Wales vs Iran LIVE: World Cup 2022 latest score, goals and updates as Gareth Bale breaks record

3 mins: Ehasn Hajsafi is fouled as the ball is dinked into midfield and Iran’s Saeed Ezatolahi floats a quick free kick over to the left wing. Iran then fail to capitalize on the quick play as a pass into the penalty area rolls safely out of play.

Chance! A long ball up the pitch comes to Kieffer Moore who wins the aerial ball and nods it on for Harry Wilson’s run in behind. Wilson takes it down thw ing before slipping the ball to Neco Williams.

Williams checks to the right, then laces a curling effort just over the far top corner!

Here we go. Wales will know that three points puts them close to qualifying for the last 16 and a defeat will see them on the verge of getting knocked out of the tournament.

They’ll need to start better than they did against the USA where they were sluggish in the first half and allowed their opponents to freedom to operate.

Wales get the ball rolling and the match is underway.

Gareth Bale – Wales’ most capped player with his appearance to date – leads out the team. He’s been the talisman of this side for years now and will need to inspire his team mates once more today.

The national anthems are next before kick off at 10am.

Wales are still outsiders to qualify out of Group B narrowly behind the USA who take on England later tonight. That could all change if Rob Page’s men triumph over Iran this morning.

Gareth Bale has urged teachers in Wales to let children watch a World Cup “mini history lesson” in Qatar. Wales’ second game of the 2022 World Cup kicks off at 10am GMT on Friday when children are in class.

The PA news agency revealed earlier this month that children had been given the green light to support Robert Page’s side.

The Welsh Government has left it up to individual schools to decide whether to allow children to watch the game, and Bale wants as many of them as possible to do so.

Williams’ grandfather died on Sunday and the Nottingham Forest full-back shared the sad news on social media after playing in Wales’ 1-1 draw against the United States.

“Yesterday was the toughest news I’ve ever had to face and that was listening to my mum tell me my grandad passed away last night,” Williams wrote on Monday night, dedicating the game and point to his late grandfather.

“To go from crying all day to start in a World Cup game was extremely tough but I got through it from the support of my team-mates and family.”

The Welsh players have been out to inspect the pitch. The fans are flooding in spite of some Wales fans not being able to make it to Qatar.

This is a huge match for Wales, collecting three points today is a must for Rob Page’s men.

The fans have started to arrive at the Ahmad bin Ali Stadium ahead of kick off at 10 am. Can Wales get past Iran and put one foot in the knockout rounds?

The colors have become one of the tense moments of the tournamentas so many players, officials and fans want to make a gesture of solidarity towards the LGBTQ+ Community over Qatar’s laws and culture around homosexuality.

The Independent has been told of cases where Welsh fans were simply wearing the colors of the country – red, yellow, white and green – only to be told to take them off.

A host of Wales fans will be unable to attend their second World Cup 2022 game against Iran on Friday after being turned away at the airport.

Many supporters attending the finals in Qatar are staying in Dubai and flying into Doha for the fixtures, but dozens are reporting that the Hayya permit card required to get into the country for games has failed to function properly, resulting in them being denied entry.

This comes despite some of those same fans having attended Wales’ other game, a 1-1 draw with USA in their Group B opener, earlier in the week. On this occasion, however, some permits are displaying as “pending” approval, leading airport staff to deny those passengers from boarding.