Our national futsal team lost its first opening match in the Asian Cup against Tajikistan by three goals against four for the second group, to complicate its mission in its career after its score remained devoid of points, while the Uzbekistan team topped the group after swept Turkmenistan with eight goals without return in the opening match.
The first half of the match ended in a 1-1 draw after a strong start on the part of the Tajik team, which advanced with the result through Zurkiev, after which our team returned to the match through the equalizing goal scored by Ammar Ali.
The Tajik team started the second half strongly, as it did in the first half, and succeeded in threatening the goal of Sayed Muhammad Hamid, in light of individual errors in the passing process, which he took advantage of well and translated to the goal of progressing again through Solif, and the Tajiks strengthened their progress with a third goal through Sharipov.
The delay in the result forced our team and its Brazilian coach Lino to request a time-out to avoid mistakes and change in the way he played and the way he played since the beginning of the match. Shots by Mohammed Abdullah and Jassam Saleh.
Ahmed Antar succeeded in reducing the difference after investing a defensive error for the opponent six minutes before the end of the match. In the last four minutes, Lino changed the way of playing in the offensive part by using Jassam Saleh as a goalkeeper to take advantage of it, and Muhammad Abdullah missed a valuable opportunity to equalize by hitting the post.
The fatal mistake came from our team and the opponent took advantage of it well and translated it for a fourth goal one minute ago. Our team responded with the goal of the third reduction by a Tajik defender by mistake, and the little time remaining was not enough to modify the result and the match ended with the loss of our team.