's defense box, Mehdi Tameri received the ball and played a shot into the goalpost. England scored another goal again, this time it was Marcus Rashford who was subbed in and got the fifth goal from an incredible run down Iran's defense.
Jack Grealish got himself on the scoresheet in the 90th minute and was assisted by Callum Willson, Jack Grealish sealed England's victory as he made the scoreline 6-1. Iran got another goal from a penalty in the 90+13 minutes, Mehdi Tameri scored the first goal for Iran, took the penalty kick, and played the ball behind the goalkeeper into the goalpost.
The match ended and England took three points, looking forward to seeing how this team progresses into the world cup after they had a terrible season in the Uefa Nations League. So guys that will be all for now, thanks for stopping by.
