Topic: Asian Cup 2023 Prediction and Discussion - page 3. (Read 5530 times)

Jordan already made history for their national team as it is their first Asian Cup final match. Qatar seems to become a new big team in Asia even in World Cup 2022 at their home land, they did not have good performances while Iran and Japan had impressive performances.

This player generation already helped Qatar to have to Asian Cup final matches and won one title. This shows their strategy is good enough, at least in Asian and if they continue, they will improve their performances in World Cup. Like Japan gone a long way since France 1998 until two latest World Cups with a lot of impression.

The success of Qatar also can give confidence to Saudi Arabia with their strategy to build up their domestic league, Saudi Professional League, as a foundation for their stronger national team. But Saudi Arabia must invest more money in their academies for youth players.

Watched the entire match actually and it was a thrilling one. As South Korea fell the day before then you knew anything was possible since Iran was the in the exact same position as the Koreans being the favorites of their match.
Qatar were even lucky enough in the last few minutes of regulation to have Iran receive a red card just outside their own box. The defender was jumping up for the ball and the Iranian player just grazed him, but it was a foul no doubt.
The 13 additional extra minutes for stoppage time was excessive but the way the host nation were playing it didn't matter especially with the one man advantage.
This was a rather exciting match to watch and would be thrilling enough for me to watch the final with Jordan.

The semifinal match yesterday was so interesting because as a host Qatar status is not the favourite but indeed i can see Qatar didn't dominate the game and during the match Iran was successfully to make them under pressure but Qatar didn't panic and they focusing to their defense which sometimes to threaten Iran defensive lines through an counter attack strategy and Qatar players looks patiently to wait until Iran lost to focus and 3rd goal from Qatar was happened when Iran too focus to attack which make Iran players didn't believe it happend but Almoez Ali who escape from offside trap was successfully to scored goal and bringing Qatar to advances to the final match

Since this tournament begin Qatar is not the first favourite team to gets the trophy from this competition because people were more likely to support Japan or South Korea as strong teams but Qatar has been showing their consistency since group stages and now they can able to reach to the final match two times in a row and on Saturday they will fight for the trophy and Jordan also want to make a history with gets their first trophy in this competition so let see it later whether Qatar can able to defend their title or Jordan who can gets the title for the first time and i haven't checked the odds yet but i will assume Qatar is the favourite this time

What I was worried about actually happened and this is a final between underdog teams and I think it is quite difficult to determine who will win the Asian Cup this year. Both teams started from the round where they were not favored enough, but being able to reach the final round was something that had never happened before. Maybe by reaching the final, as hosts Qatar will get full support from their fans and they will not waste this final match.

Jordan's positive trend is likely to continue and in fact they are the team that can win the Asian Cup title rather than Qatar and also considering that this is the main target to win the title, Jordan will go all out against Qatar later. Now the winning mentality of both teams will be tested in the final match and whoever wins, I think both are worthy and I hope that whoever loses will also accept the result and appreciate their struggle until this final round.

Finally AFC Asian Cup have been in the final round and many people had wrong predict with the final match most of them favorite Japan vs South Korean but the fact Jordan vs Qatar. For Qatar seems possibility raise to final round of AFC Asian Cup because they are host and easily with several matches get advantage from referee.

Acceptable or not its the final ideal for AFC Asian Cup 2023 and most closer for Qatar become the winner, they will got advantage when the final match supported by their fans than Jordan,  but looking how the unpredictable result when Jordan success eliminated South Korean I have optimistic will make surprise the final match result. The final match will play on Saturday and excited waiting the result or possibility will Qatar success winning AFC Asian Cup back to back? after last edition success become the winner.

The final was not what many people predicted, but between Jordan and Qatar, it was Jordania who made it to the final that was the most surprising, even though they were quite helped because in the quarterfinals they only faced Tajikistan but managed to beat South Korea, a very surprising achievement from Jordan.
So what about the final results, will Jordan still continue its positive trend? Honestly, I doubt that Qatar as the host will actually get an advantage because they will face a relatively weaker team so the opportunity to become champion and defend the title is very wide open, but if Jordan manages to become champion then this will be their first Asian Cup title if I'm not mistaken and proves that there is quite good development in Asian football because it is not dominated by Japan, South Korea, Australia or Saudi Arabia because the team that was not the favorite managed to appear surprising.

But the ideal final did not happen. because Jordan was able to beat South Korea. and last night Qatar was able to beat Iran. and in the 2024 Asian Cup final there was a match in the final of 2 non-seeded teams that brought together Jordan vs Qatar.

For Qatar we are not too surprised because so far they have indeed experienced an improvement in performance and as hosts they have a good chance while Jordan we really didn't expect it and honestly this is not the final we hoped for because previously I thought Iran would be one of the candidates to go to the final.

I think this is what will make the final match more exciting. Most of the fans of the two teams are Arabs in general, and they will find themselves at a somewhat funny crossroads because they were all supporting the Arab teams in general. No one can predict whether the majority of them will support Qatar or Jordan, and there is no clear basis for that at all.

While reading the previous comments, I was interested in studying the different impressions, all of which fluctuated between Qatar winning as host of the tournament or Jordan being the star of the event. It is not hidden that all eyes will be on Qatar, which will be proven by the betting percentages on each team. Of course, this does not negate the efforts of both teams to reach the final, which is considered an achievement to a large extent.

Qatar but also Jordan made a good achievement by reaching the final games although the strong teams they faced especially South Korea for Jordan but also Iran for Qatar.
Two Arabic countries facing each other has its taste for them and it will be kind of more unpredictable than what used to be. In the head to head history, Qatar used to win twice more than Jordan.

Well, as I predicted if Qatar won this match. even though in reality, Iran is far favorite than its opposing team. even based on FIFA rankings, these two teams are quite far apart. Iran is ranked 21st, while Qatar is ranked 58th. Likewise based on odds, Iran with odds @1.73, while Qatar with @5.20. in this match, the two teams played quite evenly even though Iran had slightly more control of ball possession. based on chances, Iran had 22 total shots, 5 on target, 6 big chances, 1 hit the goalpost. meanwhile, Qatar only had 15 total shots, but 8 of them were on target, 5 were big opportunities. Technically, the two teams played quite evenly. In this match, Iran took the lead in the 4th minute, but Qatar was able to equalize in the 17th minute. after that, Akram Afif was able to put Qatar ahead to 1-2. In short, the match ended with a score of 2-3.

In the end, Qatar has the right to advance to the final round where they will face Jordan. so according to my estimates, Qatar will at least return to the final round of this competition. however, what I didn't expect was that the match ended within normal minutes, when at first I thought the match would last until extra time, and even potentially a penalty shootout. in the end, a word of congratulations to Qatar and the gamblers who bet on the Qatar national team. in the Iranian camp, the Iranian national team had to accept that it would eventually be overthrown by Qatar. well, we are just waiting for the final match of this championship between Jordan versus Qatar.

The Iran game against Qatar was a very emotional game, I watched the whole game, and I confess that before the game started I was thinking that it could be a boring game, as I have seen the games in this competition with more fouls and a lot of wasted time. opportunities to score a goal and I have also noticed a very low quality in the teams, but even so I decided to watch this game in its entirety, and I was shocked by the speed at which Iran scored a goal, so I thought that Iran would win the game, especially because Iran scored a goal in the 4th minute of the game, it was something that made me think about betting on them, but I thought about waiting to see how Qatar would react and I was very right to have waited because in the 17th minute Qatar scored the equalizing goal and Therefore, both teams had a chance of winning the game.

but the bookmakers were convinced that Iran would win this game, because the odds were in favor of Iran, but Qatar scored the second goal, an incredible goal from the Qatari player. But to my surprise, even though Qatar was winning the game, the bookmakers were giving 2.00 to Qatar and 3.00 to Iran, as if the game was balanced and apparently the bookmakers were right. Iran benefited from a penalty and scored the equalizer. but Qatar was not shaken by this and continued playing in such a way that they managed to score the third goal, but the bookmakers placed Iran as the favorite even though the odds were 2.00 for Iran and 6.00 for Qatar

This was when the game was draw, as Iran kept putting pressure on Qatar's defense a few times, so the bookmakers were looking at Iran as favorites and were greatly underestimating Qatar. In my opinion, the difference between these two teams was the following: Iran did not have accurate attackers, they kept wasting opportunities, while Qatar had efficient attackers who scored goals even with little opportunity, which is why Qatar managed to win the game. and with this victory, qatar is in the final of the competition and will play against jordan. Honestly, I didn't expect these two teams to reach the final of this competition.

Was over 5.5x on Qatar to win the match and as the odds suggest, It was a surprising result in the end as Iran opened the scoring very early into the match, but by half time. Qatar scored twice and took the lead. Just when Iran scored quickly again, after the resumption. However, Qatar had the last laugh as they scored their 3rd and later with Iran going down to 10 men, it was almost impossible to make a comeback again. Congrats to Qatar for making it to the finals. I'm sure not many would've expected them to make it through.  

Unexpected finalists Jordan and Qatar are going to battle it out to win the Asian Cup 2023!

It was a very exciting match between Qatar and Iran in the qualifiers for the final.
By the 80th minute, the score had reached a 2-2 tie before Qatar was able to achieve a third goal due to a gap in the Iranian defense that the players exploited well.
Hope returned to Iran when the referee granted 13 minutes of stoppage time, but they were surprised by the exit of an Iranian player after receiving a red card after he had previously received a yellow card.

Thus, the Arabs secured the Asian Cup, since the final will be between Jordan and Qatar, the host of the tournament.

All Asian football fans did not expect Jordan to be able to beat South Korea and reach the final round because Jordan was not good during the group stage. History will happen if Jordan manages to win the Asian Cup if he manages to beat Iran or Qatar who are still playing to a draw.

Iran and Qatar are equally strong in their game. However, Qatar is more daring in carrying out attacks with the number of shots reaching more than 10 times now.
Qatar in the first half was better in attack because Afif played quite agile.
Until 77 minutes into the second half, it was still not certain who would win. Maybe an extension of time will occur.

Update: Qatar are now 2-3 up and a goal has just happened.

Qatar has an advantage in this match, this time Qatar is the host. Which makes Qatar much more enthusiastic about reaching the final later. I saw Iran lose 1-2 in the first round against Qatar, I am still optimistic that Iran will score another goal in the second half. And optimistic that Iran can advance to the final.

In fact, I had suspected that South Korea would not qualify for the final since before yesterday's match started. I have even said that the pattern of play used by South Korea plays too much ball and they make short passes too often. And their weakness is that they don't like making shot attempts from long distance. or make fast attacks without making many short passes. But what I still didn't expect until now was Japan. Because the Japanese national team has high skill and aggressiveness. It's just that sometimes they lose accuracy when they are in front of the opponent's goal.

Congratulations to Jordan for successfully advancing to the final. And now Jordan just has to wait to see whether Iran or Qatar will be their opponents in the final round. I favor Iran even though I understand that Qatar could be superior mentally. But I started to like the pattern of play developed by Iran like when they managed to beat Japan.

The ideal final between South Korea vs Iran has failed and as a substitute for South Korea, there will be Jordan who is ready to wait for Iran in the final. As we know, South Korea's defeat was unexpected and they were even pressured by Jordan's play. The result was 2-0 in Jordan's favor and they advanced to the Asian Cup final after defeating one of this year's champion candidates.

Actually, with a result like that, we also have to be wary of other possibilities, such as Qatar succeeding in beating Iran later and this will be a mindblowing final like never before. For example, in the final round Jordan vs Qatar will break all previous predictions and superior teams such as Japan, Iran and Korea will be eliminated. But what is clear is that we will know the answer later and of course we are waiting for the results of the match between hosts Qatar and Iran which will take place in one hour.

We still have to wait a few more hours to see how the semi-final match will go because after all, until now the two teams are still quite balanced.

Iran and Qatar still have the same chance in terms of probability because after all in terms of strength and performance they are still balanced and everything can still happen when balanced strength like this happens.
I still feel that until now Iran will still advance to the final in this match because after all with all the advantages they have now, it is certain that Iran will be the favorite in this match.
But the match could be reversed because Qatar could be unexpected and reflecting on the previous match between Korea and Jordan I think South Korea is the favorite but with the heat of the tension and some unexpected things happening then everything is possible and Jordan can win by 2 goals.
This of course could also happen in today match. 

But it seems like we have too high hopes for South Korea in this match. because it turns out that South Korea lost quite painfully. They controlled the ball throughout the game but they had difficulty penetrating Jordan's defense. And yeah losing 2-0 was really beyond everyone's expectations. Now I am starting to understand that South Korea's playing pattern is not that aggressive. And this has been detrimental to them. In contrast to Jordan who took bold steps in every attack they made.

It looks like South Korea and Japan have had bad luck in the Asian Cup. But they are always quite lucky in the FIFA World Cup.