The Australian women's team will play against the Thai women's team on January 27, 2022, and this match will determine whether the Iranian women's team in Group A can qualify. In Group A, the Iranian women's football team first drew 0-0 with the Indian women's football team, then lost 0-7 to the Chinese women's football team, and then lost 5 goals to the Chinese Taipei women's football team, and the total loss of the two games was 12 minus 12 goals, but even so, this team was still not eliminated in theory, and there was still a theoretical possibility of qualifying for the quarterfinals.
Because of the sudden withdrawal of the Indian women's football team, the arrangement of the Asian Cup was disrupted, because the third place in each group also had the opportunity to reach the quarterfinals. The best two of the three groups made the best of the third to reach the quarterfinals. Because the Indian women's football team withdrew from the competition, there was one less team in Group A. Therefore, in order to be fair, the AFC decided to cancel the 0-0 match results of the Indian women's football team and the Iranian women's football team, and then adjusted the points for the B and C groups, that is, the teams in these two groups and the results of the fourth place match with the group will not be included in the points.
Because of this rule change, the points of the Thai women's football team are directly zeroed from 3 points, and her goal difference is negative one, so against the Australian women's football team, if the Thai women's football team loses 12 goals, then it is the Iranian women's football team that enters the quarterfinals. It's magical. From the perspective of the strength of both sides, in fact, the Australian women's football team does not have the strength to win 12 goals of the Thai women's football team, and the next game of the Australian women's football team will be the Korean women's football team and the Australian women's football team to fight the Korean and Australian women's football team, so the Australian women's football team will definitely save strength, so they cannot win a few goals of the Thai women's football team. They must ensure that they have enough energy against the South Korean women's football team. Therefore, in the end, it is the Thai women's football team that can smoothly enter the quarterfinals.
In fact, the change of this rule is also to make the ranking of 5-8 places more fair. Because the Asian women's football team has won a total of 6+2 places in the Women's World Cup, the top 6 will directly enter the main tournament of the World Cup women's football team, while the 7th and 8th places will also play play-offs with teams from other continents. So after the eight-in-four match, this 5-8 ranking is important. The ranking of 5-8 places will count the points for the group stage. So it's fair to remove the points from group B and C to play fourth. I don't know if you understand it.
If the Chinese Taipei women's football team and the Thai women's football team do not enter the final four, then the Chinese Taipei women's football team is also ranked higher than the Thai women's football team, because after canceling the fourth place result, the Chinese Taipei women's football team in the group stage is 3 points, while the Thai women's football team is zero points. If there is no cancellation with the fourth place result. Thai women's football is also 3 points, which is extremely unfair to the Chinese Taipei women's football team. Explain it this way, you will understand it!
The matchups in the third round are: Australia Women's Football Team - Thailand Women's Football Team, Japan Women's Football Team - South Korea Women's Football Team, Philippine Women's Football Team - Indonesia Women's Football Team, Vietnam Women's Football Team - Myanmar Women's Football Team (the winner will play against China Women's Football Team in the eight-in-four match). The best match will definitely be the strong dialogue between the Korean and Japanese women's football teams, and the winner will directly avoid the Australian women's football team. The Chinese women's football fans are most concerned about the Vietnam women's football - Myanmar women's football match, and hope that the Myanmar women's football team can beat the Vietnam women's football team, the winner will play against the Chinese women's football team, relatively speaking, Myanmar is easier to deal with.