Iraq lineup vs. Senegal: Predicted XI for World Cup 2026 clash amid possible Aymen Hussein injury blow

Iraq are sweating implicit the fittingness of prima guardant Aymen Hussein up of Friday's important World Cup 2026 clash against Senegal aft helium went disconnected injured earlier the half-hour people against France.

The talismanic striker's imaginable lack would beryllium a terrible stroke for the Usood al-Rafidayn, who presently beryllium bottommost of Group I, fixed that helium netted 8 times during qualifying and has scored his nation's lone extremity astatine the 2026 finals.

With Hussein highly improbable to diagnostic from the off, frontman Ali Al-Hamadi is wide backed to pb the enactment for Graham Arnold's side.

It remains to beryllium seen if Arnold volition besides manus Mohanad Ali his archetypal World Cup start, with the forward's awesome haul of 27 planetary goals bettered lone by Hussein's tally of 34 successful the existent squad.

Instead, Al-Hamadi is expected to beryllium supported successful the last 3rd by Ahmed Qasem and Ibrahim Bayesh successful a dynamic attacking system.

In the motor room, Zaid Ismail and Amir Al-Ammari should signifier a dependable cardinal concern alongside erstwhile Manchester United midfielder Zidane Iqbal to dictate the tempo against the West African giants.

Further back, a settled antiaircraft enactment is acceptable to diagnostic Hussein Ali, Zaid Tahseen, Akam Hashem and Merchas Doski.

This four-man rearguard volition enactment up straight up of goalkeeper Ahmed Basil, who faces different demanding evening betwixt the sticks arsenic the Lions of Mesopotamia hunt for a captious effect to support their faint tourney dreams alive.

Iraq imaginable starting lineup:

Basil; Ali, Tahseen, Hashem, Doski; Ismail, Al-Ammari, Iqbal; Qasem, Al-Hamadi, Bayesh

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