West Asia, East Asia face the challenge of football shuffle

 2011 Asian Cup group two Harding Park, 16 teams, and yet only Iran would definitely last eight, the increasing strength among the teams close to the group stage of the fight in a more intense and unpredictable.

16 games, 39 goals were scored and averaged 2.4. Not many goals, there are a lot of memorable games.

West pattern of re-shuffling

was difficult to think of the traditional strong teams in Saudi Arabia in the group stage two losses on the two wars, has now become the first expenditure of the current Bureau of Asian Cup ball team. Saudi Arabia and sent 
the West compared to technology flow Saudi Arabia, Syria and Jordan teams play teams closer to the power to send for Western Asia, concise and tough style of play, and their tenacious defense and fast attacks , so that Saudi Arabia of headaches. Now, a team wins a Jordanian peace has become a hot qualifying group B, Syria is not a small team the same chance.

D group of three teams in the West, the ongoing replacement of old power diminished Iran, Iraq and the UAE team are also very powerful team. In particular, the UAE team, two remarkable performance, great re-emergence of the trend.

despite the World Cup in South Africa the figure is not a West team, but West is still an important piece of Asian football map, 9 West team with the Asian Cup finals is the current case in point. Saudi Arabia's defeat and the rise of the Jordanian team, perhaps as a signal: a new pattern is unrest in the West gradually.

East team face the challenge

Asian Cup first round group stage of the good teams in the second round of most of East Asia have encountered some difficulties, in addition to the end of war against India, South Korea team the situation is excellent, but several other teams are in the final game to be desperate for a war.

both Japan and the Korean team into the state slowly. Although the Japanese team group stage two are under control of the game, but goals are Pofeizhouzhe, two games 1 win 1 level, against Saudi Arabia last round. The Korean team two games into a ball without the presence of the surface also in the passive.

World Cup in South Africa, the East Asian football fame, only to find back to the Asian Cup is still a strong enemy waited for opportunities. While were in the same continent, but far away from the region, East, West Asia, the lack of communication between the team. In addition, the team's strength and West Asia to East Asia, the body can lose a lot of the team.

Cup contention.

The reason that the two teams as a Many rare opportunity to participate in international competition of the Asian teams play their difficult to cope with a disadvantage in the confrontation.

Asian Cup in 2007, Uzbekistan and Australia are outside the block in the semi-finals. In Doha, before the two teams in the group were two rounds of competition undefeated, with the present performance, is expected to create better results than 4 years ago.

(Doha, January 16 newspaper Xinhua)