Friendly fire helps Japan and evaporates the Yemeni youth’s dream of reaching the Asian Nations final

Yemen were eliminated from Asian Nations Youth Cup qualifiers after losing 1-0 to Japan, not finishing second in Group C.

The first half of the match ended in a 0-0 draw and, according to the Yemeni Football Association correspondent, the Japanese team failed to shoot any ball into the goal, amid the great brilliance of the Yemeni midfielders and defense.

The youth teams of Yemen continued to resist in the second half and tried to snatch the winning goal on more than one occasion – according to the correspondent of the Yemeni Federation -.

But a goal of friendly fire in deadly timing, by defender Jamil Al-Dabai, in the 84th minute, wasted the splendid work done by his colleagues during the two halves of the match.

The expected confrontation of the Yemeni U20 youth team against the Japanese counterpart, started at nine this morning on Sunday (GMT), 11:00 local time. Egypt12:00 KSA time.

The Asian Football Confederation and the Laos Organizing Committee refused to broadcast the match live, after preventing the Yemeni Federation’s official Facebook page director from using the federation’s camera to broadcast the match’s events to the public.

The Yemeni national team played today’s match with a formation composed of “Bassam Farid 1 – Muhammad Naji 4 – Hisham Balabil 13 – Imad Al-Jadima 5 – Faisal Al-Maaroufi 2 – Alaa Osha 8 – Jamil Al-Daba’i 15 – Hassan Al-Komani 6 – Abdul Rahman Al-Shami 10 – Muhammad Bouchi 7. ” Hamza Mahrous 20 ».

With the victory over Yemen, Japan led the group with full points (12 points in 4 games), becoming the first to qualify for the AFC U-20 Nations Cup, to be held in Uzbekistan in 2023.

The Yemen challenge is the most difficult for Japan in these qualifiers, as they beat the trio of “Laos, Guam and Palestine” with sweeping results and scored a total of 21 goals, but the Japanese computer had a hard time deciphering it. Yemeni defense today.

The Asian Nations Youth Qualification system provides for the cancellation of points and goals scored against the bottom of the group if it includes 5 teams. This means that the Yemeni team was eliminated from qualifying with 4 points in second place, not 7 points, after having nullified their result against the last “Guam”.

Palestine are in third place within a point of equalization with Yemen after having nullified their points against Guam.

The Palestinian national team has a unique opportunity to reach the Asian youth finals if they win by a large score over Laos later today.

The bench of the youth of Yemen

On the bench of the Yemen substitutes were “Ahmed Al-Sawadi – Abdul Rahman Al-Raymi – Muhammad Radi – Muhammad Al-Dambar – Hassan Ayyash – Mamdouh bin Ajaj – Zakaria Al-Tatouf – Muhammad Al-Shami – Osama Makraf – Osama Al- Matari – Ammar Al-Qubati – Qasim Al-Sharafi ”.

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