The Olympic national football team lost to its Japanese counterpart with two clean goals, yesterday, at Jassim bin Hamad Stadium in Doha, in the second round of group matches in the AFC U-23 Cup finals currently being held in Qatar, which qualifies for the Paris Olympic Games in 2024. .
This is the second loss in a row for “Olympic White”, after losing in the first round to South Korea and remaining without a score until now, thus losing the opportunity to compete for qualification to the next round, and thus dissipating the dream of qualifying for Paris, even though it has one match left in this round. Against China next Monday, but it is considered an achievement. The Olympic team showed a modest performance and did not provide a convincing technical performance, while the Japanese team jumped to the top of the group with six points, thus ensuring qualification to the next round alongside the South Korean team, which also scored six points by defeating the Olympic team and China, respectively.
The current tournament will be held with the participation of 16 teams divided into four groups. The first and second placed teams from each group qualify for the knockout stage, while the teams that finish in the first three places in the tournament qualify to participate in the Olympic Games, and the fourth placed team will play against Guinea in the playoff.
The Japanese team ended the first half leading with a clean goal through player Seiji Kimura (27) with a header shot, taking advantage of a defensive error, and player Sata Kawasaki added the second goal for Japan (66).
Although Olympic White started the match well and led more than one attempt against Japan’s goal, the most dangerous of which was Hareb Abdullah’s shot at the beginning of the first half, it retreated and lacked good organization and the final touch.
During the match, the Japanese team appeared to be the better and more active side, while goalkeeper Khaled Tawhid prevented more than one dangerous attempt that would have increased the score.
. The Olympic team is awaiting a final match, a “collective one”, against China next Monday.
. Al-Abyad showed a mediocre performance, did not provide a convincing technical result, and lacked good organization and the finishing touch.
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