Anyone still following it? 

Who do you want to win it and get the Olympic spots? 

Quarter-finals



25 April – Al Rayyan (Jassim)


Qatar

29 April – Al Rayyan (Jassim)

Japan



26 April – Al Wakrah



Iraq

3 May – Al Rayyan (Jassim)

Vietnam



25 April – Doha



South Korea

29 April – Doha

Indonesia



26 April – Al Rayyan (Khalifa)



Uzbekistan

2 May – Doha

Saudi Arabia

Whoever will make NZ's life easier.

will check results for games involving australia group opponents

robbie slater contrasted the prep for this tournament and arnie's

apparently 10 day camp with 2 warm up matches

It is a valid point

They played the WAFF!?

That was 3 games.

Slater is an idiot 

That was the biggest bs red card of all time for Qatar 

at least it is reassurance they aren't facing favourable reffing all the time

3 headed goal and a long range goal after a high turnover. Remarkable how tight its been with so few goals from open play in the games involving our group

Watching japan struggle against 10 man qatar i do wonder about that missed pen and what might have been....

Still wouldn't have gotten through. No surprise Indonesia beating South Korea right now. 

if we entered the game gauranteed to go through if we got a win it might have been different. Anyway

Japan and south korea can't beat qatar and indonesia in normal time which is somewhat mitigating

Yeah turns out we had quite a tough group

Indonesia Sth Korea goes to pens. South Kores save to win but he was off his line. Retake converted. Indonesia save next and then miss their potentially winning pen.

Finally. Indonesia win 11:10 on penalties.

Ceazy pen shootout

Takes the sting of our loss to south korea, after all we drew with sk in the waff with a similar team

Well done Indonesia, it doesn’t make it any better for us but it shows how challenging our group was.

And we had opportunities to do better so a missed opportunity for us to get out of the group considering the opposition.

I hope for their sake they can qualify for the Olympics, it would be huge for their country. 

They did qualify the olympics.

Beating South Korea puts them in the top 4. The top 4 go through.

not quite - they need to win their semi final too.

Otherwise, they need to beat Guinea in a playoff to qualify

yeah win 1 of the next 3 matches and they are through

either the semi, the 3rd place playoff or the intercontinental playoff

It's just their best team. Their senior squad is basically an U23 team. 

No shame preparing for the future, I thought they did quite well in the senior Asian cup against us as the 4-0 scoreline was flattering. 

Uzbekistan defeat Saudi Arabia 2:0. Uzbekistan hurt have a team blue print. They speak the same language. We have skill but unfortunately still come across as a bunch of individuals. 

Iraq beat Vietnam 1:0 so that's Japan vs Iraq and Indonesia vs Uzbekistan. 

Semis on today

If anyone posting here wants more stats go into Grazor's thread on comprehensive background info for the Olyroos. Not all the passing stats have been quite completed. One might need a few more days for them to appear.

The shooting stats have appeared.

I've assiduously compiled stats for Aus's three games. It will be hard to believe it  from fans reading this, bit Aus U23s dominated all three games everywhere except the scoreboard - which is very important!

uzbeks score

don't uzbeks have their u23s play in their domestic league?

some of the prep our rivals put in is insane

red card to indonesia and goal for uzbeks. Indonesia will need to win one of the next two matches to make the olympics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNKhvhwimxA

Japan Iraq now

Japan win