South Korea’s Um Ji Sung (C)
Dribbles and tries to break through during the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-23 Asian Cup qualifier at the Changwon Football Center on Monday. South Korea defeated Kyrgyzstan 1-0 on the day.
The Asian Football Confederation (AFC)
U-23 Asian Cup Group B qualifier is underway at the Changwon Football Center. Drawn in a group with Qatar, Kyrgyzstan, and Myanmar, South Korea lost 0-2 in Qatar on June 6 and won 1-0 in Kyrgyzstan three days later on June 9. With two games played, South Korea’s qualifying record on the AFC’s official website is 1-1-1 (3 points), which should be good enough for second place behind Qatar, which has two wins (6 points). 섯다 Qatar is in fourth place with no wins or losses. Why.
Hosts will qualify automatically, matches against hosts will be ‘friendlies’
Qatar is the host of the 2024 AFC U-23 Asian Cup, which kicks off next April. In any soccer tournament, including the World Cup, the host nation is guaranteed a spot in the tournament. While Qatar could qualify for the tournament without having to play a qualifier, they chose to play a qualifier to get a feel for the strength of the participating teams.
All previous hosts of the tournament have generally made similar decisions. Qatar was drawn into Group B alongside South Korea in the qualifying draw in May. At the time, the Korea Football Association said, “The match against Qatar is not a win or a loss.
We only need to look at the results of the matches against the other two teams.” As such, the loss to Qatar did not count as an official result of the Asian Cup qualifiers, allowing South Korea to sit atop Group B with one win and no losses.
South Korea is in a fortunate position. After beating South Korea 2-0, Qatar has a formidable record, including a 6-0 demolition of Myanmar. If Qatar hadn’t been the “host” of the Asian Cup, Korea could have slipped to second place.
There are 43 nations participating in the U-23 Asian Cup qualifiers, with 11 groups, from A to K, in total. There are 16 teams in the U-23 Asian Cup main draw.
After subtracting the automatic berths for the top teams in each group, which go to the host nation, there are four spots available, and the top four teams in each of the 11 groups will qualify based on points, goals for, goals against, and goals scored. If South Korea had finished second in Group B, they could have been out of the competition with a 1-0 win over Kyrgyzstan.
Different ‘number of matches’, how do you rank the second-place teams?
There are 42 qualifiers, as Qatar’s match is considered a friendly and not an official qualifier. Each group is made up of four countries, but the final group, Group K, has three countries – Turkmenistan, Indonesia, and Chinese Taipei. The same is true for Group B, which has South Korea, Kyrgyzstan, and Myanmar, minus Qatar. Groups with four nations play three matches, 온라인섯다 while groups with three nations play only two.
In the event of an imbalance in the number of nations, the AFC explains that “each group has a different number of nations, so in the case of a group with more nations, points are calculated by subtracting the result against the lowest-ranked team in the group.” This applies equally to the adult Asian Cup qualifiers, not the U-23 competition.
A unique rule led to a dramatic upset two years ago. Syria, then in Group A of the U-23 Asian Cup Qualifiers, got off to a flying start with a 5-0 win over Sri Lanka in their first match. However, they drew with Yemen (0-0) and Qatar (1-1) to finish second in the group behind Qatar, who won two and drew one. Still, they scored a total of six goals in three games and conceded just one, 카지노사이트랭크 not bad for a second-place team.
In Group J, Thailand drew
1-1 with Mongolia in their first game, then beat Laos 3-0 and tied with Malaysia 0-0 to finish second in the group behind Malaysia (2 wins and 1 draw). Compared to Syria, they were outgunned and out-scored.
It was the ‘last place team’ that sealed the fate of both teams. The bottom of Group A was Sri Lanka, and the bottom of Group J was Mongolia. With their only win against Sri Lanka gone, Syria were left with a mediocre record of two draws and zero goals for when the scores were recalculated between the second-placed teams, while Thailand, who had 10,000 points deducted, qualified for the knockout stages with one win and one draw (4 points), 고스톱 finishing first overall among the second-placed teams.