The Iraq futsal team surprised everyone when they chose to play as the top attack. This tactic of Iraq caused the Thai futsal team to make a series of mistakes and conceded a goal in the 3rd minute.
After conceding an early goal, the Thai futsal team still faced a deadlock in deploying their playing style. On the other side of the front line, the Iraq futsal team played better and better.
Iraq played confidently and caused Thailand many difficulties. Thailand made a mistake when their goalkeeper lost the ball and let Iraq go into an empty net in the 16th minute of the first half.
However, few people thought that the Iraq futsal team would have a hard time playing after leading by 2 goals. Before the end of the first half, the Thai futsal team managed to score to reduce the gap to 1-2.
This goal also created psychological momentum for the Golden Temple team and they concretized this advantage by scoring a goal to equalize the score to 2-2 when the second half had only just started for 4 minutes.
In the remaining time, Iraq started to play power-play. However, the Thai futsal team still deployed a good defensive game and did not let the Iraq team score any more goals. The Iraq team even received a "bitter defeat" with the power-play strategy when losing the ball from midfield, creating conditions for the Thai players to easily score.
In the end, the Thai futsal team won with a score of 3-2. This victory helped the Golden Temple team enter the semi-finals of the 2024 Asian Futsal Championship. Not only that, the Thai futsal team also won the 3rd ticket to Asia to the 2024 Futsal World Cup finals, along with Tajikistan and Iran.
The remaining quarter-final match is between the Vietnam futsal team and Uzbekistan at 9:00 p.m. tonight (October3,). The winning team will qualify for the World Cup, while the losing team will participate in the play-off for the 5th ticket.
