Qatar successfully defended its title, and the national football team in this Asian Cup "only lost to the championship"

According to CCTV News, on February 10, local time, in the final of the 2023 Qatar Men's Asian Cup, the Qatar team defeated the Jordan team 3-1 and won the Asian Cup again after the 2019 Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates, which made the Qatar team the fifth team in the history of the Asian Cup to complete the defense of the title.

Qatar successfully defended its title (Image source: Asian Cup official account)

In this game, the referee, assistant referee and video assistant referee are all from China, and this is the first time that the Chinese referee team has refereed the Asian Cup final. Among them, referee Ma Ning awarded three penalties to the Qatar team in the game, and player Afif completed a "hat trick" with three penalties to seal the victory for the team.

Qatar has won the Asian Cup for the second time in a row, equaling South Korea for the most Asian Cup titles, Iran and Saudi Arabia have both won the Asian Cup three times, while Japan has won the championship four times.

Chinese men's football team (Photo source: Xinhua News Agency)

It is worth mentioning that although the Chinese men's football team was out of the group stage, judging from the results, the national football team drew Tajikistan and Lebanon in the first two games, and lost 0-1 to Qatar in the third game. In other words, the national football team in this Asian Cup "only lost to the champion of this Asian Cup".

Of course, the match between the national football team and the Qatar team is inseparable from the latter's large-scale substitution. Objectively speaking, the Chinese men's football team, currently ranked 79th, still has a lot of room for improvement, and there is still room for improvement in the two World Cup qualifiers against Singapore in March.

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(Source: Jimu News)