Making Saudi Arabia the former king, U.23 Uzbekistan played Indonesia in the Asian semi-finals

Before the match took place (on the evening of April 26), the confrontation between U.23 Saudi Arabia and U.23 Uzbekistan in the quarterfinals of the 2024 U.23 Asian Championship was predicted to be very attractive. The two teams are in high form, possess many outstanding individuals and are both considered top candidates for the continental championship.

The situation on the field has partly proven the above assessments to be accurate. The match between U.23 Saudi Arabia and U.23 Uzbekistan had quite high professional quality and was very “hot” with many fierce disputes between players on both sides. Although the pace of the match was quite fast, the position created by the two teams was very tight.

Even in the 45 minutes of official play in the first half, U.23 Uzbekistan could not launch a single shot towards the opponent’s goal. At minute 45+2, the U.23 Uzbekistan player’s first shot toward the U.23 Saudi Arabia goal was also the opening goal. From a delicate pass from his teammate, Norchaev ran down and handled it very skillfully to get out of reach of the opponent’s goalkeeper, before shooting into an empty net to give U.23 Uzbekistan a 1-0 lead.

In the second half, the situation on the field still showed no signs of “cooling down”. In the 70th minute, Yahya Aiman ​​of Saudi Arabia U.23 was disqualified after receiving the second yellow card. Immediately afterwards, on the free kick from outside the penalty area, Fayzullayev had a half-pass, half-shot kick that almost doubled the lead. special for U.23 Uzbekistan, but unfortunately the ball hit the post.

With the advantage of playing better than others, U.23 Uzbekistan needed another 10 minutes to score another goal to double the gap. After his teammate’s shot was blocked by the opponent’s goalkeeper, Rakhmonaliev quickly ran up to score a header to increase the score to 2-0 in the 80th minute. This was also the final score of the match.

With this result, U.23 Saudi Arabia officially became the former king of the U.23 Asian tournament. Meanwhile, U.23 Uzbekistan won the right to play in the semi-finals and will face U.23 Indonesia (April 29).