Asian Cup 2007 thread [R]

yeah its possible
but i don't think Bahrain will qualify

Kuwait is better than Bahrain

 

AFC used to decide seeding of the final tournament with the performance of Last three asian cup final tournaments, thus the ranking will be

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Rankings of 1996,2000,2004 Asian Cup

1.JAPAN              3   16  12  3  1  41- 15  39
2.IRAN               3   15  7   6  2  31- 14  27
3.CHINA              3   16  6   4  6  30- 20  22
4.SAUDI ARABIA       3   15  6   4  5  25- 19  22
5.SOUTH KOREA        3   14  6   3  5  25- 21  21
(again, Big 4 + China holds the top 5 place)
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6.KUWAIT             3   13  4   4  5  15- 17  16
7.IRAQ               3   12  5   1  6  16- 18  16
8.UAE                2   9   4   3  2   9- 8   15
(these are traditional competitive teams)
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9.UZBEKISTAN         3   10  4   2  4  10- 22  14
10.BAHRAIN           1   6   1   3  2  13- 14  6 
11.JORDAN            1   4   1   3  0   3- 1   6 
(Dangerous team, all Sucked in 1996 & 2000 But did well in 2004 )
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12.INDONESIA         3   9   1   2  6   7- 24  5 (Host)
13.OMAN              1   3   1   1  1   4- 3   4 (Dangerous team)
14.QATAR             2   7   0   4  3   5- 9   4 (Dangerous team)
15.SYRIA             1   3   1   0  2   3- 6   3 
16.THAILAND          3   9   0   2  7   5- 26  2 (Host)
17.LEBANON           1   3   0   2  1   3- 7   2
18.TURKMENISTAN      1   3   0   1  2   4- 6   1

so if the highest ranked teams qualify from each group, the pots will be like this:

Pot A: Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia,Vietnam
Pot B: Japan, Iran, China, Saudi Arabia
Pot C: Korea Republic, Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan,
Pot D: Barhrain,Oman, Qatar, Australia

 

Iraq 0 : 1 Palestine

WTF ???

 

I know it's early to predict, and it's also hard to judge too.


The final four in Asian Cup 2007 would be Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Australia.

 

Good job Palestine.

 

they didnt won, it was draw 2-2

 

i think saudi arabia or japan will win asian cup

 

Why....... Australia's European players are not coming?

By the way how did u get the yellow card?

 

No they will be there. But we could end up with Post World Cup Blues.

Although be warned Australia are taking the cup VERY seriously..

 

eh, that's kinda hard to believe when the FFA are taking their sweet ass time to get a real coach, Arnie is just not cutting it

 

However, all the talk pre the Australia-Bahrain game is of how "Australia must secure the group win to get a seeding for the Asian Cup finals."

or:

This would suggest either:
1 - The comments are delusional (and you can't rule that out), or
2 - There will be a new seeding scheme (ditto).

Possible the group winners will be ordered as Edgar has it (seeded 1-6 of the 12 qualifiers) and the runners-up up ranked 7-12.

But then I haven't seen anything official. It does seem odd, however, that it's always described as "a seeding". There is NO WAY we can be 1-4 unless they rank via FIFA ranks - we would have to be 6th (if group winners get preference), which is hardly a "seed".

J

 

Group A

Saudi Arabia 15 Q
Japan 12 Q
Yemen 3
India 0

Group B

Korea Republic 11 Q
Iran 11 Q
Syria 5
Chinese Taipei 0

Group C

Oman 12 Q
UAE 10 Q
Jordan 7
Pakistan 0

Group D

Australia 9 Q
Kuwait 4
Bahrain 1

Group E

Iraq 10 Q
China 10 Q
Singapore 4
Palestine 4

Group F

Qatar 15 Q
Uzbekistan 8
Hong Kong 5
Bangladesh 5

 

Congratulations to China & greenlion
But Bangladesh have Zero Points

 

Yeah~

Yeah~ thanks for correct me

 

Apart from the saudis, qatar also maintained a perfect record.

Congrats to qatar fans at big soccer, if there are any.

 

all good things come to an end

 

Huh
Bro when did you get a yellow card and why?

While Saudiarabia tears every team coming in their way in Asia, Meanwhile maybe you should worry about Australia. Heard they won only by 2-0 against Bahraini kids.

 

We do need to work on stuff for sure, but on the other hand the Bahraini's were diving (or collapsing) every time ( double what the italians do) the ref had a shocker with letting things go for bahran but not us. And they were pretty much playing all men behind the ball, even when we were in the box.

Terrible game

 

Welcome to Asia bro............

Here's what happened between the Saudi and Yemen game today.......

But still managed to score 5 goals

Saudis stay perfect in qualifiers

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Atleast Bahrain were playing some attacking football

Socceroos guarantee top spot

 

Just don't know why China do pretty well in Asia cups while always suck in world cup qualifications