Qatar achieves goals and wins first title at Japan's expense

Asian Cup 2019: Qatar achieves its achievements and wins its first title at the expense of Japan (3-1)

Arab Arab Team

February 01, 2019

Qatar scored for the first time the best football in its history with the 2018 Asian Cup, beating defending champions Japan 4-1 Friday 3-1 in Abu Dhabi.

Al-Moez Ali (12), Abdul Aziz Hatem (27), Akram Afif (83) and Takumi Minamino (69) scored the first goal of the tournament.

The number of spectators has exceeded 36,000 and Qatar has achieved a rare mark: he has won seven matches in Lebanon, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates, scoring 19 goals and conceding a brace in the final, leaving Australia in 2015 at home.

"We can not speak, we have a great team, we scored two goals in the first half and we had to defend in the second," said coach Felix Sanchez.

Sanchez regained his regular form after the end of the suspension of Bassam Al-Rawi and Abdel-Aziz Hatem, playing in the 5-3-1-1 formation.

With an acquisition of Qatar in the first quarter of an hour, the Qataris have become their favorite destination to translate their fast start into goals. At the first opportunity, Afif passed the ball to Al Moez Ali, who created it for himself inside the area and shot with a magnificent acrobat in the left corner of goalkeeper Shwichi Gonda ( 12).

Qatar then doubled the score by passing Afif also to Al Moez Ali before being saved by captain Maya Yoshida in the last pitch for a corner (13).

Midfielder Abdul Aziz Hatem received the ball from outside the box and propelled it into a superb spiral in the top right corner of the Jonda, ranked 27th, scoring two goals in Asia Cup for Japan since 1988.

Hatem scored for the second time after defeating South Korea in the quarterfinals, while Afif continued his career and placed 10th in the final. Japan took the takeover, but Qatar remained the most dangerous with a lightning ball and reached leader Hassan Haidus flush with the right post (36).

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In the second half, Afif started with a quick break and made a nice cross at Hatem who made a mistake in taming him at the goal gate by losing his chance.

The match was a very important turning point for Qatar when Boalam Khokhi came up and broke his head to hit Yoshida's head. He fell to the ground and could not finish the game. Salem Al-Hajri replaced him.

Bassam Al-Rawi replaced Boualem, while Al-Hajri was on the right side of the defense at three. A Japanese siege quickly erupted in Boualem, while Uya Okako and Takumi Minamino crossed the region to unify the region and hit the Qatari nets for the first time in tournament 69. He recovered the hopes of his team and set the crowd on fire. Japanese, who occupied more than half of the stands.

After Sanchez pushed Karim Boudiaf instead of Hydeus to strengthen his defensive position 74, the Qataris escaped the Japanese claw and escaped from the leader, Yoshida. The Uzbek referee Ravshan Irmatov used VAR to score a penalty from Akram Afif, scoring his first goal of the tournament and his third for his team in the match (83).

The last minutes were not enough in Japan to narrow the gap again and the referee kicked off the final whistle in a crazy Qatari joy. This is the first time that Japan loses the final after a crowning run in 1992, 2000, 2004 and 2011, while the best result of Qatar was the quarter-finals in 2000 and 2011. In previous direct confrontations, the Qatar had won 3-0 in 1988, then drew 1-1 in 2000 and 2007, but Japan made two losses and won 3-2 in the 2011 quarter-final before being crowned.