The birth of the round of 16 of the Asian Cup: South Korea was drawn to avoid Japan, and the national football team set the worst record +2 big shame

With the dust officially settled on the matches of Group E and Group F, the group stage of this Asian Cup has officially ended, and all 16 knockout spots have been confirmed. In the final round of the group stage, South Korea was drawn 3:3 by Malaysia, successfully avoiding the Japanese team, while Palestine, Jordan, and Indonesia, which are lower than the national football ranking, have qualified one after another.

The final round of the group stage will be interesting to see which team will meet the favourites Japan in the first round of the knockout round, as Japan lost the second group game and missed out on top of the group, even if Japan beat Indonesia in the final round, they can only finish second in the group. In the second round of Group D, Japan's first round opponent will be the first in Group E, for which Jordan and South Korea, which occupied the top two in Group E before the game, do not want to be the first in the group;

Interestingly, Klinsmann's expression was not so happy when Son Heung-min took the lead for South Korea for the second time, and when Malaysia finished the equaliser, Klinsmann smiled contentedly. In the other game, Jordan was even more neat, losing 0:1 to Bahrain, although it fell to the third place in the group, but Jordan was still the third place in the group with the best results of the four, and Bahrain was directly pushed to the top of the group, thus becoming Japan's first opponent in the knockout round.

South Korea's opponents in the knockout round are Thailand in Group F, and in the final round of the group stage, Thailand and Saudi Arabia drew and qualified for the second place in the group, while Oman and Tajikistan also drew in the same group, and the two sides went out together. In this way, the round of 16 of this Asian Cup is officially determined, and the situation is also settled.

Round of 16 of the 2023 Qatar Asian Cup

Group A: Qatar, Tajikistan

Group B: Australia, Uzbekistan, Syria

Group C: Iran, United Arab Emirates, Palestine

Group D: Iraq, Japan, Indonesia

Group E: Bahrain, Republic of Korea, Jordan

Group F: Saudi Arabia, Thailand

Upper Half District

January 28 19:30 Australia vs Indonesia

January 29 00:00 Tajikistan vs United Arab Emirates

January 29 19:30 Iraq vs Jordan

January 31 00:00 Saudi Arabia vs South Korea

Lower Half Ward

January 30 00:00 Qatar vs Palestine

January 30 19:30 Uzbekistan vs Thailand

January 31 19:30 Bahrain vs Japan

February 1 00:00 Iran vs Syria

As for the national football team, it has created the worst result in the Asian Cup, the national football team has only scored 2 points in 3 games, which is the worst group third among the 6 groups in this Asian Cup, and the final ranking of the national football team in this Asian Cup has also been determined to be 18th, which is also the lowest ranking in the history of the National Football Asian Cup. It is worth mentioning that this Asian Cup is the second Asian Cup with 24 teams, the first being the 2019 Asian Cup, when the national football team lost 0-3 to Iran in the quarterfinals and finally ranked 6th. Of the 24 teams in the Asian Cup, only China in Group A and India in Group B failed to score, and these two countries happen to be the two most populous countries on the planet, with a combined population of 2.8 billion.