The men's Asian Cup has now produced a place in the quarterfinals, and in eight games, two dark horse teams were born, two of which were former champions, who were eliminated by Jordan in Iraq, and Saudi Arabia was finally drawn by South Korea, and lost penalties, all of which were good games to lose.
Coach Mancini's adjustment is incomprehensible, although the half-time substitutions have miraculous results, but the substitutions were used up early, completely gave up the midfield buffer, and directly let the opponent surround the attack, the team's two frontfield core Shehri and Salim were all replaced early, it was a failure, the turtle defense exhausted all the physical strength of the midfield and backfield, after being drawn, the team's morale was gone, if it wasn't for the goalkeeper's outstanding performance, the goal would have been lost, Saudi Arabia regardless of personal ability, foot technology, The teamwork was completely true, and it was possible to defeat South Korea with real strength.
With Iran's elimination of Syria to advance, the quarterfinals and quarter-finals of this Asian Cup have all been announced:
South Korea vs Australia
Jordan vs Tajikistan
Uzbekistan vs Qatar
Japan vs Iro
Iran defeated Syria on penalties, and all the quarterfinals of this Asian Cup were produced. Three West Asian teams, two East Asian teams, two Central Asian teams and one Australia. In the final final, the showdown between Japan and South Korea is still possible.
Even if the "shadow" of the sexual assault scandal loomed over the main right winger Jun Ito before the game, and even if goalkeeper Ayaka Suzuki continued his nightmare performance of giving gifts per game, the Japanese team still made up for it with the goals of Ritsu Doyasu and Kenei Kubo and the general credit of Kiyo Ueda.
Japan easily eliminated Bahrain 3-1 to reach the quarter-finals for the ninth consecutive time, and compared to South Korea and Iran, who also suffered from penalty shoot-outs, their promotion was too easy - the top favourites were not for nothing.
The official push of the Asian Cup announced the best 11-man team in the 1/8 finals, of which three players of the Japanese team, Kenei Kubo, Kiyo Ueda and Seiya Eachuma were selected, and the "beauty goalkeeper" Zhao Hyun-woo, who made two saves in the penalty shootout, was also among them.
Here are the details:
Goalkeeper: Cho Hyun-woo (South Korea)
Defenders: Shoiya Umuma (Japan), Sutar (Australia), Safi (Iran)
Midfielders: Boyle (Australia), Kenei Kubo (Japan), Subachol (Thailand), Aziz Beck Turgang Hirove (Uzbekistan)
Forwards: Afif (Qatar), Kiyo Ueda (Japan), Naimat (Jordan)
According to domestic media sources, although the new head coach of the national football team is basically confirmed to be a foreign coach, the Chinese coach will still play an important role.
The change of coach is tight and has certain risks, so there is a high probability that the Chinese coaches Zheng Zhi and Chen Tao when Jankovic was in charge will stay, which can not only help the new coach enter the role as soon as possible, but also stabilize the morale of the army.
At present, Choi Kang-hee, Scolari, Ivankovic, Jodi, Xu Zhengyuan and other coaches with Super League resumes will be the target candidates of the Football Association.