Starting March 11, 2015(*hosts) ROUND 1 Group A Myanmar* India Sri Lanka Bahrain - withdrew March 11 Sri Lanka vs. Myanmar March 13 India vs. Sri Lanka March 15 Myanmar vs. India Group B Uzbekistan Jordan* Hong Kong Palestine March 11 Uzbekistan vs. Palestine Hong Kong vs. Jordan March 13 Palestine vs. Jordan Hong Kong vs. Uzbekistan March 15 Palestine vs. Hong Kong Jordan vs. Uzbekistan Group C Laos Iran Taiwan* March 20 Laos vs. Taiwan March 22 Iran vs. Laos March 24 Iran vs. Taiwan The 3 group winners advance to round 2 joining Vietnam & Thailand*. The winner of group 2 advances to the final round along with Japan*, North Korea, South Korea, Australia & China. Top two advance to the Olympics.
Group A March 11 Myanmar 16 - Sri Lanka 0 March 13 India 4 - Sri Lanka 0 March 15 Myanmar 7 - India 0 *Myanmar advances to Round 2. Group B March 11 Uzbekistan 6 - Palestine 0 Jordan 1 - Hong Kong 0 March 13 Uzbekistan 1 - Hong Kong 0 Jordan 6 - Palestine 0 March 15 Hong Kong 2 - Palestine 2 Jordan 2 - Uzbekistan 0 *Jordan advances to Round 2
Wow, if Jordan and Uzbek had drawn, would it have gone to PKs, or just a drawing of lots? They beat HK and PAL by the exact same scores!
Group C March 20 Taiwan 4 - Laos 0 March 22 Iran 5 - Laos 1 March 24 Taiwan 1 - Iran 0 *Taiwan advances to second round. Second round to be played from September 14 - 22 in Thailand .
Second Round started today. One group consisting of Taiwan, Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand & Jordan. Winner advances to final round, joining Japan(hosts), China, Australia, North Korea & South Korea. Sept. 14 Taiwan 1 - Vietnam 0 Myanmar 2 - Jordan 0
I would guess that 2nd round winner should be one from match beteen Thailand and Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)
TODAY Vietnam 2 - Jordan 1 Taiwan 0 - Thailand 0 Final Matches Sept. 22 Thailand vs. Vietnam Taiwan vs. Myanmar With Thailand & Taiwan tied at 7 points each, these final matches will determine who advances. Right now Taiwan has the better goal differential [+4].
in today's final matches we saw two upsets sending Vietnam to the final round. Vietnam 2 - Thailand 0 Myanmar 3 - Taiwan 1
North Korea, a team revered for it's freedom to express it's individualism, has just arrived in Japan to partake in the AFC
big games start tomorrow, round robin between 6 teams, no playoffs/championship game. The teams with the two best records take it all! this is on my us central time; 1.35 am China vs Vietnam 4 35 am Australia vs Japan 4.35 am N. Korea vs S. Korea as reported on another thread; Australian game can be seen over here http://www.7live.com.au predictions; China will try to use Vietnam as a punching bag. N Korea over S. Korea, as the latter recently lost friendlies to Mexico & China. Japan vs Australia? tough one! The Matildas have had injuries recently to arguably their two best players, Kerr & Foord, as well to the W-League's leading scorer, Crummer, and their best youth player, Harrison. In the meantime Japan's Bundesliga connection has been a total disaster so far this season; while Iwabuchi & Nakasato are trying to recover from injuries, once considered a world class premier forwards, Ogimi & Ando languish on the sub benches. Hopefully Japan can scrub up some good players from their own home league with the likes Myama & Kawasumi
you can pick up up stream for the Australia-Japan game over here/ Video quality is not good, but it's got English commentary http://www.zhangyu.tv/121013 it's currently halftime..........Australia 2, Japan 1 the Matildas physical play giving Japan a tough time, but to their credit they were able to score in the last few seconds of the half to come back with just one down
Caught most of the China-Vietnam and Japan-Australia matches. A few very general thoughts: Vietnam, as probably expected, was outclassed, though they played extremely hard and have a fairly solid goalkeeper. China was very unimpressive. They controlled play for the most part, especially in the second half, but really did very little to create chances when Vietnam was in their shell. Maybe they'll look better against teams that are more committed to attack. They'll have too, because they have no chance at qualification with more performances like that. I thought Australia played one of the best matches I've ever seen from them. They still need to improve their defensive organization. Japan pulled them apart a few times with skilled combinations, but other times Australia simply lost track of attackers, more than once letting players roam unmarked right down the center of the field. Other than that, the Matildas were fluid, confident and reliable on the ball, and really worked the ball around effectively in the attacking third. They got a nice assist from the referee on their second goal, but in my mind were clearly the better team today. The 1-1 draw between the two Koreas seems a good result for everyone except the two Koreas.
http://matildas.footballaustralia.c...qualifying-thriller/w8bxe2z9ffqf1o7k429xk88f9 I love it when players with the tallness of Gorry and Matheson score on headers. Australia outplaying Japan and winning the game in Japan is significant. Matildas rock.
Don't forget 5-1 LDV scoring on a header as well. And we've seen at least one header from Spencer before.
With 5 games in 10 days, I think we will see some surprises from matchday 3 when players start to tire unless the coaches manage to rotate intelligently but with only 17 outfield players, they do not have much margin. The tie-breaker if teams are level on points in the goal difference, so teams should take advantage of the game against the weaker team Vietnam.
Agree, solid game in defense from Matildas outstanding performance by Williams and finish in front of the goal were crucial to this score line. Australia had few chances but took them all. Japan had many chances but finished only one. Were they better? Yup, they scored more goals. Did they outplay Japan - nah, not really