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It is quite simple for the USA on Tuesday in opposition to Iran within the 2022 World Cup. Win, or go residence.

Three of the 4 groups in Group B — the US, England and Iran — are nonetheless alive for 2 spots within the spherical of 16. The situations are easy.

An Iran or US win will get both by way of. A win or draw from England places the Three Lions into the knockout stage. The People can nonetheless win the group with a victory and an England loss to Wales, or an England draw and a US win by at the very least 4 objectives.

However no scoreboard-watching right here. The matches happen on the identical time.

Listed here are the most important moments and high performs from the ultimate day in Group B play.

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Rising controversy

After a US Soccer Federation social media account briefly displayed Iran’s flag with out the logo of the Islamic Republic, Iran’s authorities reacted by accusing US Soccer of eradicating the title of God from their nationwide flag, and the Iranian soccer federation stated their nation will lodge a criticism with FIFA. A report from The Related Press stated Iran was additionally threatening authorized motion.

The USSF stated in an announcement Sunday morning that it determined to forgo the official flag on social media accounts to point out “help for the ladies in Iran preventing for fundamental human rights.”

The posts had been finally taken down and the flag’s emblem was restored. A US spokesperson stated the USSF nonetheless helps the protesters in Iran, and US defender Walker Zimmerman emphasised that the crew is targeted on Tuesday however stays in help of ladies’s rights.

“I believe it is such a targeted group on the duty at hand, however on the identical time we empathize, and we’re agency believers in girls’s rights and help them,” Zimmerman stated.