As the Asian Cup enters the round of 16 stage, after 3 matches, everyone has already "seen the sun", and it is a good time to buy the "champions" before it's too late.
Among the top 16, Japan and South Korea are supposed to be the strongest teams, but South Korea's last match in the group stage was a 3:3 draw with Malaysia. Even if it is a deliberate route, it can't avoid Japan, but it can't avoid Saudi Arabia who has the advantage of half of the home field, and with a defense that has conceded 6 goals in 3 group stage matches, it is by no means certain to win.
It's all good signatures from the group stage to the knockout rounds.
Japan is also not without worries, ace Kaoru Sanfelt is still recovering from injury, and from the team's defeat against Iraq, Japan once faced with high speed and sharp counter-attacking teams tend to lose, the test will not be too big for Bahrain in the round of 16, but after advancing to the first level, no matter whether it's against Iran or Syria, the chances of winning is not the pressure of a one.
The team with the best performance so far is actually Australia. The team won 2, drew 1 and conceded only 1 goal in the group stage, and shut out their opponents in the first two matches, so their defense is very hard and clean. The only goal they conceded was due to the fact that they were sure to get out of the group stage, and then they went out to fight against Uzbekistan with half of their strength.
