In the early morning of April 26, Beijing time, the U23 Asian Cup 1/4 finals ended with two battles, Japan's Olympic Games defeated Qatar's Olympic Games 4-2, and South Korea's Olympic Games lost to Indonesia's Olympic Games 12-13, staging a night of excitement. At present, two seats have been born in the top four, namely Japan and Indonesia, and then Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Iraq, and Vietnam will compete for the remaining two tickets.
Qatar's match against Japan was the first knockout match, and it was a tight clash between Japan and hosts Qatar.
Japan scored one goal early in the game, but Qatar equalised in the first half. However, towards the end of the first half, the Qatari goalkeeper was sent off by the referee for a pedaling foul, and Qatar fell into passivity. However, Qatar did not give up and scored first in the second half, but the team struggled to withstand the Japanese attack in the end. The team was equalized in the next game, and in extra time, Japan scored two goals in a row, and finally lost 2:4, and Japan also entered the semi-finals of the U23 Asian Cup.
South Korea's Olympic team was eliminated by the dark horse Indonesian team in the penalty shootout, stopping in the quarterfinals of this year's U23 Asian Cup, and it is also confirmed that it will not participate in this summer's Paris Olympics.
In this game, South Korea's Olympic team was stubbornly blocked by Indonesia, and it unexpectedly fell behind 1-2 in the first half. In the second half, although the South Korean Olympic team still stubbornly tied the score after being sent off by one man, they were out of the game after missing a penalty in the 12th round in a brutal penalty shootout.
Missing out on the semi-finals of the Asian Cup, South Korea has been absent from the Olympic Games for the first time in nearly 10 Olympic Games (in nearly 40 years), and since the 1988 Olympics, South Korea has participated in nine consecutive Olympic men's football competitions, and has never been absent, with the best record being the bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics. This is also the first time that South Korea has been absent from the men's football competition at Barcelona 1992, when it was restructured to participate in the men's football competition with Under-23 players.