On the 13th, in the first round of the Asian Cup in Qatar in the group stage, A group of Chinese men's football due to Zhu Chenjie's goal was blown, and finally played with the new Asian Cup Tajikistan, failed to achieve "open red". The Australian team is 2B group. The team is the first in the group: 0 to beat India, temporarily ranked first in the group.
In the first half of the match between the national football team and Tajikistan, Tajikistan had a lot of chances to break through the goal, only because of the bad shooting skills, the national football team goalkeeper Yan Junling repeatedly shot and failed to score. In the second half, Zhang Yuning, Xu Xin, Lin Liangming and Xie Pengfei played well one after another, helping the national soccer team to get a few chances to break through, but they never broke through the opponent's city.
Tajikistan's Jalilov (center) attacks with a barb during a match on January 13th.
China's best scoring chance came in the 80th minute. Zhu Chenjie jumped high in the opponent's penalty area and broke the goal with a header. However, after watching the video replay, the referee concluded that Jiang Guangtai near the goal line made physical contact with the opposing player when Zhu Chenjie attacked and invalidated the goal on the grounds that Jiang Guangtai benefited from his position to stop the opposing player from defending. China had another chance to break through in the 86th minute. Xie Pengfei came close to scoring a header on a cross from the left by Lin Liangming. After the match, China's head coach Jankovic praised the partnership and expressed regret that the chance could not be converted into a goal.
Chinese player Zhu Chenjie (second from right) attacks a header during a match on January 13, which was later ruled out due to offside.
The disallowance of Zhu Chenjie's goal caused much controversy. Some referees argued that the core issue was whether the player affected the defender's ability to handle the ball and whether the defender had the opportunity or ability to contest the ball.
After the game, Zhu Chenjie said that he could not comment on the referee's decision, or to do well.
After this game, the national soccer team has only one point and must play well in their group games against Lebanon and Qatar to guarantee advancement.
Chinese players after the game on January 13th.
On the day, two matches were staged in Group B. The first was a clash between Australia and India. Looking at the world rankings alone, Australia's 25th place is much higher than India's 102nd place, but India put in a strong first half performance and held off their opponents on several occasions as both sides went scoreless in the first half. In the second half, Australia gradually showed their strength with Jackson Irvine and Jordan Bose scoring a goal each to finish with 2 goals. :0 win.
In the other game, Uzbekistan and Syria talked to each other.
