Qatar’s ahead Almoez Ali (C) celebrates with teammates after scoring his staff’s match-winning aim (Credit: AFP)
Almoez Ali struck in Doha to ship Qatar into their second straight ultimate, additional exorcising the demons of their first-round exit on the 2022 World Cup.
Hosts and holders Qatar squeezed into an Asian Cup ultimate showdown with Jordan after beating Iran 3-2 with an 82nd-minute winner in a frenetic semi-final on Wednesday.
Almoez Ali struck in Doha to ship Qatar into their second straight ultimate, additional exorcising the demons of their first-round exit on the 2022 World Cup.
Qatar misplaced all three of their World Cup video games on house soil simply over a 12 months in the past, the worst document of any host within the competitors’s historical past.
But that was all a distant reminiscence as they celebrated in entrance of over 40,000 followers after a breathless encounter at Al Thumama Stadium.
Sardour Azmoun gave Iran the lead within the fourth minute earlier than Qatar equalised quickly after when Jassem Gaber’s shot went in through a heavy deflection.
Qatar’s Akram Afif then notched his fifth aim of the event with a beautiful strike minutes earlier than half-time, just for Iran to equalise by an Alireza Jahanbakhsh penalty early within the second interval.
Match-winner Ali scored an Asian Cup-record 9 targets to guide Qatar to their first title in 2019 however he had managed just one heading into the semi-finals of this 12 months’s event.
His late strike was well worth the look ahead to Qatar, and ended Iran’s bid for a primary Asian title since 1976.
Iran had Shojae Khalilzadeh despatched off in second-half harm time, earlier than Jahanbakhsh hit the submit within the ultimate minute.
The sport had barely begun when Azmoun gave Iran the lead with a well-taken end, hooking the ball over his head and into the web.
Mehdi Taremi ought to have made it two when Jahanbakhsh teed him up in entrance of aim quickly after, and Qatar made them pay with the equaliser within the seventeenth minute.
Afif pulled the ball again for Gaber, whose shot on aim deflected off Iran’s Saeed Ezatolahi and looped up over goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand.
Iran had been incensed that no foul had been given within the build-up.
The equaliser gave Qatar new power however Afif didn’t take benefit in a one-on-one with Beiranvand simply after the half-hour mark.
Afif made no mistake within the forty third minute, curling house an outstanding strike after jinking his manner into the field.
Iran regrouped at half-time and drew stage simply six minutes after the break.
A VAR verify dominated that Qatar defender Ahmed Fatehi had blocked a goal-bound shot together with his hand, and Jahanbakhsh made no mistake from the penalty spot.
The motion continued at breakneck pace and Ali restored Qatar’s lead when he managed a shot from Abdulaziz Hatem and turned it previous Beiranvand.
There was greater than a touch of offside concerning the aim nevertheless it was allowed to face.
(This story has not been edited by News18 workers and is printed from a syndicated news company feed – AFP)
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