Asian Cup Top 4 released! The favorite to win the championship was killed by Zero Degree Angle, and the two major bitter masters of the Chinese men's football team were all out
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The quarterfinals of the U17 men's Asian Cup are all over, and the final match between Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan has come to an end. After 90 minutes of fighting, Saudi Arabia, as the favorite to win the championship, lost 0-2 to Uzbekistan and missed the semifinals, breaking out a small upset.
In the history of the Asian Junior Championship, Japan has won the title three times, the most won in Asia, and Saudi Arabia has won the championship twice. There is a cold knowledge that the Chinese team has also won the Asian Youth Championship twice, the last time in 2004, when the national junior team had players such as Wang Dalei and Yang Xu. However, in this Asian Junior Tournament, the Chinese team fell into the group of death, being forced to draw 1-1 by Tajikistan in the first game, losing 3-5 to Australia in the second game, and defeating Saudi Arabia 0-3 in the final round of life and death matches, and the goal difference was bottom.
And the reason why the Saudi team is seen as the favorite to win the title is because they played so well in the group stage. In the three games of the group stage, the Saudi team slammed 7 goals and did not concede a single goal, and the back line played very steadily. Against the Chinese team, Saudi Arabia even rotated a large number of substitutes, still firmly controlling the situation, allowing us to see the gap between Chinese football and the top Asian teams. Uzbekistan, on the other hand, won only 1-0 against India and Vietnam in the group stage, and they really did not have an advantage compared to Saudi Arabia. However, football is round.
In the first half, Saudi Arabia had a penalty opportunity in the 18th minute, but Nawaf's penalty was saved by Uzbekistan goalkeeper Sobirov, and the subsequent follow-up shot was blocked, and the Saudi team missed the best scoring opportunity. For most of the time since then, the Saudi team has the upper hand, but it has always been scoreless. Just when everyone thought the two sides were going into extra time, the game came to a climax in the final 15 minutes.
First, in the 80th minute, Uzbekistan's Tarimov broke through along the left line, and the ball was almost out of the line. However, without any angle of shooting, the ball slipped into the goal between the legs of the Saudi goalkeeper and Uzbekistan took the lead. Just five minutes later, Uzbekistan won a corner kick, the Saudi team leaked in the middle, and Abdullayev almost kicked the ball into the goal with a shuttlecock motion. In this way, Uzbekistan was passive in the whole game, with an efficient attack, and beat the favorite Saudi Arabia with two goals in 5 minutes.
After this match, all the four finals of the U17 Asian Cup were produced. In the first three quarterfinals, Iran and Yemen played for 120 minutes, and in the end, Iran beat Yemen 4-2 on penalties, almost breaking out. South Korea continued to storm the junior competition, beating Thailand 4-1 to advance to the semi-finals. Japan beat Australia 3-1. As a result, Iran, South Korea, Japan and Uzbekistan became the top four teams, and they joined hands to qualify for the World Junior Championship, while the two major opponents of the Under-17 national team, Australia and Saudi Arabia, were all out. The semi-final matches are Iran vs Japan and South Korea vs Uzbekistan.