In preparation for the upcoming World Cup in Qatar, a FIFA Arabian Cup was held in Qatar in early December, and the group stage has now ended and produced the final four, including Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia and host Qatar. And we can see that there is only one Asian country in this list of four, Qatar, and it can be said that this former national football rival has now regained its former strong strength and become the card of Asian football.
In this Arab Cup, since it is the first time to be held, FIFA has stipulated that Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates and Syria are members who directly enter the group stage. In the end, Oman, Lebanon, Jordan, Bahrain, Mauritania, Palestine and Sudan were decided through the qualifiers, and they were divided into four groups to compete.
The host Qatar eventually became the only Asian country to enter the semi-finals, and the opponent they faced would be Algeria, although the opponent only sent a second team, but given the current lack of Asian football, Qatar can go to this step can be said to be very powerful.
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Looking back on their journey, it can be said that Qatar has come all the way through the barriers! In the first game of the group stage, it faced the weak Bahrain with a small 1-0 victory, and the second match faced Oman, the opponent of the national football team's round of 12, reversed the opponent with two goals after being scored by the opponent first, and then in the case of two consecutive wins that had been qualified early, Qatar faced the last opponent, Iraq, the winner of the 07 Asian Cup, 3:0. In the knockout rounds, facing their sworn enemies, the UAE, they staged a 5-goal good play at half-time and directly humiliated their opponents to tell them whose turf it was.
In fact, in the 2018 World Cup qualifiers and the national football team when Qatar is still only a similar level of the national football team, I don't know if you remember the last 2:0 Qatar in the top 40 round of 2:0 thrilling promotion to the round of 12, and then the top 12 and the national football team in the same group of their 1 draw and a loss did not get a bargain. And then they reformed in one fell swoop to defeat Japan in the 2019 Asian Cup to win the Asian Cup to amaze the world, and after the successful bid for the World Cup, they were actively communicating with other countries on various continents, and they participated as invited guests at last year's Central and North American Gold Cup and this European World Cup qualifier.