In the early morning of the 30th, Beijing time, after the Asian Cup 1 8 finals Qatar vs Palestine, 101 goals have been scored in 40 games in this Cup, with an average goal of 2 per game53, slightly less than the entire 2019 Asian Cup 255 goals per game. It has to be said that the gap in strength between the Asian Cup brigades is gradually narrowing, and such a situation also means that the Chinese team, which has been eliminated from the group, must play well in the round of 36 of the World Preliminary Tournament, which will rekindle the flames of war. If they fail to make it to the round of 18, they will not be able to qualify for the next Asian Cup.
Haydos. After the group stage of this Asian Cup, the AFC began to count the relevant data of the event. On the evening of the 29th local time, after the 1 8 finals Ka and Ba matches, the AFC released a goal data. It shows that Haydos' goal that night was the 100th goal of this Asian Cup.
As of that evening local time, 40 matches have been played in this cup (36 group games, 4 1 8 finals), and each team has scored a total of 101 goals, with an average of 2 goals per game53 pcs. The data also shows that 87 goals have been scored in 36 group games, an average of 2 goals per game42 capsules. Compared with the 2019 Asian Cup, a total of 130 goals (51 games) were scored in the entire tournament, with an average of 2With 55 goals, the average number of goals per game so far in this tournament is slightly less.
It should be noted that during the last Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates, the North Korean team, which was eliminated from the group, conceded 14 goals and minus 13 goals in the three group games, tying the previous record for the most goals conceded in the group stage set by Uzbekistan. In addition, Yemen became the only team in the tournament to have a "triple zero" (zero wins, zero goals, zero points). Although there are also "three-zero" teams such as the Indian team in this tournament, their minus 6 goal difference is still better than the minus 13 of the North Korean team and the minus 10 of the Yemen team in the previous tournament.
In the 4 finals of this Asian Cup 1 8, except for the Australian team that eliminated the Indonesian team that entered the knockout stage for the first time with 4 goals, the scores of the remaining 3 games are relatively close, and the maximum score difference in regular game time is only 1 goal. Among them, as the "new ding" of the event, the Tajikistan team finally entered the top 8 through a penalty shootout after a 1-1 draw with the old powerhouse UAE team in 120 minutes. In the first two West Asian matchups on the 29th, the Jordanian team and the 2007 Asian Cup winner Iraq alternated the lead until the Jordanian team eliminated the opponent with two goals in stoppage time. Although the Qatar team has the home advantage, it eliminated the opponent with difficulty through a penalty after conceding 1 goal first.
1 The remaining 4 matches of the finals are: Japan vs Bahrain, Iran vs Syria, Saudi Arabia vs South Korea, and Uzbekistan vs Thailand. Which of these games is not a matchup between the two sides? And whichever team goes one step further will face a stronger challenge next. The desire for championship titles will make them more cautious.
Among the four teams that have reached the top 8, in addition to the two seeded teams of Qatar and Australia, there are also Jordan and Tajikistan, a second-tier team, and Tajikistan, a fourth-tier team. In addition, Pot 3 teams such as Bahrain and Syria are also expected to join the top 8. Combined with the matches that have ended, it is not difficult to judge that the gap in strength between the teams in each group of this Asian Cup is narrowing. Although the six seeded teams are still collective, overall, the results of each team and their bracket status may not complement each other.
As of the end of the first four matches of the 1 8 finals, the tournament has attracted more than 1.06 million spectators to the stadium, breaking the record of 1.04 million for the largest total attendance of a single tournament set by the 2004 Asian Cup. The reason for the record data is not only that the match was scheduled in Qatar, the host of the last World Cup, but also that the competition is fierce and the spectacle has been improved.
Although the Chinese team has been eliminated from the group and returned home early, the impact of this Asian Cup on the team is huge. On the one hand, after the Chinese team lost this Asian Cup with a poor record of zero goals and zero wins, it is inevitable that the international ranking will fall further. On the other hand, the Asian Cup teams, especially the teams in the 3rd and 4th pots, generally showed an upward momentum in terms of technical level. As international player Wei Shihao said: "Every team is improving, only we are standing still. "This means that the Chinese team's opponents in the Asian Cup or Asian football competition are increasing unabated.
According to the competition rules determined by the AFC, the 2027 Asian Cup will maintain the size of 24 teams. Among them, the teams that enter the third stage of the Asian zone of the 2026 World Preliminaries, that is, the top 18, can directly get tickets to the next Asian Cup. There are 12 in this Asian Cup, and half of the places are directly generated through the top 12 of the Qatar World Preliminaries, so the rate of remaining teams competing for tickets to the Asian Cup through the qualifiers is relatively higher than that of the next one. In other words, if the Chinese team wants to go straight to the 2027 Asian Cup, it should go all out to advance to the round of 18. Otherwise, they will be forced to participate in the Asian Cup qualifiers. And the team, with its current technical level, also has the possibility of "overturning" in the qualifiers.
Text: Beijing Youth Daily, Doha, Qatar, Special Correspondent, Xiao Yun.
Edited by Xu Zhao.