Carlos Queiroz has accused an Iranian media outlet of helping the England team by revealing his starting line-up.

Sports news website Varsesh 3 published what it predicted would be Queiroz’s Team Melli XI on Monday morning.

That was just hours before the opener against Three Lions kicked off and Iran went on to lose 6-2 at the Khalifa Stadium in Doha.

Queiroz was not best pleased and sarcastically congratulated a reporter at the end of his press huddle following the team’s training session.

He said: “I cannot finish my statement without congratulating Varzesh 3.

“Congratulations. Because you did a good job putting our starting line-up in the press for the morning for the English team, congratulations.

“You are really a great hero, congratulations, good job.”