Hosts and holders Qatar retaliated to overcome Palestine 2-1 and arrive at the Asian Cup quarter-finals on Monday, joining a Jordan side who struck two times in injury time to daze Iraq. Qatar will confront the champ of Tuesday’s last-16 gathering among Uzbekistan and Thailand, the most reduced positioned group left in Doha at 113 on the planet. A little kid in the group at the tent-like Al-Bayt Arena north of Doha held up a sign that said “Sorry Palestine” after the last whistle.
Palestine mentor Makram Daboub said he was glad for his “champions” as their best Asian Cup reached a conclusion in the last 16.
Palestine were playing in the knockout rounds interestingly and, against the background of the Israel-Hamas battle an in the Palestinian area of Gaza, took an unexpected first-half lead.
Straight from beating Hong Kong 3-0 for their most memorable success in the opposition’s set of experiences, Palestine made a brilliant beginning and Oday Dabbagh terminated them ahead on 37 minutes.
He and his partners celebrated by crossing their brought arms up in a cuffs motion to represent the predicament of the Palestinian public.
Qatar had neglected to get comfortable front of a hopeful home group and the Palestinians, positioned 99 to the hosts’ 58, were longing for making more history by progressing despite everything.
In any case, commander Hassan Al-Haydos acted the hero on the stroke of half-time when he smashed the ball past goalkeeper Rami Hamada after a corner was perfectly scaled back to him by Akram Afif.
Four minutes after the break Afif scored his fourth objective of the competition, from the punishment spot, and Qatar traveled through the remainder of the match.
Daboub said his players “gave everything in spite of the truly challenging conditions”.
“I can’t request anything else from them – – they have regarded Palestinian football,” he said.
The participation of in excess of 60,000 implied this eighteenth version is as of now the most-watched Asian Cup with 1.06 million individuals through the gates up until this point, beating the 1.04 million who went to in China in 2004.
– Jordan’s dazzling rebound –
Jordan will meet Tajikistan in the quarter-finals in the wake of scoring two times quickly somewhere down in stoppage time to beat Iraq 3-2.
There were turbulent scenes in Iraq’s post-match question and answer session when irate Iraqi correspondents faced the group’s Spanish mentor Jesus Casas, before security stepped in to usher them away.
“It torments me what worked out,” Casas said of the episode.
Jordan had a man advantage after the 77th-minute excusal of Aymen Hussein – – reserved for celebrating – – yet peered out for the count in injury time, just for Yazan Al-Middle Easterner to nudge in a 95th-minute leveler.
Assuming that was difficult to accept, better was to come two minutes after the fact for Jordan when Nizar Al-Rashdan nestled into fresh to fire the longshots into the last eight and flash wild festivals.
Iraq’s devastated players were forgotten about level on the turf, their fantasies about rehashing the country’s fantasy 2007 Asian Cup title some way or another grabbed from their grip.
Jordan’s mentor Hussein Ammouta concurred with Casas that the unforgiving excusal of Hussein briefly yellow card for over-commending his thought process was Iraq’s champ changed the game.
“The last part had a place with them, they scored two objectives and afterward needed to go on with 10 players,” said the Moroccan.
Jordan, who held South Korea 2-2 in the gathering stage, next face a Tajikistan side who are one of the unexpected bundles of the opposition on their Asian Cup debut.
On Tuesday, Jurgen Klinsmann’s South Korea play Roberto Mancini’s Saudi Arabia for the option to confront Australia in the last eight.
