On May 3, Beijing time, in the third place match of the U23 Asian Cup, the former champion Iraq U23 played against Indonesia U23, the big dark horse of this year. Jenner scored in the 19th minute, Zeid equalized in the 27th minute, and went into extra time without a win in regular time, before Jassim scored in the 96th minute to take the lead and refuse to cause an upset. In the final 120 minutes, Iraq won the third place in the U23 Asian Cup with 2-1 Indonesia, and qualified for the men's football team for the Paris Olympics.
This year's Indonesia U23 went all the way to the knockout round, defeating the favorite South Korea U23 on penalties, but lost to the last runner-up Uzbekistan in the semifinals, but as a big dark horse of this year, it is still very worthy of recognition to reach the semifinals, and the national football U23 has been lying in the group stage early.
The third-place match was fiercely contested, with Indonesia playing well in passing, Iraq defending, and the main danger for both sides was set-pieces and corners. In the 18th minute of the game, the Indian team got a corner kick opportunity, passed the ball to the penalty area through a tactical corner kick, the Iraqi defender cleared, and Jenner at the top of the arc outside the penalty area got the ball and scored with a low shot;
In the second half, in the 70th minute, Iraq's Nihad missed a chance to kill in the face of an empty goal, and then the two sides exchanged blanks in the second half and went into extra time.
In the 96th minute of extra time, the Indonesian team's backfield was more sluggish, Iraq's Montah found the opportunity to pass a long pass over the top to the front, Jassim followed up, and scored with a stop to help the team beat the Indonesian team, and finally the U23 Iraq defeated the Indonesian team 2-1.