Following the national football team, another top 18 team got points, and this counterattack night belongs to their carnival moment!
In the fourth round of Group A of the third stage of the Asian zone of the World Preliminary Championship, the Kyrgyzstan men's football team played the North Korean men's football team at home. Kyrgyzstan, ranked 106th in the world, has never had such an experience compared to North Korea's participation in the 2010 World Cup, and it is only in recent years that it has improved its strength and has been able to break into the final stage of the Asian qualifiers for the first time, which was previously called the round of 10, the round of 12, and now the round of 18.
In this round of 18, Kyrgyzstan is in Group A with Iran, Qatar, Uzbekistan, U.A.E. and North Korea, and its qualification competitiveness has been reduced to the bottom two.
After the first three rounds, Kyrgyzstan lost to Iran, Uzbekistan and Qatar in a row, and lost 3 consecutive games in the opening game with 0 points and fell to the bottom, exactly the same record as the national football team.
With Uzbekistan and Iran both tied on 7 points, Kyrgyzstan has no hope of competing for the top two in the group. Among them, the data website We Global Football predicted the probability of each team qualifying for the round of 18, believing that the probability of Kyrgyzstan competing for qualification has been reduced to 0%.
In this regard, the new team of the round of 18 still does not give up, and this round of home against North Korea, which is also winless for three consecutive rounds, is also a miracle.
In the end, Kyrgyzstan relied on the only goal in the 11th minute of the first half to win the game 1-0, ending the opening three consecutive defeats and also reaping the first victory, just like the national football team's victory over Indonesia, finally tasting the taste of victory.
After the game, the Kyrgyzstan players celebrated with more than 20,000 fans as excited as if they had won the championship, because it was the first Asian final qualifying victory in the 32-year history of their national team, a night that changed the team history.
With the victory of Kyrgyzstan, all teams in the round of 18 have scored points, and there are no teams with zero points, and earlier on, the national football team also won at home, and while getting points, won the first victory, retaining the hope of qualifying.