Group A has a team that reproduces the 2 tragedies of the national football team, this team is the former Asian champion Iraq, as a west Asian powerhouse, Iraq's world ranking is similar to the national football team, Iraq is 75th in the world, the national football team is 74th in the world, Iraq's opponent Lebanon in this round and the opponent of the national football team in this round vietnam are also ranked equally, Lebanon is ranked 95th in the world, First of all, Iraq reproduced the tragedy of the national football team in the 8 rounds of the Asian quarterfinals of the World Preliminary Tournament with only 5 points, and then reproduced the tragedy of the national football team losing points in this round, although Iraq did not lose, but it was not victorious to break the big cold, and played Lebanon 1-1.
Statistics show that Iraq, which won the Asian Cup in 2007, still won 0 wins after 8 rounds of the 8 rounds of the Asian Round of 12 in this World Preliminary Tournament, and the results fell in an avalanche, with 8 matches successively 0-0 South Korea, 0-3 Iran, 0-0 Lebanon, 2-2 UAE, 1-1 Syria, 0-3 South Korea, 0-1 Iran, and 1-1 Lebanon.
Due to the emergence of 5 draws, Iraq's situation in the group table is much better than the national football team, there is still a chance to qualify as the third place in the group to participate in the play-offs, the third place uae only has 9 points, which means that the 5-point Iraq's last 2 rounds of 2 consecutive wins, may still counterattack, provided that the UAE loses 2 consecutive games, while the 6-point Lebanon does not have 2 consecutive wins, the first to last in group B is Syria, only 2 points, they are the only Group A team that has been out of the group 2 rounds in advance, south Korea and Iran have locked in the top two of the group and directly qualified.
According to last night's match data, Iraq only had 39% of the ball, but the attack was stronger, compared with Lebanon's shots of 17-11, shooting positive ratio of 3-4, helpless to win a 1-1 draw. In the 38th minute of the match, Iraq scored first, Hassan Saeed got rid of the three-man defense and passed the ball directly, and Ayman Hussein, who inserted into the box, directly shot at the goal, Iraq 1-0 Lebanon.
In the 45th minute of the match, Lebanon created chaos in the Iraqi penalty area with a high ball, and Maher Zabla took advantage of the chaos to break the goal and help Lebanon to tie the score 1-1. In the 82nd minute of the match, the Iraqi defender was suspected of handball in the penalty area, but the referee did not say, and finally the two teams maintained a 1-1 score until the end of the game. According to the schedule, Iraq's opponents in the last two rounds are the United Arab Emirates and Syria, with a chance to beat the third place with two consecutive wins!