The 13th place in Asia created a miracle and overthrew South Korea to enter the final, but the ranking was lower than that of the national football team
In the expectation of countless fans, the semifinals of the Asian Cup officially began, and in the first game, the South Korean team, the favorite to win the championship, ushered in the dark horse Jordan team. However, no one expected that the South Korean team, which has many stars, overturned in this game! The Jordan team defeated the South Korean team 2-0 and miraculously entered the final of the Asian Cup.
In the latest FIFA rankings, South Korea is ranked 23rd and 3rd in Asia. Jordan, on the other hand, is only 87th and 13th in Asia, and the huge gap between the two teams can be seen in the rankings. It is worth mentioning that the latest ranking of the Chinese men's football team is 79th, which is even higher than Jordan. However, the Jordanian team has been soaring in this Asian Cup, while the Chinese team was eliminated after the group stage!
In this game, the South Korean team's number one central defender, Kim Min-jae, was suspended because of the accumulation of yellow cards, and his absence also made the South Korean team's defense completely blown up by the opponent! In the first half of the game, the Jordanian team, which was at a disadvantage, did not put on an iron bucket formation as soon as everyone thought, but made a decisive attack and tried to fight against the South Korean team. Unfortunately, they met the excellent South Korean goalkeeper Cho Hyun-woo, who made four good saves in the first half to keep the goal clean and the South Korean team was able to return to the dressing room with a 0-0 scoreline.
Yibian fought again, and the South Korean team still did not escape the fate of conceding the goal. In the 53rd minute, the South Korean team made a mistake in the backfield pass, and the Jordan team broke the ball and launched a counterattack directly, Tamari cleverly distributed the ball to his teammates in the penalty area, and the follow-up Neimat scored lightly in the face of the goalkeeper, helping the Jordan team take the lead in breaking the deadlock and taking the lead in the score. The South Korean team, which was behind in the score, made substitutions one after another to try to launch a counterattack, but the big pressure also made their defensive line more exposed.
In the 66th minute, the Jordan team made a comeback, Tamari staged a wonderful thousand-mile walk, he alone from the midfield with the ball directly into the South Korean team's penalty area, after shaking off the shooting angle, Tamari directly shot into the far corner to break the goal, helping the Jordan team to expand the score to 2-0, the initiative to win, firmly in their own hands! After the two-goal lead, the Jordanian team began to retreat in an all-round way, and in the face of the opponent's "bus", the South Korean team could not find a good way to break the goal. They couldn't wait for a goal until the end of the game, and in the end, Jordan won 2-0 against South Korea, and after reaching the semi-finals of the Asian Cup for the first time, they went one step further and reached the final of the Asian Cup!
I wonder if the Jordanians will be able to become the 10th team to lift the Asian Cup?