The 2023 Asian Cup group stage has ended with the determination of 16 teams entering the 1/8 round and 8 teams being eliminated.
The teams moving forward include:
Group A: Qatar (first group), Tajikistan (second group)
Group B: Australia (first group), Uzbekistan (second group), Syria (third team with 3rd best record)
Group C: Iran (first group), UAE (second group), Palestine (third team with second best record)
Group D: Iraq (group 1st), Japan (group 2nd), Indonesia (third team with 4th best performance)
Group E: Jordan (first group), Korea (second group), Jordan (third team with first best record)
Group F: Saudi Arabia (first group), Thailand (second group)
Among these, there are 3 teams that maintained a winning record in the group stage: Qatar, Iran and Iraq. Iran is the team with a better score than the other two teams (7/2) but Qatar is the rare team (with Thailand) that does not concede a goal (5/0) and Iraq (with Japan and Korea) is the team that scores. Most goals (8 goals).
In addition, teams from Australia, Uzbekistan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Thailand are other teams that maintained unbeaten records in the group stage.
Eliminated teams include: China, Lebanon, India, Hong Kong (China), Vietnam, Malaysia, Oman, Kyrgyzstan.
There are 3 teams India, Hong Kong and Vietnam all without any points but Vietnam has a better score than the other 2 teams. Vietnam’s difference is 4/8, India is 0/6 and Hong Kong is 1/7.
If Malaysia did not have an equalizer in Korea’s calculated draw, Malaysia would not have had any points and the score would still be worse than Vietnam. But no matter what, the fact that Malaysia earned 1 point against South Korea also helped them get a point and made Vietnam the only representative of Southeast Asia without a point at the Asian Cup, ranking last compared to Thailand and Indonesia. and Malaysia.
Match schedule for round 1/8
6:30 p.m. January 28: Australia – Indonesia
23:00 January 28: Tajikistan – UAE
6:30 p.m. January 29: Iraq – Jordan
23:00 January 29: Qatar – Palestine
6:30 p.m. January 30: Uzbekistan – Thailand
11:00 p.m. January 30: Saudi Arabia – South Korea
6:30 p.m. January 31: Bahrain – Japan
23:00 January 31: Iran – Syria.