Chapter 160: Miracles and Double Standards
The Chinese fans who confirmed the qualification early can finally help the opponents in the same group analyze the qualification situation with peace of mind and kindness in the final stage:
In the first case, if Saudi Arabia beats Qatar, it will advance by 1 point over Iran, regardless of goal difference.
In the second case, if Saudi Arabia draws with Qatar, Iran does not need to consider the goal difference, and it is also a 1-point advantage to advance.
In the third case, if Qatar beats Saudi Arabia and the goal difference is greater than or equal to 4, Qatar will advance by virtue of goal difference.
In the fourth case, Qatar defeats Saudi Arabia and the goal difference in this game is less than 4, then the Iranian team advances by virtue of the goal difference.
In the fifth case, Qatar and Saudi Arabia played 5:2, and Qatar and Iran drew lots to determine the promotion places. Because if it is 5:2, the two teams have the same points, goal difference, goals, mutual wins, mutual record goal difference and mutual record goals, according to FIFA rules, then the draw will be made.
It's a very interesting situation, so in the last round of the game, even many Chinese fans don't care about the match between the national football team and Kuwait at all, but the ratings of this Saudi Arabian match against Qatar remain high.
The famous architect of the Bern miracle in football and the head coach of the West German team in the 1954 World Cup. Hebergel said two classic words, football is round and football is a 90-minute game. These two wise sayings are perfectly confirmed in this game.
From the ambition of the top 10 to stumbling all the way to this part, the Saudis have long lost their self-confidence. And the Qatar team has been ready to fight and turn a bicycle into a motorcycle since they turned into a-stirring stick, and they didn't think about what impact the final result of this game would have on them.
Just 18 minutes into the game, Qatari full-back Naimi, who had returned from suspension, broke through the ten fingers of Asia's No. 1 goalkeeper with a burst shot on the left side, and then in the 27th and 39th minutes, the Qataris scored two goals in a row, and they were only one goal difference away from qualifying. In the last seven or eight minutes of the first half, the two teams fell into chaos, and the Saudi Arabian team's Ovilan took advantage of the chaos in front of the opponent's penalty area to use outstanding individual skills to shake down two Qatari defenders and push the far corner to recover a point.
In the second half, the two teams fought even more darkly, and in the opening 11 minutes, Qatar's fullbacks shoveled Ovilan when they were obviously aiming at people, and Ovilan, who got up, sent an old punch to the opponent's face, and then the two sides almost staged a full martial arts, and even the coach and team doctor on the bench rushed over. In the end, the referees played fifty boards each, and two red cards ended the clash. Saudi Arabia's attacking momentum was immediately sluggish due to the departure of the core of the midfield, and Qatar took advantage of the chaos to score their fourth goal of the game after six minutes.
In fact, the game was played to this point, it is obvious that the Saudi team has no power to return to the sky, but they hold their breath and do not want to see Qatar step on their corpse to move forward, both sides are 10 people present at the moment, the head coach of the Saudi Arabian team waved his hand and replaced two midfielders, leaving only a back and two strikers in front.4 central defenders in front of the penalty area, no need to kick can be disgusting to death, the Qatar team stormed for 22 minutes or failed to score the last goal. Counting the 5 minutes of stoppage time, it depends on whether the Qataris will go to heaven or be pulled into hell by the Saudis, depending on how many minutes it will be.
At this moment, the head coach of Qatar is also desperate, replacing the remaining 4 forwards on the bench, and only leaving two defenders in the backfield, the result is that in less than two minutes after the adjustment, the Saudi Arabian team cleared the backfield with a big foot, although the Qatari defenders in the front court fought for the header, but the Saudi team also had an additional follow-up back player. The front court immediately formed a 3-on-2, Saudi Arabia's two forwards pulled to both sides of the pole, Qatar's only two defenders could only hold the middle, as a result, the Saudi Arabian back divided the ball to the left side, 2 to 2 in the penalty area, Saudi Arabia's two players a mutual cross position disrupted the opponent's defense, around the back point of the Saudi Arabian team did not stop the ball and scored a close-range volley, the score became 2:4, the Qataris are one step away from the World Cup.
After the restart, the Qatar team pressed, leaving only one central defender in the backfield, and the other central defender who is 1.87 meters tall also ran to the front court to compete for the header. The Saudi players watched the opponent hoist the ball to their penalty area again and again, gritted their teeth again and again, and then the Qatari goalkeeper also pressed to the midfield, so that the Saudi team had two people to catch the ball with their purposeless big feet, at least they could save 1 minute of time.
In the 93rd minute of the game, when Qatar's rush was pushed out again, the player who received the ball did not hoist the ball into the Saudi penalty area again, but suddenly passed a low flat ball to the front of the penalty area, and then the receiving player and the side substitute striker once successfully 2-1 chiseled through the Saudi defense, the No. 19 substitute striker from the sideline of the penalty area a cross, the ball was passed in a hurry to be extremely poor, not high or low to make the front point of the teammates difficult to handle, just when everyone thought the ball would cross the front point, The player at the front point has a scorpion swinging its tail, and the ball is in! Deyayea didn't react and the referee's whistle called the end of the game.
Although the Qataris won, they are not happy at all, because they have a chance to qualify through the fifth way, but what makes people laugh is that they have to fight Iran for the last place in the Asian zone through the draw.
The result of this game was really unexpected, and Rice Sports' "Stars" column borrowed a phrase from their own boss to describe the game. Well, three words to be exact – "see you in a long time".
A week later, at the AFC headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, the AFC secretary general personally drew a place between Iran and Qatar, and after a long period of various mat activities, Wilapan opened the white table tennis ball in his hand. It was the Qatar national team that secured the qualifying spot.
Alright, stop! It's impossible, it's Iran that qualified for the 1998 World Cup finals in France. At this moment, the representatives of the Iranian Football Association in the audience cried with joy, and on the other side, everyone in the Qatar Football Association could only silently accept this fact, and the officials of the countries participating in the draw ceremony expressed their congratulations and regrets to the two countries.
Li Byrne is explaining the draw to Peng Er and a few other teammates at his home at the moment, because they all feel that this is a very fair way. Only the teenager who has not even won a 4th prize after buying a two-color ball for many years understands that the AFC will guarantee that the Iranian team will be able to qualify for this in terms of strength or other factors, not to mention the dirty style of play that offended people in the second half of the top 10 match, even if they have completed a feat similar to the Bern miracle, just look at the fact that there is no media coverage of this at all, this is an official intention to suppress it!
Lee Byrne taught his young teammates a good lesson that there is no absolute fairness in sports. Fate is the safest only in your own hands, and the people above are all well-known double standards!