The national football team now has one scenario to qualify directly for the World Cup, by winning its remaining four matches, to ensure that it obtains one of the two nomination cards, without looking specifically at the results of the Uzbek national team.
The national team succeeded in maintaining its chances of reaching the World Cup after the historic victory it achieved over its Qatari counterpart by five clean goals, in the sixth round of the first group of the Asian qualifiers for the World Cup.
The qualification scenario may move from “White” to the hands of its competitors, in the event of a draw with Iran, because then the difference between it and the “runner-up” Uzbekistan team, which is strongly favored to win over Kyrgyzstan, will expand to five points, and the national team will need to win over the Uzbek team and wait for the latter to draw. In any subsequent match.
The national team’s qualification will continue to be in the hands of others if it loses to Iran, as it will need to win over Uzbekistan, and for any other team to give it the gift of victory over the Uzbek team, provided that our team maintains the three-goal difference that gives it the advantage.
The “Whites” will play the next two matches in the seventh and eighth rounds away from home against Iran and North Korea, then they will welcome Uzbekistan in the ninth round, and conclude their matches by meeting Kyrgyzstan at the latter’s stadium.
“Al-Abyad” killed more than one bird with one stone after the great victory over its Qatari guest, as it raised its score to 10 points, maintained the three-point difference with the runner-up Uzbek team with 13 points, and broke up the partnership with the Qatari team for third place, awaiting the expected confrontation with them. Against Iran in the seventh round, scheduled for next March 20.
Al-Abyad also succeeded in coming out with a clean sheet for the second match in a row, becoming the strongest team in defense in Group A, after conceding only four goals during its six matches in the qualifiers, ahead of the Iranian and Uzbek teams who conceded five goals. Al-Abyad also comes in first with Iran. In terms of scoring goals, each of them has 12 goals, with a difference of eight goals in their favour.
The “third” cards are scattered… and 3 points are enough for Japan to qualify
The cards were scattered in the third group, after the end of the sixth round matches, which witnessed several surprises, most notably the loss of the Saudi team to its Indonesian counterpart, with two unanswered goals, a loss that recorded a negative record for “Al-Akhdar” that it had never achieved since 1985, when it played four matches. In the World Cup qualifiers without scoring any goals.
The Saudi team’s balance froze at six points, equal to the teams of Indonesia, Bahrain and China in the same number of points, with a relative advantage for the Australian team, which occupies second place with seven points from an exciting draw against its host Bahrain in stoppage time, and the conflict ignites in the group that… All possibilities have become wide open, while the Japanese team continues its series of strong performances and results in the group after defeating the Chinese Dragon with three unanswered goals, raising its score to 16 points, and now needs only three points to officially seal its qualification for the 2026 World Cup.
Iraq is the largest beneficiary in the second group
The teams of the second group provided the greatest service to the Iraqi team, while its Jordanian counterpart was the biggest loser from the round.
The “Lions of Mesopotamia” succeeded in repeating its victory over the Omani national team, and returned from Muscat with its three most important points when it won with an unanswered goal, raising its score to 11 points in second place, so things became more difficult for the Omani national team after its score froze at six points.
The South Korean national team fell into a 1-1 draw against the Palestine national team, which was the same result as the two teams’ match in the first round, raising the Korean national team’s score to 14 points in the lead, while the Palestinian national team is still in last place with three points.
The Jordanian team stumbled in a draw against the penultimate Kuwaiti team (four points), after they tied 1-1, in a scenario repeating the result of their match in the first round that took place in Amman, so that “Al-Nashama” moved away from second place, and fell a step back to third place (nine points). ).
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