Belgium 0-0 Iran player ratings: Perfect 10 awarded as Romelu Lukaku wastes chance

Group G of the 2026 World Cup inactive awaits its archetypal victor and loser pursuing Belgium and Iran's goalless gully astatine the SoFi Stadium connected Sunday evening.

Rudi Garcia's men were unsurprisingly the ascendant broadside against their Persian counterparts, but the Red Devils lacked a ruthless borderline passim and besides ran into an inspired Iran goalkeeper.

Belgium besides mislaid defender Nathan Ngoy to a second-half reddish card, and they volition beryllium bumped down to 3rd spot successful the rankings nary substance what transpires successful New Zealand vs. Egypt.

Here, Sports Mole provides subordinate ratings from Belgium and Iran's 0-0 draw.

Belgium subordinate ratings vs. Iran: Romelu Lukaku starting determination unjustified

GOALKEEPER

Thibaut Courtois - 8/10

Nowhere adjacent arsenic engaged arsenic his goalkeeping counterpart, but was arsenic reliable and arsenic crisp arsenic ever erstwhile helium was called upon.

DEFENCE

Thomas Meunier - 6/10

His astir notable publication was being booked for taking excessively agelong implicit a throw-in.

Nathan Ngoy - 4/10

A mostly faultless show for 65 minutes, earlier a catastrophic mistake and stonewall sending-off.

Brandon Mechele - 6/10

Always successful the close spot astatine the close clip defensively, but sent a promising header implicit the apical precocious on.

Maxim De Cuyper - 6/10

Will beryllium having nightmares astir Iran's goalkeeper for weeks to come. Four shots connected target, each 4 kept retired - partially owed to terrific shot-stopping and partially owed to his inability to prime retired the corners.

MIDFIELD

Nicolas Raskin - 6/10

Did small incorrect with the shot astatine his feet and kept things ticking implicit successful midfield, but lacking successful inspiration until his withdrawal.

Youri Tielemans - 6/10

Copy and paste.

Kevin De Bruyne - 6/10

Huffed and puffed connected the creativity beforehand contempt being often fouled, but thing was sticking. Delivered transverse aft transverse to nary avail, and astir gave distant a extremity to Saeid Ezatolahi; thankfully Courtois was determination to bail him out.

ATTACK

Alexis Saelemaekers - 6/10

A livewire connected the right-hand side, but without the extremity merchandise to match.

Leandro Trossard - 7/10

Easily Belgium's astir unsafe attacking unit and created 5 chances for Kevin De Bruyne alone, but seldom got himself into scoring positions.

Romelu Lukaku - 4/10

Sacrificed for an other defender aft Ngoy's reddish card, but failed to warrant his promotion to the archetypal XI beforehand. More yellowish cards than shots connected people and crushed duels won combined.

SUBSTITUTES

Timothy Castagne - 7/10

Injected immoderate information connected the right-hand broadside during the last 30 minutes - unfortunate not to assertion a game-winning assist.

Hans Vanaken - 5/10

Couple of shots missed the mark.

Dodi Lukebakio - 6/10

So astir stole each 3 points with a superb curling onslaught astatine the end.

Arthur Theate - 6/10

Ran astir a spot but small other to study on.

Matias Fernandez-Pardo - 6/10

Some bully touches aft coming on, but blazed a promising accidental precocious and wide astatine the death.

Iran subordinate ratings vs. Belgium: Astounding Alireza Beiranvand

GOALKEEPER

Alireza Beiranvand - 10/10

It whitethorn not person been a 15-save Eloy Room performance, but Alireza Beiranvand's show was arsenic impeccable.

Brave, commanding and exhibiting the astir accelerated reflexes, Beiranvand's 7 saves prevented 1.7 goals and made him the latest World Cup shot-stopping superstar.

DEFENCE

Saleh Hardani - 5/10

Shoja Khalilzadeh - 9/10

As exceptional arsenic Beiranvand was, Khalilzadeh played a pivotal relation successful beforehand of his fig one, registering an astronomical 22 antiaircraft contributions to support Belgium astatine bay.

Hossein Kanaani - 7/10

Always successful the close spot astatine the close clip to snuff retired information and managed to trial Courtois with a good onslaught too.

Ali Nemati - 7/10

Ehsan Hajsafi - 6/10

Incredibly speedy reasoning to gaffe successful Mehdi Taremi from a speedy escaped kick, lone for the offside emblem to contradict him a superb assist. Was different mostly anonymous.

MIDFIELD

Ramin Rezaeian - 6/10

Saman Ghoddos - 6/10

Saeid Ezatolahi - 6/10

Robbed De Bruyne of possession and fto alert with a decent long-range shot, but Courtois was adjacent to it.

Mohammad Mohebi - 5/10

ATTACK

Mehdi Taremi - 6/10

A astute crook and decorativeness from Hajsafi's escaped kick, adjacent if helium had gone a whisker excessively early. Was alert to Ngoy's mistake and forced the reddish card-worthy situation from the centre-back.

SUBSTITUTES

Alireza Jahanbakhsh - 6/10

Sent a promising changeable wide instantly aft coming on.

Milad Mohammadi - 6/10

Mahdi Torabi - 6/10

Shahriar Moghanlou - 6/10

Amirhossein Hosseinzadeh - N/A