Head-to-Head
• Argentina and Iran have met once before at the World Championships. In 1998, Argentina won 3-0 in the first round.
• These nations also met at the 2011 World Cup in which Iran won 3-2.
• Argentina have faced AVC countries 16 times at the World Championships, winning 13 of these matches, including 3-0 against Australia in the first group stage.
Argentina
• Argentina can lose three World Championship matches in a row for the first time since 2002-2006.
• They have already lost as many matches this World Championship as four years ago (3).
• Argentina have not had to play a five-set match in their last 15 at the World Championship.
Iran
• Iran can break their record of successive World Championship victories. They have won their last three now, which equals their record from 1970.
• Their only defeat in their last six World Championship matches was against France in the first group stage (3-1).
• Iran have played CSV countries three times before at the World Championships and only won the first time (3-0 against Venezuela in 1970). They lost 3-0 against Argentina in 1998 and lost 3-1 against Venezuela in 2006.