In the early morning of January 28, Beijing time, the 7th round of the Round of 12 ended a match, and the Syrian men's football team played against the United Arab Emirates men's football team away. In the end, the UAE team won 3-0 at home, giving Syria seven consecutive rounds of no wins, while making the South Korean team unable to qualify for the World Cup three rounds in advance.
At present, Iran and South Korea are firmly in the top two of the group, and the other four teams compete for the third place in the group, so the uae and Syria team has become a six-point battle, the UAE team has accumulated 6 points in 6 rounds, ranking third, and syria has 2 points in 6 rounds, ranking at the bottom.
In the latest edition of FIFA's world rankings, the UAE team ranks 69th, Asia 7th, Syria ranks 86th and Asia 12th.
In the first half, the two teams attacked and defended each other, and the match formed a confrontation, and the UAE team, which was sitting at home, took the lead in scoring. In the 42nd minute, Cayo scored to help the UAE break the deadlock 1-0. In the 69th minute of the second half, Ghazani scored and the UAE extended the score 2-0, scoring another goal in the last minute to lead 3-0. In the last moment, the Syrian team counterattacked wildly, still unable to change the backward situation, and finally lost 0-3.
After the victory, the UAE team reached 9 points, continuing to rank third in the group, while leaving Lebanon by 4 points, 5 points ahead of Iraq and 7 points ahead of Syria, occupying the initiative in the competition for play-off qualification.
In addition, the UAE team made it impossible for South Korea to qualify for the World Cup three rounds earlier. After this round, the South Korean team is 8 points ahead of the UAE team, only 3 rounds of group stage remaining, the fastest next round can lock the top two in the group, south Korea will be from the world cup into the countdown, will be 10 consecutive times to participate in the World Cup, a new Asian record.
The Syrian team that lost the game, 7 rounds to achieve 2 draws and 5 losses, accumulated 2 points continue to fall to the bottom of the group, the qualifying situation is more and more hanging, and the fastest as the national football team The next round did not qualify for the World Cup, from the performance and points points points, the Syrian team is even worse.