In the early morning of March 27, Beijing time, in the second phase of Group G of the World Preliminary Asian Region, the Uzbekistan men's football team defeated the Hong Kong, China men's football team 3-0 at home, and the Iranian men's football team defeated Turkmenistan 1-0 away, Uzbekistan and Iran completed the double kill at the same time, and led by 9 points at the same time, and advanced to the round of 18 together in two rounds in advance.
In recent years, Uzbekistan has grown in strength, thanks to the rise of its youth training force, coupled with the increase in the number of Asian places to 8.5, and it is more likely to enter the World Cup. With the outstanding performance of the World Preliminary Tournament and the Asian Cup, Uzbekistan has risen to 66th in the world ranking, and has already left the national football team 22nd.
In the first 3 rounds, Uzbekistan won 2 and drew 1 and accumulated 7 points, and the qualifying situation was very good, Hong Kong, China fell to the bottom with 1 draw and 2 losses and 1 point, and was eliminated in advance due to 6 points behind the top two in the group.
In the face of this life-and-death battle, Hong Kong, China did not create a miracle, and there was no chance at all.
In the 20th minute of the first half, Shomurodov scored to give Uzbekistan a 1-0 lead. In the 63rd minute of the second half, Yerkinov expanded the score, and in the 70th minute, Urunov sealed the victory, and finally Uzbekistan defeated Hong Kong, China 3-0.
In the other match in the same group, the Iranian men's football team played the Turkmenistan men's football team at home, and the two teams had already met once five days ago, when Iran beat Turkmenistan 5-0 away.
In this game, Iran played away, did not give a chance in the face of Turkmenistan's counterattack, and relied on a goal in first-half stoppage time, Gaedi broke the deadlock, and finally won 1-0, home and away against Turkmenistan.
In the latest standings, Iran and Uzbekistan have 10 points, continue to rank first and second in the group, and at the same time throw off Turkmenistan and Hong Kong, China behind them 9 points, and lock the top two in the group in 2 rounds in advance with only 2 rounds left, and join hands to advance to the round of 18 stage, which also makes this group the most suspenseless.
Coming out of the game two rounds ahead of schedule is indeed a big blow to Hong Kong, China, and it still failed to complete the breakthrough. In fact, an hour ago, there was a Chinese team out of the game in advance, that is, Chinese Taipei, which lost 1-5 away to Kyrgyzstan, suffered 4 consecutive defeats in the opening game and conceded 11 goals, accumulated 0 points to continue to be at the bottom, 9 points behind the top two in the group, and was indeed eliminated in two rounds in advance.
At present, in the round of 36, only the national football team still has hope of qualifying, accumulating 7 points in 4 rounds to grasp the initiative to qualify, as long as the next round of home defeat Thailand can advance to the round of 18.