The Qatar Asian Cup has entered the stage of competition for semi-final places, and in the three quarterfinals that have ended, the South Korean team, Jordan and Iran each defeated their opponents to advance, and the host Qatar in the same group as the national football team in the group stage appeared in the last semi-final match to face Uzbekistan, although Qatar is the defending champion of the Asian Cup, and the world ranking is also 10 places higher than Uzbekistan, but the last 2 meetings between the two teams, Qatar has lost, whether this game can take revenge with the advantage of home and keep the hope of defending the title, it has become the biggest highlight of this game! After the start of the game, Qatar at home took the lead in scoring, but Uzbekistan quickly equalized in the second half, and after a hard fight in extra time, the game entered a penalty shootout, and finally Qatar relied on the excellent performance of the goalkeeper to advance to the semifinals of the Asian Cup 4-3!
This match once again confirmed the truth of the football world championship without a name, in a winner-win knockout game, Qatar and Uzbekistan both put more energy into the defensive end, and coincidentally chose to catch the opponent's mistakes to create scoring opportunities, which also caused the offensive threat of both teams to not be very big.
However, in contrast, Qatar, which has the home advantage, played more actively, controlled the ball more at their feet as soon as it came up, and formed a counterattack opportunity after breaking the ball in front of the court in the 4th minute, but unfortunately offside, 6 minutes later, the host completed a very threatening attack, Afif received a pass from a teammate on the left side of the penalty area, and volleyed directly from a small angle, but did not break through the opponent's goalkeeper's ten fingers.
But Qatar's attack still paid off in the 26th minute, Haydos received a wonderful heel pass from his teammates on the right side, and penetrated into the hinterland of Uzbekistan along the bottom line.
Uzbekistan then launched a counterattack, in the 36th minute, they broke through the Qatari defense on the left, and then sent a cross, found the back point to follow up Turgonboyev, fortunately, the defenders were in place in time, with a sliding tackle, Turgunboyev's shot blocked the bottom line, before the end of the half, Qatar's front set-piece, also made the away team shocked into a cold sweat, relying on the goalkeeper's brave save, Uzbekistan did not let the point difference be further widened, with 0-1 back to the locker room.
After returning to the game, Uzbekistan had no other choice but to strengthen the attack, strive to tie the score as soon as possible, a more active style of play, and soon paid off, in the 59th minute Hamrobekov took the ball into the host penalty area, with a high-quality left-footed volley, the score was chased to 1 draw, and the next regular time and extra time, both sides of the offensive side did not make achievements, and the game also entered a cruel penalty shootout.
Penalty shootout, Uzbekistan takes the first penalty:
First round: Shuku, Afif, Qatar 2-2;
Second round: Ashurmatov misses, Ali misses, Qatar 2-2;
Third round: Uma, Mahdi misses, Qatar 2-3;
Fourth round: Abdullahmatov misses, Blake hits, Qatar 3-3;
Fifth round: Masharipov missed, Miguel hit, Qatar advanced 4-3!
With the end of this game, the top four of this Asian Cup have all been produced, the first half of the South Korean team against Jordan, the second half of Iran against Qatar, which two teams can meet in the finals, let's wait and see!