On April 29th, Beijing time, the semi-finals of the U23 Asian Cup started tonight, and two semi-finals were directly staged tonight, which can be described as wonderful, although the national football U23 lay in the group stage early, but it did not affect the heat of the U23 Asian Cup, the national football team suffered from Japan and came to the semi-finals smoothly, while South Korea U23 fell at the feet of Indonesia;
U23 Asian Cup semi-final schedule
April 29 22:00 Indonesia vs Uzbekistan
April 30 01:30 Japan vs Iraq
Fans can watch both matches tonight via CCTV5, Japan vs Iraq, the two teams just played a friendly match this month, and Japan only scored one goal to beat Iraq, but Iraq will definitely have reservations about the friendly game. and Iraq U23 can enter the semi-finals, which also has a certain strength, not by luck. So will Japan be able to defeat Iraq again tonight? Let's wait and see!
In the bottom half of the tournament, we saw Uzbekistan get their revenge and beat the defending champions, while Indonesia emerged as an impressive dark horse as they managed to beat favourites South Korea. Two strong teams will battle it out in the bottom half of the bracket for a place in the final.
These two teams have met twice in their past history, and each time it was a 0-0 draw in regular time. This situation begs the question, will tonight's game be able to break the deadlock?
Uzbekistan, as the runner-up of the last edition, overthrew the defending champion in the quarterfinals this year, which shows that this year is rushing for the championship. The Indonesian team has made it all the way to the semi-finals and has become the biggest dark horse of this year, and the semi-finals and finals will be quite exciting.
Let's look forward to seeing if tonight's game can break the shackles of history and who will have the last laugh!