Although the Asian Cup venue has not yet been settled, the Asian Cup qualifiers have begun! In the first round of the Asian Cup qualifiers group stage that ended last night, a super unpopularity was born - the former Asian Cup champion Kuwait team, who was tragically reversed by the bottom team Indonesia 1-2 and suffered a bad start. You know, Kuwait is a seed team in the group. Unexpectedly, they were super unpopular at the beginning. It is indeed amazing that Kuwait football’s regression over the years has been too obvious.
Kuwait football’s heyday was in the 1980s. They won the runner-up of the Asian Cup in 1976, and four years later they won the top of Asian football and won the championship! This is also the strongest period for Kuwait football. However, as the old group of core players retreated, Kuwait football has also fallen into a long period of decline. At present, Kuwait's FIFA ranking is 146th, more than 70 behind national football team ! It has to be said that this Kuwait team has now become a veritable bottom team.
However, no matter how bad the team is, it is really unreasonable to lose to the Indonesian team! In this game against India, Kuwait has a huge advantage in the field. In the first half of the game, they kept playing against Indonesia. In the 39th minute of the game, Kuwait scored the first goal. However, although the Indonesian team has a bottom line, they have added 2 naturalized players. In the 45th minute of the game, naturalized player Mark Kloak helped the Indonesian team equalize the score. In the 47th minute, another naturalized player, Ilianto, scored the second goal, helping the Indonesian team overtake the score 2-1.
In the subsequent games, although Kuwait strengthened its offensive, the Indonesian team's defense was very tenacious, and they maintained the score of 2-1 throughout the game.
Kuwait was in the same group with Indonesia, Jordan and Nepal in the group stage. With their first-round team loss, the situation of their promotion is no longer optimistic. You should know that there are powerful teams like Jordan in the same group. In the previous World Cup 40 stage, Kuwait made Jordan team suffer. When they meet in the group stage, they will inevitably stage a battle of revenge. For Kuwait, if they miss the final stage of this Asian Cup, it will undoubtedly be a huge blow.
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