U19 Thailand and U19 China missed out on tickets to the U20 World Cup

Losing in the remaining two quarter-finals of the U19 Asian Cup, U19 Thailand and U19 China missed the chance to qualify for the U20 World Cup in 2015.

China U19 (red shirt) helpless in heavy rain in Myanmar. Photo: Sina.

U19 Thailand and U19 China both faced disadvantages in the quarter-finals when they were attacked by their opponents and could not recover after falling behind very early.

Qatar U19 opened the scoring against China U19 in the fifth minute thanks to Al Saadi. By the end of the first half, the West Asian representative had doubled their advantage when Zhou Yuchen received a red card for a foul in the 16m50 area, while Ali Afif did not miss the opportunity to double the score to 2-0.

In the second half, U19 China scored a goal to reduce the score but almost immediately U19 Qatar restored the two-goal gap in the 58th minute. Near the end of the match, Madibo of U19 Qatar received a red card and U19 China rekindled hope with a penalty kick to equalize 2-3. But in the last minute, U19 Qatar set the score at 4-2 to qualify for the semi-finals.

In the remaining match, U19 Thailand was scored against Urinboev of U19 Uzbekistan twice in the first 20 minutes. The young Southeast Asian team managed to reduce the score to 1-2 in the second half but that was all they could do in the match. Not only did they not score an equalizer, U19 Thailand also received a red card and had to leave the game.

Qatar U19 and Uzbekistan U19 will join the two previous quarter-final winners Myanmar U19 and North Korea U19 in the semi-finals. These are also the four Asian representatives at the 2015 FIFA U20 World Cup in New Zealand.

In the semi-finals, U19 Uzbekistan will meet U19 North Korea and U19 Myanmar will face U19 Qatar.

According to VnExpress.net