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Asian Cup Quarter-finals

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#1 ·
Keep all discussions about the Quarter-finals here please

July 21 - Japan vs Australia
July 21 - Iraq vs Vietnam
July 22 - Iran vs Korea Republic
July 22 - Saudi Arabia vs Uzbekistan
 
#3 ·
dog said:
Keep all discussions about the Quarter-finals here please

July 21 - Japan vs Australia
July 21 - Iraq vs Vietnam
Iraq is obviously the heavy favourite going to this match, however our recent record against Middle Eastern team is quite good: beat Oman & Lebanon in Olympic qualification, beat Bahrain 5-3 in a pre-tournament friendly, beat UAE 2-0 & drew Qatar in group stage. We also expect to have the support of 5000 + fans in the Rajamangala stadium (about 3000 people bought the $300 tour going to Bangkok so far). Therefore I would give Vietnam 20-30% winning chance

For the other match, I have a feeling the Aussie will scrape through somehow, they might played like crap against weaker team but against Japan it could be a different story.
 
#4 ·
dog said:
Keep all discussions about the Quarter-finals here please

July 21 - Japan vs Australia
July 21 - Iraq vs Vietnam
July 22 - Iran vs Korea Republic
July 22 - Saudi Arabia vs Uzbekistan

oh , so difficult matches to the whole teams .. I wish to be interesting matches , show and a lot of goals of course . ;)

To be honest , i can see Iraq beat Vietnam . There is a gap between both teams .
 
#5 ·
dog said:
July 21 - Japan vs Australia
July 21 - Iraq vs Vietnam
July 22 - Iran vs Korea Republic
July 22 - Saudi Arabia vs Uzbekistan
I can see Iran and Saudia Arabia in the semi-final already. Ill give Vietnam an advantage over Iraq, but a totally equal game for me is Japan - Australia. heres the chance for Japan to make a revenge for the WC defeat!
 
#6 ·
dog said:
July 21 - Japan vs Australia
July 21 - Iraq vs Vietnam
July 22 - Iran vs Korea Republic
July 22 - Saudi Arabia vs Uzbekistan
Japan V Australia should be the cream of the crop, Japan loss to Aus in the world cup 3-1, but one has to remember that even though Japan played shit in the WC, they were still able to hold off the aussie attack for a good 80mins before their defences crumbled to concede 3 goals in the last 10mins. This time round Japan is in great form whilst the Aus team is still finding its feet, i'm predicting a 2-1 to Japan
 
#9 ·
Japan is the best footballing asian nation in late years.They still are.
With all due to respect to iran and korea.But Japan is the best.
Australia's entrance to asia might change this recent domination japan is having.


I call this game between japan & australia the early final.this are the two best nations in this competition playing together.