In the early morning of January 30, the fourth quarterfinal of the Asian Cup was held, with Qatar facing Palestine. The gap in strength between the two sides is still relatively obvious. As the host, Qatar won three consecutive victories in Group A and advanced to the top spot! Palestine was lucky to advance to Group C with four points, squeezing out the Hong Kong team.
Qatar achieved 2 consecutive wins in the first 2 games of the group stage and locked the top qualification, and the final game of the group stage was a bit of a release, with a significant change of starters, and even the goalkeeper was sent to the third goalkeeper. Even so, the national football team failed to take advantage of the opportunity and failed to score in the first 65 minutes. Qatar sent an absolute core like Haydos and Afif to easily score and eventually win.
Speaking of this knockout match, in the 37th minute, Palestine actually scored the first goal! Ravi made a mistake in the midfield return pass, and after Dabagh stealed, in the face of two defenders, he calmly made a move to get rid of it, and shot low into the far corner of the net, 1-0! Before the end of the half, Afif took a corner kick, and Haydos pushed it into the net in the penalty area, and the score came to 1-1! Such a plot was staged again, or the two cores were directly connected! In the 48th minute, Ali was tackled, and the referee from China's whistle Ma Ning awarded a penalty! Afif made it overnight, and the score came to 2-1! Qatar finally advanced to the round of eight.
In the next knockout match, Jordan reversed Iraq 3-2 and eliminated the top spot in Group D! Jordan achieved a comeback with an amazing performance of scoring two goals in three consecutive minutes in the 95th and 97th minutes. Perhaps the turning point of this game came in the 77th minute, when Iraqi goal hero Hussein received a second yellow card for a celebratory action, two yellows turned into one red, and was sent out! Iranian referee Fagani (national football fans will never forget, in the 2018 U23 Asian Cup, that snowy day, when the national football team could qualify if it won the game, was outrageously punished by Fagani and unfortunately lost out), the same celebration in the first half was fine, and the yellow card was issued in the second half, and the penalty scale was not uniform. It all starts with imitating the opponent. Some fans even complained, but they didn't expect the referee to rewrite the course of the game.
4 seats were released in the top 8, Jordan against Tajikistan, Australia and Qatar waited for their opponents.