In the final round of the group stage of the U23 Asian Cup, with Iraq's victory over Saudi Arabia, they took the last train to advance to the top 8, and Tajikistan and Thailand in the same group were eliminated from the competition.
A total of 16 teams will compete in the tournament, with the top three teams qualifying for the Paris Olympics and the fourth-place finishers competing for one Olympic quota place in the African zone.
For each team, only the top two in the group can advance to the quarterfinals, which cannot be passed, and they will not qualify for the Olympics in advance.
Among them, in Group C, Saudi Arabia and Iraq have won the championship, and Thailand and Tajikistan have drawn a group of death. In the first round of the group stage, Saudi Arabia defeated Tajikistan, Thailand defeated Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Thailand accumulated 3 points, ranked the top two in the group, and then in the second round, Saudi Arabia defeated Thailand, Iraq overturned Tajikistan, Saudi Arabia accumulated 6 points to advance to the first round, Thailand was tied by Iraq, because of the relationship between victory and defeat or ranked second, Tajikistan 0 points continue to be at the bottom.
In the final round, the fate of Iraq, Thailand and Tajikistan will be decided. In the end, Iraq completed the big outbreak, overturning Saudi Arabia 2-1, the two teams accumulated 6 points, Iraq won and lost the relationship, and rose to the first place in the group, Saudi Arabia fell to the second place in the group, and the two teams qualified hand in hand.
In the other game, Thailand did not play well, always wanted to draw the whole game, 9 shots on goal and 6 on target, but did not score a goal, Tajikistan completed 25 shots and 8 on target, and finally completed the goal in the 91st minute of the second half, beating Thailand 1-0.
In this way, Tajikistan and Thailand are tied on three points, Tajikistan has the advantage of winning and losing and rising to third in the group, while Thailand has fallen to fourth in the group, and the two teams are out together.
Originally, as long as Thailand wins, even if it has 6 points with Saudi Arabia and Iraq, it is possible to qualify by comparing goal difference and goals, but now it has fallen from second to fourth in the group.
In addition, Thailand's goal difference is 4 and the number of goals is 2, which is the worst team in the entire group, even worse than the Chinese Olympic Games.
In the final round, after defeating the United Arab Emirates 2-1, China won 3 points and locked the third place in the group, while the goal difference became minus 2.