Asian Cup 2011 in Qatar - After the first day

Group A: foul weather for Arab countries

At opening of the competition, the qatarien organizer was logically beaten by an attractive team of Uzbekistan ( 0-2 ). The selection of Central Asia shares the head of the group with China which suffered to beat a team of Kuwait reduced to ten ( 2-0 ).

Results :
Qatar 0-2 (half-time: 0-0) Uzbekistan

Goals: Akhmedov (58'), Djeparov (77')

Yellow card: Qatar : Rizik (63')

Qatar : (1) Qasem Burhan/(2) Hamid Ismael – (6) Bilal Mohamed(c) – (18) Ibrahim Al Ghanim – (13)

Ibrahim Majed/(11) Fábio César (80' (12) Yusef Ahmed) – (4) Lawrence Quaye – (7) Wesam Rizik –

(10) Hussain Yaser (61' (14) Khalfan Ibrahim)/(9) Jaralla Al-Marri (62' (16) Mohamed Al Sayed) – (23)

Sebastián Soria

Coach : Bruno Metsu

Uzbekistan : (12) Ignatiy Nesterov/(22) Victor Karpenko – (4) Anzur Ismailov – (9) Odil Akhmedov

- (6) Sakhob Juraev (53' (14) Stanislav Andreev)/(16) Maksim Shatskikh – (7) Azizbek Haydarov – (8)

Server Djeparov(c) – (18) Timur Kapadze – (19) Jasur Khasanov (66' (17) Sanjar Tursunov)/(15)

Alexander Geynrikh (89' (13) Olim Novkarov)

Coach : Vadim Avramov

Kuwait 0-2 (0-0) China

Goals: Zhang Linpeng (58'), Deng Zhuoxiang (67')

Yellow cards: Kuwait : Al Taher (11'), Al Ateeqi (66'); China : Qu Bo (33')

Red card: Kuwait : Neda (36')

Kuwait : (22) Nawal Al Khaldi(c)/(2) Yaqoub Al Taher – (4) Hussain Fadhel – (6) Amer Matoug – (13)

Musaed Neda/(7) Fahed Al Enezi (84' (16) Hamad Nayef) – (14) Talal Al Amer – (15) Walied Ali (72'

(21) Abdulaziz Mashan) – (18) Jarah Al Ateeqi – (20) Yousef Naser (38' (3) Fahad Awad)/(17) Bader

Al Mutwa

Coach : Goran Tufegdžić

China : (1) Yang Zhi/(4) Zhao Peng (59' (13) Liu Jianye) – (5) Du Wei(c) – (17) Zhang Linpeng – (20)

Rong Hao/(7) Zhao Xuri (77' (15) Yu Tao) – (10) Deng Zhuoxiang – (11) Qu Bo (46' (8) Hao Junmin) –

(19) Yang Hao – (21) Yu Hai/(9) Yang Xu

Coach : Gao Hongbo

Classification:
( Hurt, played matches, victories, draw, defeats, marked purposes, taken purposes, goal difference)
1. China, Uzbékistan (3, 1, 1, 0, 0, 2, 0, +2)
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2. Kuwait, Qatar (0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 2, -2)


Group B: a double surprise

Japan widely dominated Jordan but has of to fight for tearing away the draw at any end of match in front of a catchy and solid team ( 1-1 ). Saudi Arabia would have been able to take advantage of it but it was surprised by the Syrian Tom Thumb (undone 1-2) who thus occupies in the general surprise the head of the group.


Results :
Japan 1-1 (0-1) Jordan

Goals: Japan : Yoshida (90'); Jordan : Abdel Fattah (45')

Yellow cards: Jordan : Aqel (43'), Abdel Fattah (54')

Japan : (1) Eiji Kawashima/(6) Atsuto Uchida – (22) Maya Yoshida – (4) Yasuyuki Konno – (5) Yuto

Nagatomo/(7) Yasuhito Endo – (17) Makoto Hasebe(c)/(8) Daisuke Matsui (58' (9) Shinji Okazaki) –

(18) Keisuke Honda (90' (14) Jungo Fujimoto) – (10) Shinji Kagawa/(11) Ryoichi Maeda (46' (19)

Tadanari Lee)

Coach : Alberto Zaccheroni

Jordan : (1) Amer Shafi/(3) Suliman Al Salman – (8) Bashar Bani Yassen - (17) Hatem Aqel(c) (80'

(5) Mohammad Al Dmeiri) – (16) Basem Fathi/(7) Amer Deeb – (4) Bahaa Abdelrahman – (15) Shadi

Abu Hashhash – (18) Hasan Abdel Fattah - (9) Odai Al Saify /(14) Abdallah Deeb (72' (21) Ahmad

Abdelhalim)

Coach : Adnan Hamed

Saudi Arabia 1-2 (0-1) Syria

Goals: Saudi Arabia: Al Jassem (60'); Syria : Al Husein (38', 63')

Yellow cards: Saudi Arabia: Ateef (15'), Al Saeed (87'); Syria : Al Hussein (21'), Abduldaim

(87'), Al Husein (87')

Saudi Arabia : (1) Waleed Abdullah/(2) Abdullah Shuhail – (14) Saud Kariri – (3) Osama

Hawsawi – (5) Osama Al Harbi/(6) Ahmed Ateef – (15) Abdoh Autef (46' (17) Tayseer Al Jassem) –

(8) Manaf Aboshgair (67' (18) Nawal Al Abed) – (12) Mishal Al Saeed/(11) Nasser Al Shamrani (56'

(9) Naif Hazazi) – (20) Yasser Al Qahtani(c)

Coach : José Peseiro

Syria : (1) Mosam Balhous(c)/(2) Belal Abduldaim – (3) Ali Dyab – (17) Abdulkader Deka – (13)

Nadim Sabag/(7) Abdulrazak Al Husein – (5) Feras Ismail/(6) Jehad Al Hussien (77' (9) Qussai Habib)

– (19) Sanharib Malki (66' (11) Adel Abdullah) – (14) Wael Ayan(84' (23) Samer Aouad)/(12)

Mohamad Al Zino

Coach : Valeriu Tiţa

Classification:
1. Syria (3, 1, 1, 0, 0, 2, 1, +1)
2. Japan, Jordan (1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0)
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4. Saudi Arabia (0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1 ,2 -1)


Group C: the favourites take place

Australia takes the head of the group thanks to its wide victory on a team of India apparently not at the level ( 4-0). South Korea had more evil but is also compulsory, in front of Bahrain ( 2-1 ).

Results :
India 0-4 (0-3) Australia

Goals: Cahill (11', 65'), Kewell (25'), Holman (45')

India : (1) Subratra Paul/(17) Surkumar Singh – (19) Gouramangi Singh – (5) Anwar Ali – (12) Deepak

Kumar Mandal/(23) Steven Dias (79' (8) Renedy Singh) – (20) Climax Lawrence(c) – (7)

Naduparambil Pappachen Pradeep (61' (16) Merajuddin Wadoo) – (22) Syem Rachid Nabi/(18)

Mohammed Rafi (63' (9) Abhishek Yadav) – (11) Sunil Chhetri

Coach : Bob Houghton

Australia : (1) Mark Schwarzer/(8) Luke Wilkshire – (2) Lucas Neill(c) – (6) Saša Ogenovski – (3)

David Carney/(7) Brett Emerton (77' (11) Nathan Burns) – (5) Jason Čulina – (15) Mile Jedinak (62'

(17) Matt McKay) – (14) Brett Holman/(10) Harry Kewell (72' (9) Scott McDonald) – (4) Tim Cahill

Coach : Holger Osieck

South Korea 2-1 (0-1) Bahrain

Goals: South Korea : Koo Ja-Cheol (40', 52'); Bahreïn : Aaish (86' sp)

Yellow cards: South Korea: Lee Jung-Soo (81'); Bahreïn : Aaish (54')

Red card: South Korea: Kwak Tae-Hwi (83')

South Korea : (1) Jung Sung-Ryong/(22) Cha Du-Ri – (5) Kwak Tae-Hwi – (14) Lee Jung-Soo – (12)

Lee Young-Pyo/(6) Lee Young-Rae – (16) Ki Sung-Yong/(17) Lee Chung-Yong – (7) Park Ji-Sung(c) –

(13) Koo Ja-Cheol (78' (19) Yeom Ki-Hoon)/(10) Ji Dong-Won (68' (11) Son Heung-Min (85' (4) Cho

Yong-Hyung))

Coach : Cho Kwang-Rae

Bahrain : (1) Mahmood Mansoor/(15) Abdulla Omar – (3) Abdulla Marzooqi – (23) Ebrahim

Meshkhas – (2) Rashed Al Hooti/(11) Ismaeel Abdulatif (79' (20) Abdulla Al Dakeel) – (4) Abdulla

Fatadi – (12) Faouzi Aaish –(17) Husain Baba (11' (7) Hamad Rakea) – (13) Mahmood Abdulrahman

(69' (6) Abbas Ayyad)/(8) Jaycee John

Coach : Salman Sharida

Classification:

 1. Australia (3, 1, 1, 0, 0, 4, 0, +4)
2. South Korea(3, 1, 1, 0, 0, 2, 1, +1)
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3. Bahrain (0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 2, -1)
4. India (0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 4, -4)


Group D : Iran takes place

North Korea and United Arab Emirates did not manage to decide (0-0). To note that during this match the North Korean captain Hong Yong-Jo missed a penalty. Iran took advantage of it to take the head thanks to its victory in the Derby in front of titleholder, Iraq ( 2-1 ).

Results :
North Korea 0-0 (0-0) United Arab Emirates

Yellow cards: North Korea : Cha Jong-Hyok (12'), Pak Nam-Chol II (25'); United Arab Emirates :

Al Kamali (7')

North Korea : (1) Ri Myong-Guk/(2) Cha Jong-Hyok – (14) Pak Nam-Chol II – (5) Ri Kwang-Chon

– (12) Jon Kwang-Ik/(23) Kim Kuk-Jin – (17) An Yong-Hak – (7) Ryang Yong-Ji – (4) Pak Nam-Chol

(79' (6) Choe Myong-Ho)/(10) Hong Yong-Jo(c) (49' (19) An Chol-Hyok) – (9) Jong Tae-Se (83' (21)

Pak Chol-Min)

Coach : Jo Tong-Sop

United Arab Emirates : (1) Majed Nasser/(2) Khalid Sebil – (8) Hamdan Al Kamali – (14) Walid Abbas

– (17) Yousef Jaber/(5) Amer Abdulrahman – (4) Subait Khater(c)/(7) Ali Al Wehaibi (90' (9)

Mohamed Al Shehhi) – (10) Ismail Matar (90' (23) Omar Abdulrahman) – (15) Ismail Al Hammadi/

(11) Ahmad Khalil (77' (20) Saeed Al Kathiri)

Coach : Srečko Katanec

Iraq 1-2 (1-1) Iran

Goals: Irak : Mahmood (13'); Iran : Rezaei (42'), Mobali (84')

Yellow card: Iraq : Samer Saeed (83')

Iraq : (12) Mohammed Kassid/(14) Salam Shaker (46' (21) Ahmed Ibrahim) – (16) Samal Saeed –

(15) Ali Erhaima – (18) Mahdi Kareem/(4) Qusay Muneer (88' (9) Mustafa Kareem) – (5) Nashat

Akram – (17) Ala'a Abdulzehra – (11) Hawar Mohammed/(7) Emad Mohammed (82' (8) Samer

Saeed) – (10) Younus Mahmood(c)

Coach : Wolfgang Sidka

Iran : (1) Mahdi Rahmati/(20) Mohammad Nosrati – (5) Hadi Aghili – (4) Jalal Hosseini – (11) Ehsan

Haji Safi/(7) Gholam Reza Rezaei – (6) Javad Nekounam(c) – (14) Anderanik Teymourian – (23)

Iman Mobali (87' (18) Pejman Nouri)/(19) Mohammad Gholami (84' (10) Karim Ansari Fard) – (8)

Masoud Shojaei (69' (9) Mohammad Reza Khalatbari)

Coach : Afshin Ghotbi

Classification:
1. Iran (3, 1, 1, 0, 0, 2, 1, +1)
2. North Korea, United Arab Emirates (1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0)
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4. Iraq (0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 2, -1)


Classification of the strikers:

1. Tim Cahill (Australia) ; Koo Ja-Cheol (South Korea) ; Abdulrazak Al Husein (Syria) : 2 goals
4. Tayseer Al Jassem (Saudi Arabia) ; Brett Holman, Harry Kewell (Australia) ; Faouzi Aaish (Bahrain) ; Deng Zhuoxiang, Zhang Linpeng (China) ;Younus Mahmood (Iraq) ; Iman Mobali, Gholam Reza Rezaei (Iran) ; Maya Yoshida (Japan) ; Hasan Abdel Fattah (Jordan) ; Odil Akhmedov, Server Djeparov (Uzbékistan) : 1 goal

Karim

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