The round of 16 matches of the Asian Cup continue, and today I will talk to you about the opponent of the national football team in the group stage, Tajikistan.
Tajikistan team in the group stage of this Asian Cup and the national football team in Group A, when the national football team and Tajikistan team 0-0 draw, from the situation at the time, the national football coach thought that the national football team was unlucky, and always failed to score the key goal, and finally failed to qualify for the group stage of the national football team.
Now let's go back and look at the Tajikistan team, which qualified directly in Group A by finishing second in the group, and the opponent in the round of 16 is the UAE team, to be honest, the overall strength of the UAE team is stronger than the national football team.
However, Tajikistan scored one goal in the first 30 minutes to take the lead, and the score remained 1-0 until the end of the second half, when the UAE equalized at the moment of 90 minutes, and the two sides had to go into extra time, in which both teams lost energy and did not score, and a brutal penalty shootout decided the winner.
In the penalty shootout, the Tajikistan team played very steadily and looked more balanced, scoring all 5 rounds of penalties, while the UAE team, when the second penalty was not scored, finally lost 3-5 in the penalty shootout.
Tajikistan set a record for the Asian Cup and advanced to the quarterfinals for the first time. Judging from this result, at that time in the group stage, the national football team 0-0 Tajikistan team was already considered lucky, otherwise, the probability of losing is very high.