The Asian qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 will witness decisive matches in the ninth and penultimate round of the competitions, which bring together 12 teams distributed in the first and second groups, and the champion and runner-up of each of the two groups qualifies, while the third of the two groups will meet and the winner between them will meet the fifth South American qualifiers to reserve a ticket. Supplement to qualify for the World Cup in Qatar.
In the second group competitions, Saudi Arabia will play the closest to qualifying with China, Australia and Japan will meet, and Oman will meet with Vietnam.
The conflict in the second group was limited to the two direct qualification tickets between Saudi Arabia, the leaders, and Japan and Australia, the second and third place, who meet in Australia to compete for one of the two direct qualification tickets.
The Saudi team is looking for a victory over China in Sharjah to ensure its qualification for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 and participation for the sixth time in its history in the global event, and it leads the group with 19 points, one point ahead of Japan and four points from Australia.
The Saudi team will face its Chinese counterpart tomorrow (Thursday) before it receives the Australian team in the last round next Tuesday, and will reserve the qualification ticket in the event of its victory over China, and may guarantee its qualification to the finals for the second time in a row before playing the match, in the event that the Japanese team wins over its host The Australian in the match, which begins regarding six hours before its match once morest China.
Saudi Arabia reached the world finals for the first time in the World Cup in the United States in 1994, when it achieved its best achievement by qualifying for the second round, before it competed in the next three editions in France 1998, Korea and Japan 2002 and Germany 2006, and was absent from the versions of South Africa 2010 and Brazil 2014 Then she succeeded in returning once more four years ago in Russia 2018, when she was also eliminated in the first round.
For his part, the Japanese team, which made a weak start by losing two matches in the first three rounds, and then returned strongly by achieving five consecutive victories, aspires to qualify for the seventh time in a row, and its victory over the Australian team will guarantee it by finishing between the first two places, while Australia’s victory brings it back. To compete for direct qualification.
Within the same group competitions, and in a marginal match far from competing for the qualifying positions, Vietnam plays bottom-ranked Oman with fourth (8 points), which lost its hopes of qualifying.