The quarter-finals between the UAE team and the Syrian team finally reached the penalty shootout, and the UAE team, which was playing at home, had the last laugh in the penalty shootout with the support of the fans, and once again reached the semi-finals of the Asian Cup after more than 20 years.

The top four teams of this Asian Cup are Iran, Japan, Dragon and the United Arab Emirates.

Iran and Japan are both traditional powerhouses in Asia.

The Iranian team occupies the first place in the Asian region of the FIFA ranking all year round, and is recognized as the "Asian boss" in recent years, and the road to promotion in this Asian Cup is quite smooth, with few obstacles in the group stage, and the most severe test is in the previous quarterfinals, they met with the defending champion Australia, 90 minutes of regular play time were tied, and with a stunner in extra time, they eliminated the Australian team and advanced to the semifinals.

The Japanese team is recognized as the "hegemon of Asia" in the past ten years, and is the team that has won the Asian Cup the most times.

In this Asian Cup, the Japanese team is also one of the favorites to win the championship.

However, now that they meet the current "Asian boss" Iran in the semi-finals in advance, it is really difficult to predict the outcome.

Compared to the prestige of the two semi-finalists in the top half, the Dragons and the United Arab Emirates in the bottom half of the region are somewhat dwarfed.

Even after entering the second decade of the 21st century, with the vigorous development of the Dragon economy, the investment in football has increased year after year, and under the influence of the Golden Yuan policy, the level of the Dragon Super League has improved rapidly, and it has become one of the top in Asia.

However, the record of the Dragon Country team has not improved in those years, and it once created a bloody 1:5 defeat to the Thai youth team at home.

The continued sluggishness of the national team's record is in stark contrast to the vigorous momentum of the league, making the economic situation far inferior to the Japanese team, the South Korean team, the Iranian team and other teams in the Dragon Country.

Not to mention the UAE team, despite being known as the "Eagles", the record of both the national team and the league is lackluster in Asia.

The two most prominent achievements are the 2007 Gulf Cup championship, which is a regional competition at the same level as the East Asian Cup.

In addition, the UAE team also won the runner-up of the Asian Cup once in 1996, and it is worth mentioning that the UAE team was also the host of that event!

This also makes the UAE team dare to have greater expectations for this Asian Cup - they are now in the semi-finals, and they are only one step away from equaling the best record in history.

However, in the past two years, the development of the Dragon Country team has entered a soaring stage, and the record has improved significantly, first in the case of having gone to the edge of the cliff, the miraculous counterattack was successful, and the World Cup qualifiers successfully broke through in the top 12 of the Asian zone, and then defeated the Australian team and the Honduras team in succession in the play-offs, and once again entered the World Cup finals after 16 years.

Subsequently, they won the East Asian Cup and the Dragon Cup.

In last year's World Cup, in the group stage, it defeated the South American powerhouse Uruguay, the African powerhouse Egypt, and the host Russia team in the same group, and advanced to the round of 16 for the first time as the group leader, and joined hands with the Russian team to keep the strongest Uruguay team in the same group out of the knockout round.

Although in the subsequent quarterfinals, the Dragons lost to the new European Cup champion Portugal led by Cristiano Ronaldo and stopped in the round of 16 in that World Cup, their performance still amazed the world and made fans around the world re-acquaint themselves with Dragon Football!

In this Asian Cup, the Dragon Country team was not favored before the game, all the way forward, in the previous five games, each game was more than two goals better than the opponent, and in the game with Kyrgyzstan, it created the 8:1 Asian Cup finals The most disparity in the history of the game is the most disparity.

In five games, the Dragons scored a total of 25 goals, an average of 5 goals per game, such an amazing offensive efficiency, and the powerful attacking power displayed by this is enough to make all opponents fearful.

The United Arab Emirates, which will meet the Dragons in the semi-finals, has only scored four goals in the previous five games in 90 minutes of regular play, which is less than a fraction of the Dragons.

Such a huge gap makes the pre-game prediction of this semi-final one-sided in favor of the Dragon Nation team.

Although the UAE team has the status of the host country and has the advantage of sitting on the home field, in such a huge disparity of strength, including themselves, they do not think they can easily cope with this game.

The probability of winning is too low, and the only hope for the UAE team now is to concede as few goals as possible, and not to lose too much face at their own doorstep.

With the birth of the semi-finals, this Asian Cup has officially entered the final stage, although there are still four games left, but the schedule is only 6 days left.

The next two semi-finals are scheduled for January 28 and January 29 respectively, starting with the first half of the region, the match between Iran and Japan, and the semi-finals between the Dragons and the United Arab Emirates, which will start on January 29 at 6pm local time in the UAE and 10pm at 10pm Dragon Kingdom Beijing time.

After these two semi-finals, there are only three or four finals left, and the final final.

The third- and fourth-place finals are scheduled for January 31, and the final will be held on February 1.

The Asian Cup has been going on so far, and there is no secret between the only four remaining teams, all of them have done their best to get out of the encirclement and come to this point - although the road to promotion of the Dragon Country team is much easier than that of the other three teams, the team's tactics and the state of the players are also vividly presented in the previous games.

The Asian Cup starts on January 5 and ends on February 1, a total of 28 days, but only the host team, the United Arab Emirates, can make the most of these 28 days, and the other teams that start a little later in the group stage will only have about 25 days for the whole tournament.

In such a short period of time, playing 7 games is not only a test of the team's strength, but also a test of the players' physical fitness and willpower!

The Chinese team can't even win the Indian team~~~ Although the game process is quite interesting, and it has created several good opportunities, hitting the goalpost twice, and lacking some luck, but, in the final analysis, it is still lacking in ability! It seems that only the emergence of a player like Shen Feng can save Chinese football!