At 23:00 on February 6, Beijing time, in the first game of the Asian Cup semi-finals, Jordan faced South Korea. In the battle between West Asia and East Asia, who can advance to the final first? There is a lot to watch in the game, we will wait and see!
1. This is the eighth time in history that South Korea has entered the Asian Cup semi-finals. It has advanced to the semi-finals for the fifth time in the last seven editions. However, it encountered a curse: only 1988 and 2015 successfully entered the finals, but unfortunately they finished second. The first championship was in 1968.
2. This is only Jordan's first trip to the Asian Cup semi-finals. It has already made history. Naturally, it hopes to reach the finals for the first time and win the first championship in team history.
3. Jordan became the 16th different team in history to enter the Asian Cup semifinals. It was also the first time a new team appeared in the semifinals after Australia and Uzbekistan in 2011.
4. This is the third meeting between the two teams in the Asian Cup. The most recent time was in the group stage of this tournament, which ended in a 2-2 draw.
5. South Korea has met the same opponent twice in the same Asian Cup three times before and lost twice. They were in the finals in 1980 and 2015. They only won one game. In 2000, they defeated the Chinese men’s football team in the third place match. .
6. South Korea has fallen behind in 4 of the 5 games in this tournament, which is equal to the total of 23 games from 2007 to 2019. In the last 8 Asian Cup games where they fell behind first, they only won one, which was the quarter-finals plus Australia reversed 2-1.
7. It was the first time Jordan won three games in a single Asian Cup, and it was also the first time he scored 10 goals, one more than the total number of goals in the previous two Asian Cups.
8. Son Heung-min has scored 7 goals in the Asian Cup since his debut in 2011. Only two players have scored more goals than him during the same period. The most is 10 goals, and Son is still 3 goals short.
9. South Korea’s Kim Min-jae and Jordan’s Orwan and Salem are suspended.
