1-1, 3-1! The two favorites of the Asian Cup meet, the peak of 2.8 billion duel, CCTV5 live broadcast
The 2024 Qatar Asian Cup will reach the quarterfinals, with the host Qatar facing Uzbekistan and the two dark horse teams, Jordan and Tajikistan. The other two 1/4 finals will be staged against each other, Beijing time on February 3 at 19:30 in prime time, in the Asian Cup 1/4 finals, the current Asia's No. 1 Japan and Asia's No. 2 Iranian team met in a narrow way, this peak showdown will be broadcast live by CCTV, and fans can also watch the game in prime time, which is a World Cup-level competition.
Before the start of this Asian Cup, the Japanese team is recognized as the biggest favorite to win the championship, and the Japanese team is quite ideal, with Iraq, Vietnam and Indonesia in Group D, and there are no traditional Asian powerhouses in the same group. But the Japanese team may not pay enough attention to the Asian Cup, in the first round of the group stage against the Southeast Asian fish belly team Vietnam, the Japanese team conceded two goals in a row with the first goal to be overtaken by Vietnam, but fortunately, the strength of the Japanese team is too strong, and finally won a thrilling victory over the Vietnamese team with a score of 4-2.
In the first round, the Japanese team's defense conceded 2 goals, but Mori Boichi obviously did not pay enough attention, and in the second round against the former Asian Cup champion Iraq, the shortcomings of the Japanese team's defense were exposed, Iraq used a long pass to rush and hang, and Hussein scored two headers in a row, and the Japanese team finally lost the game 1-2, and the 10-game winning streak in all competitions was ended. The defeat allowed Japan to relinquish top spot in the group. In the final round of the group stage against Indonesia, Japan conceded again before the end of the game, and the defense of the group stage was broken, which surprised the fans.
In the 1/8 finals, the Japanese team played against Bahrain, the leader of Group E, and the Japanese team scored three goals in a row by Doan Kazuri, Kubo Kenei and Ueda Kiyo, but the low-level mistake of goalkeeper Suzuki Ayaki once again made the Japanese team's defense fail, and finally the Japanese team defeated Bahrain with a score of 3-1 to advance to the quarterfinals.
Iran is ranked 21st in the world, second only to Japan in Asia. Iran is a traditional powerhouse in Asia, having won three consecutive Asian Cup titles and is also a regular in the World Cup. In this Asian Cup, the Iranian team's signing luck is also very good, and the United Arab Emirates, Palestine, Hong Kong, China team is in Group C, the Iranian team won all three games in the group stage, and advanced to the knockout round as the first in the group.
In the first round of the knockout round, Iran faced Syria, which is also a West Asian team, encountered a huge test, originally this was a game without suspense, but the game process shocked Iran in a cold sweat, Taremi opened the scoring in the first half, the situation was calm, but the situation changed abruptly in the second half, first the Iranian goalkeeper tripped Syria Sabagh's single goal and was awarded a penalty, Kribin equalized with a penalty, Taremi was sent off in stoppage time, Iran played one less person to drag the score into the penalty shootout, and finally passed the 5-3 risk, but the team's attacking core Taremi will miss the 1 with Japan due to a red card/4 finals.