JEDDAH :Iraq coach Graham Arnold sought to increase the pressure on fellow World Cup hopefuls Saudi Arabia ahead of their clash on Tuesday after leading his team to a 1-0 win over Indonesia in Jeddah on Saturday.

Zidane Iqbal scored the only goal of the game with 14 minutes remaining to maintain Iraqi dreams of a first World Cup appearance since 1986 and set up a winner-takes-all meeting with Herve Renard's team.

Both sides go into the final game in Group B of Asia's fourth round of preliminaries with three points and victory for either side would secure automatic qualification for the expanded 48-team finals in North America.

"It's the dream for the players to go to the World Cup," said Arnold, who guided his native Australia to the 2022 tournament in Qatar.

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