The U20 Asian Cup group stage comes to an end, with four matches in Groups A and B over, with Uzbekistan, Iraq, Iran and Australia taking the lead in reaching the last eight, and then the Chinese men's football team will rush to qualify and avoid South Korea in order to avoid the top eight and compete for the top spot in the group. However, Syria, one of the Asian bitter masters of the Chinese men's team, continued to lose face, and the final round of life and death battles was again unwinnable, and finally finished bottom with 1 point in 3 games.
In previous years, the Syrian men's national team was at the second-rate level in Asia, and the Chinese men's team was more victorious than defeated, and it was also one of the obstacles for the national football team to attack the World Cup. However, in the past two years, the strength of the Syrian men's football team has declined significantly, and the round of 12 has been reduced to the bottom, and now it is also not performing well in the Asian Youth Championship.
In the first round of the group stage, Syria defeated host Uzbekistan 0-2, and then lost 0-1 to Southeast Asian fish belly Indonesia in the second round, and 2 consecutive defeats accumulated 0 points are on the verge of elimination.
Against old rivals Iraq, Syria suffered a blow shortly after the opening of the game, with a corner kick being broken through the goal, and Syria was behind for a long time thereafter. In the 95th minute, in the final minute of stoppage time, Ramdan scored with a header to make it 1-1 for Syria.
After the group stage, Syria only scored 1 point in 3 games, and finally locked up the bottom of the game and missed the World Youth Championship in advance. Like the Chinese men's team, Syria is also reduced to the third-tier level in Asia, but the pace of decline is too fast.
The Syrian men's football team missed the World Youth Championship in advance, and the Chinese men's football team still has a chance to compete. The victory over Saudi Arabia raised the Chinese men's team to second place in the group with three points, and in the final round they will face the Kyrgyzstan men's team, giving them a rare chance to decide their own fate, but not to draw to qualify, but to win to secure the promotion to the last eight.
Compared with the Vietnamese men's team with 6 points and still out, the Chinese men's team can 100% qualify as long as they get 6 points, no matter what the result of the Japanese men's team and the Saudi men's team, while the Chinese men's team draws or loses, there is also hope to advance to the knockout round, which requires the Japanese men's team to help block the Saudi men's team.
According to the rules of the knockout match, the first in Group C against the second in Group D, the first in Group D against the second in Group C, the current South Korean men's football team basically locks the first place in Group C, if the Chinese men's football team ranks second in Group D, the two teams will meet in the round of 8, the Chinese men's football team has little hope of qualifying for the World Youth Championship, if you can get the first place in Group D, the opponent is the Jordanian men's football team or the Tajikistan men's team, and it is less difficult to break into the semifinals of the U20 Asian Cup.
According to the points situation, as long as the Chinese men's football team wins in the final round, and the Japanese men's team only loses by one goal to the Saudi Arabian men's team, the Chinese men's team can rush to the top of the group and avoid the South Korean men's team after reaching the round of eight.