In the early morning of January 30, the Asian Cup continued with the quarterfinals, Jordan vs. Iraq. In the previous final game of the group stage, Jordan chose not to win when it could win, in order to avoid stronger opponents in the subsequent knockout rounds. Starting with the final group stage, Jordan lost 1-0 to Bahrain in the final round, but they had enough points to finish third in the group. If Jordan does not lose to Bahrain, it will face Japan in the quarter-finals, and it is clear that they do not want to meet the biggest favorite to win the championship. Of course, the same thinking as Jordan is the South Korean men's football team, they finally hoped to lock up the top spot in the group, but they also released the water in the final group stage, and deliberately conceded a goal at the last moment, deliberately drawing 3-3 with Malaysia.
In this knockout match, Jordan scored in the last minute of the first half to take a 1-0 lead! After that, Iraq scored two goals in a row in the 68th and 76th minutes respectively to achieve a 2-1 lead. Seeing that Jordan was about to be out of the game, they staged a miraculous drama and completed a shocking reversal! In the fifth minute of stoppage time, Tamari's low shot was saved, and Alarab made up for the net, and the score came to 2-2! In the 97th minute, Jordan was even more terrifying, and Nizar scored a stunner into the net, and the score came to 3-2! Who would have thought that in stoppage time, he scored two goals in a row to complete a 3-2 reversal.
With a wave of magic manipulation by the Jordanian team, they finally counterattacked and advanced to the top 8, and the next opponent was also very easy, that is, Tajikistan, the weak team in the group of the national football team. Tajikistan was lucky to qualify as second in the group in their first Asian Cup and eliminated the UAE on penalties in the first knockout game.
In this case, Iraq is a bit awkward. You must know that in the group stage, they also beat the Japanese team in an upset, giving the first defeat to the favorites to win the championship, and qualified for the top spot in Group D with three consecutive wins, but there was an accident in the knockout round. It's really an inscrutable Asian Cup.