Saka and Mount start to support Sterling and Kane in attack.
Foden, Grealish and Rashford are substitutes, as is Liverpool full-back Alexander-Arnold.
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The English eleven:
Pickford - Shaw, Maguire, Stones, Trippier - Mount, Rice, Bellingham, Saka - Sterling, Kane (cap)
Side Iran, the players of Carlo Queiroz should articulate in 3-5-2.
The prolific Porto striker, Mehdi Taremi, is aligned at the forefront.
Bayer Leverkusen center-forward Sardar Azmoun (65 caps, 41 goals) is on the bench.
The Iranian eleven:
Beiranvand – Hosseini, Cheshmi, Pouraliganji – Mohammadi, Hajsafi, Karimi, Nourollahi, Moharrami – Taremi, Jahanbakhsh