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so no more wait , the biggest Asian sport event will start today in UAE
for the first time the competition will have 24 teams so it's gonna be a fun football month

let's discuss matches here and post some bets for both match ups and outrights , I'm gonna post my outright bets later tonight

for today there is only one match : UAE vs Bahrain

I'm taking UAE to win today X1.65 ( Betcoin or Asianodds )

UAE has great talents and they are expected to achieve 9 points from their 3 games , they are playing home as well and overall they are better than Bahrain
Bahrain has poor performance comparing it with the other Arabic Gulf countries and personally I watched their last friendly games without getting any good impression

so with the given odds I'm kinda sure there is good value in taking UAE , and that's my only bet for today

The UAE even though not a favorite to win the title but by virtue of their superiority over Bahrain in football and they being the host of the tournament  i don't think anything can stop them tonight from winning and i am going to bet for them to win this game.

UAE is facing Bahrain for the second time in the Asia cup, UAE had won the earlier match so this could be a good opportunity for Baharain to avenge that loss. It's also pertinent to note that UAE who're the hosts are also regulars in this tournament hence that does give them a edge going ahead in this match. Also Bahrain Achilles heel is their sloppy defence, which I feel shall be exploited by UAE hence even I feel UAE shall win this game.

I was blind about the performance from both of teams but i have recently checking the odds for UAE and Bahrain through onehash.com and seems they were given high odds for UAE @3.27 and for Bahrain @2.45 and if OP says so then i think after seeing that odds i would like to pick UAE ML

Nah, Bahrain will try its best to get a draw since UAE has a good chance to be the first in its group.
Besides, politics may interfere here so...

This what will happens i assume. We will see anyway  ;)

Got the same odds for UAE, unfortunately, I played it as part of a 3-legged parlay that is also backing stupid Cardiff who are about to lose to League 1's Gillingham haha. So even if UAE win, I get nothing out of this. As it stands though, only scoreless at half time. Hosts are dominating but could only get 1 save out of Bahrain and have picked up 2 yellows too... no reason to panic though.

I'll share my bets too from tomorrow... found any good outrights for Tourney winners yet Sy?

unexpected start with the host drawing with Bahrain , this actually kinda showed me that all the participants teams have chance and big teams' edge isn't that high so there may be some good chances taking underdogs and double chance


picking the winner is really hard in Asian , any team can win as long as they have the spirit just like what Iraq did in 2007 while their country was at war
so for the winner I have picked Syria X48 betfair exchange , because I know my team and these odds are just way too high for Syria especially that other bookies aren't offering that high odds for Syria so I kinda picked great odds and I may trade it later

I made few other outright bets but not about the winners
I picked Syria to win group B at X6.20 sportsbet , cause again I believe bookies are way underestimating Syria and in world cup qualification bookies underestimated syria as well in almost all of their matches but Syria ended up drawing against Iran and having 2 draws against Australia to lose in extra time in Australia
so these bets are kinda hard to cash , but I'm more than sure that these odds for Syria are way too +EV

I also have other two bets : Syria Top West Asian Football Federation Team X15.00 sportsbet and Qatar Top West Asian Football Federation Team X14.00 sportsbet as well

this as well is one of the craziest odds I found , odds are way too high for both Syria and Qatar
West Asian teams are : Saudi Arabia , UAE , Iraq , Syria , Qatar , Jordan , Lebanon , Palestine , Oman and Yemen
what really matters from these is the first 5 teams since it's really unlikely the other teams will have any chance in the competition
again bookies are underestimating both Syria and Qatar with these odds , Qatar invested billions of dollars in football for their next world cup and they are preparing their team for the upcoming world cup
with such kind of odds it's crazy and it's a must bet for me   

UAE messes up my parlay yesterday too, I thought they had everything covered only for me to find out they have not only failed to score but conceded a goal from Bahrain (which they later equalized from the spot) but I thought this was going to be n easy win and so I went big on them but lost terribly.

It is very nice to see there is a thread to discuss about this ongoing AFC Asian Cup 2019, Thailand will play against India today in Group A. Frankly speaking, I do not know much details about the football players in the India national football team, but after I checked out some of the previous matches played by India, they seems to have a pretty decent performance and I do not think Thailand is a very dominance team in this tournament, I wonder why are the odds payout for Thailand to win the match in full time against India are so low @1.47 only? The defense of India looks pretty good with their past matches record, and I think a bet on under 2.5 goals might be a good option for this match.

In their group, India is in 2nd position based on ranking while Thailand is in 4th with a gap of 21. India is likely to win this match since in some of the last game they performed well. I am also wondering why it is such low.

I am actually expect UAE vs Bahrain march to be draw, since Bahrain is quite strong team right now, but UAE is the Host. Picking Syria is a smart choice, they strong but have good odd. But I more likely to pick UAE or Iraq for the winner.

For the match today, Jordan vs Australia is to obvious, no offense. Then Thailand vs India, I saw some post favoured India, but I might have an unpopular opinoin that Thailand will make a surprise, they have a strong squad this year.

Thailand have messed up one of the tournament they recently participated in which was the AFF Suzuki Cup, Thailand was eliminated by Malaysia in that tournament, and the AFF Suzuki Cup tournament only consist of teams from Southeast Asia, so Thailand are obviously the clear favorite team to win the AFF Suzuki Cup and yet they messed it up. I think India would prove to be a much more tougher opponent for Thailand to handle, so I guess we might see Thailand struggling to score goals against India today.

Thanks for the awesome commentary, Sy! I have to admit here first off that I may have some knowledge in Southeast Asian teams but when it comes to the larger AFC format, then I'm a little bit lost. I'm always backing good teams with bad bookie odds, like you said Syria and Qatar are often given bad ones - and even in the EUFA Nations League you would see Kazakhstan or Georgia with bad odds but they're both really strong teams and for me geographically some of them should be in AFC but anyway that's politics.

Syria have won me a lot of games in the past too - they have really high spirits and camaraderie, even though so many footballers lost their lives in the war, and that strength should see them go far, especially if teams like UAE continue to underestimate their opponents.

Qatar is the strongest on paper though... and because so many friendlies are played behind closed doors, impossible to judge the standards they've set but I suspect even at the coming World Cup the Qataris will be a force to be reckoned with.

P.S. Thanks for the odds you shared... I don't have accounts there so will have to keep hunting.

today is my favorite day since Group B will play , as much as I like to bet today but I will just avoid betting for today
I will focus on Jordan vs Austrlia and Syria vs Palestine

on papers both Australia and Syria should have easy wins , but believe me it's not that easy
last 4 matches between Australia ended 2 wins for Jordan in Jordan and 2 wins for Australia in Australia , so the recent matches show that Australia really suffers against Jordan
Australia has a lot of injuries , but they really surprised me last friendly against Oman where they were able to win 5-0 !!
if they didn't manage to win that big I would confidently go for Jordan +1.5 but it seems that Australia still playing good football even with the injuries they have
as I stated I won't bet it , but I'm not expecting an easy game for Australia

for Syria vs Palestine , historically and looking at recent performance Syria is a clear favor to win but again I won't bet this match
today will be the first official game (not friendly ) for Syria with the new manager , during the last year after the new manager started coaching Syria he played a lot of friendlies but I liked the performance in only 2 or 3
the coach tried a lot of plans and a lot of players , so till now I'm not 100% sure how he will play

there is no doubt that Syrian players are better but it's the game plan that I'm worried about cause as I stated this the first official match

so I will just watch the games today and see how teams will perform and maybe next round I will start having clear bets and reads regarding this group
this is the most exciting group in the whole competition IMO

Yup, I saw this match and Thailand dominated the match but India was lucky to get a penalty ( 1-1 HT )
In the second half I was sure that Thailand would again dominate the game and win this match at least with a score of 2-1 / 3-1

Australia was beaten by Jordan, well a little bit unexpected for me...
Thailand vs India, frankly I have no clue, however, I think Thailand has more chances than India.
The next game I expect Syria would win vs Palestine but as said before, in AFC, it is very hard to expect who could win!

after Jordan win against Australia the calculation should be complex for group B
I was not going to bet today but odds for Syria has moved from X1.65 to X2.05 , I see value with this odds so I will take the bet
Syria should win now against Palestine since the other two matches they will be facing Australia and Jordan who was able to gain precious 3 points from Australia

so winning this match is a must !!

Actually, first 3 matches of the tournament have all brought in unexpected results.

1. UAE held to a draw even as huge favourites.
2. Jordan beating Australia at over 10/1 odds.
3. India currently leading 3-1 with 20 mins to play... and I actually backed Thailand to win with a -1.5 handicap haha!

So yeah, looks like we might have a good value betting against bookies, but you could be really unlucky and only see the upsets early in tourney. Terrible outing for me so far!

@Sy: I also took the Syria win @2.05 (https://fairlay.com/market/syria-vs-palestine/?referral=2130e697-c138-436a-a753-de8ca2436301) as a single match now, thanks to the results so far... after commissions, just 1.99 though.

can't be 1.99 after commisions in Fairlay cause the max that fairlay can charge for this event is 0.25% on winnings which means your odds should be X2.047
are you sure about that ?? anyways most of the times fairlay has the same odds that bitcoinrush has so it's better to use them only in case they offer another market or they have an order with higher odds ( occasionally )

Hmm you're absolutely right, I don't know why that didn't immediately jump out at me. Too late to check it actually, but I was almost 100% sure I saw 1.997 winnings when I chose to match the offer. In general I only take Fairlay on underdog bets (they always have at least a whole point more than even BCR).

Bloody opening games as it turned out though. Palestine played really desperately, got a CB sent off and generally just kept the game to a scrappy one, but Syria normally thrives in that too. They should have still won this game, but as it stands, Jordan top the table with 3 points... and meet Syria next.

Syria may just end up winning the table too if they can win that game, and then hold Australia at minimum (though don't see why they can't beat the Socceroos). Every game is winnable the way it looks.

India have managed to beat Thailand extremely easily by scoring 4 goals against Thailand yesterday, I guess the bookmakers have overestimated the players quality in Thailand, the odds payout for Thailand to win the match in full time was horribly low, and India was not even a weak team in the first place, I am so glad I avoided placing my bets on Thailand to win the match in full time due to the low odds payout.

kinda disappointed after the match , I knew I shouldn't bet Syria at X1.65 but when odds jumped to X2.05 I knew that it's a great bet to make
Syria dominated the match in everything but failed to reach the net , Palestine had no threat at and the Syrian goalkeeper didn't have any single thread ( the camera I guess showed him like 4 times )

the Syrian coach did extremly bad calls though

I would say in the last 4 matches this match was the less surprising , Syrian team did everything but failed to score

Yeah, that match was horrible for Thailand, and for me, I think I also overestimated Thailand players, I never think India is weak, but I just think that Thailand would make a surprise.

And by the way, the result that Australia lost is really unexpected. This will make chaos in Group B though. I have not seen anyone talk about match today,

- China vs Kyrgyzstan, China obviously has the better squad, but Kyrgyzstan have a good result in the recent matches, and China, on the other hand, is in their worst performance. I might go on the risky bet to put some money on Kyrgyzstan.

- Philippines vs South Korea is not really my favourite match, South Korea odd is so bad, and betting on Philippines are way too risky.

I was pretty sure about India but Australia lost to Jordan was unexpected and even I thought of 2-0, 2-1 win for Australia. Anyway, after all it's soccer.
China has a good achievement in AFC while Kyrgyzstan is new here. Anyway, putting bet on Kyrgyzstan will not be good idea, IMO.
Philippines will be a worst choice if someone want to bet on it. South Korea will take place here.

Turns out Thailand fired their coach hours after the defeat to India. Basically they were saying he played them defensively, when they were built for speed and agility. Makes sense since they really shouldn't have lost so badly. All these details would have been nice to know before making the bet, but impossible to learn as limited coverage in English.

Today has gone as expected though, except perhaps for the slim scorelines, with South Korea overcoming Philippines and China taking 3 points from the Kyrgystan game.

Iran should win the day's final match. But no bets for me today, no good odds.

India is quite a better than Thailand and it was expected to be happened.
China and Korea's win is also as expected and that's what happened.
Today, Saudi and N. Korea match is quite unpredictable. Saudi is likely to win the match but N Korea also have the chance of scoring. Expecting a drawn or Saudi to win though.

Iraq will be playing their first match against Vietnam today in Group D, even though Vietnam have just won the AFF Suzuki Cup recently, but I think Vietnam will still struggle against Iraq today, I checked on Iraq past home matches result and they seems to have a decent performance whenever they are playing at their home stadium, so I guess Iraq should be able to claim 3 points from Vietnam today.

Iraq vs Vietnam

Iraq has great history performance in AC and they are used to it , their team overall is better than Vietnam and they have the motivation as well
I'm expecting a win for then and taking Iraq -0.75 X1.82 (sportsbet ) , so in general people predicting a win for Iraq but I'm hoping for 2 goals win but anyways 1 goal win will be half win for the betslip

Iraq win to NIL X2.38 is looking nice as well IMO , but in general I would love to see how they play their first game first cause as we saw there were many surprises for other big teams

The probability of winning for Iraq is high but you know Vietnam is also playing well if you have a look at the last matches of Vietnam. The head to head was in 2017 where Iraq won 2-1. So, Iraq will win, maybe but it's unpredictable for sure.

Heart said Vietnam, but ended up just using Saudi to play one leg of a weird parlay I got going on... so far Vietnam leading 2-1 but only thanks to an own goal, I think Iraq are good enough to at least draw, even though the Southeast Asians are still the ones currently with more shots on goal. 35 mins a lot left to happen though.

Edit they just levelled 2-2. 30 mins left, they've got to win this.

BTW anyone got good streams for AFC? My Kodi lines severely outdated

check out this site fromhot.com
not the best quality but kinda good , delay for today is around 40 seconds but sometimes it less or more since it offer various links and streams
also sportzone app for mobile is good and they have AFC matches as well

I watch on Fox sport TV  :)

Today my favorite team Japan will play VS Turkmenistan it doesn't seem difficult for Japan to win the match
I'm sure of winning at least 2 goals or more

Japan has always been a formidable team in Asian football, and they will play against Turkmenistan today with home ground advantage, even though the odds payout for Japan to win the match in full time is extremely low @1.10 only, but I believe it would be extremely hard for Turkmenistan to keep a clean sheet against Japan today, so I will still place a bet on Japan to win the match in full time despite the low odds payout.

Japan has shown extraordinary performance in World Cup. I am expecting a big win against Turkmenistan. A 4-0 or 4-1 is expected. Turkmenistan will barely score today.

Japan's too classy for Uzbekistan, so my bet is on Japan to win with a handicap of -1.5 at half time (Fairlay @2.5) as they'll want to put the game to bed with an early blitz. They probably won't have to play as negatively as in the World Cup too in this tournament as physical disadvantage is cut down in AFC.

I've got a parlay on the other two games (Qatar and Oman to win) at @3.68.

For your information, Japan is not playing against Uzbekistan today even though both of these teams are being placed together in group F, Japan is playing against Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan will be playing against Oman today, you might need to check on your bets to see if there is any mistakes on it.

I am totally joining your ship guys, I don't think there is any possibility that Japan will lose, but 4-0 is a pretty high score, so that might be an over expectation. On the other matches, On a paper and statistic Qatar will get an easy win vs Lebanon, and I think that's what will happen.  I am not really sure about Oman vs Uzbekistan, I don't really know anything about those either team.

United Arab Emirates is the host country for AFC Cup  
How can Iraq and Japan have home field advantage?  :P

Thank you very much for the correction, the low odds payout on favorite teams to win certain match set by bookmakers have confused me as I am having the impression that the group stage of this tournament will be played at every team respective home countries first. I guess I must analyze my betting strategy for this tournament again as favorite teams might stand a higher chance to suffer a shock defeat to underdogs as the matches are being played at neutral venues.

for today I will be only betting on Qatar to win against Lebanon X1.80
I have watched several matches for both teams and Qatar is way better than Lebanon . I have mentioned it before is that Qatar invested tons of money to prerapre their national team for the upcoming world cup that will be hosted in Qatar so the team is well prepared

only thing I'm afraid of is the atmosphere there , I guess not all of you know that the host (UAE ) and Qatar have political problems so I'm not sure if the Qatari players like their stay there
so don't expect to see Qatari supporters in the stadium

My bad. I made the right bets, but typed the wrong names. So yeah, Japan didn't do 2-0 at HT, in fact were down a goal. Frustrating outing for me in AFC so far... and Oman also trailing a goal with second half just started... damn the Uzbeks, but they're playing quite well.

@Sy: FromHOT is working so-so for me, but better option than I had before. Thanks!

I am watching the match between Uzbekistan and Oman. Uzbekistan is ahead with the only goal scored in the first half. Oman should have equalize. They are better team then Uzbeks I guess.

By the way just placed a bet for over 1.5 goals LOL

Oman was better than Uzbekistan but et the end of the day, it's the score which is evaluated. Qatar was able to score at 70+ minutes while later Uzbekistan scored another. It was a terrible match in fact. Sad that Oman has lost points here.

Bahrain vs Thailand TIP 1 odd 2.40
 Thailand is led by crazy and at least questionable coach, defense is shitty (four goals from young Indian team). Bahrain with some good results, scored 15 goals in five matches. They looked strong vs UAE but then umpires helped their opponent.

Thailand played so bad in last match against India. On the other hand, as you said Bahrain has played well in the last match too. So, this should be an easy win for Bahrain in case nothing unexpected happens. I assume it will be 2-0 or 3-1 score.

Except that that crazy and questionable coach has been fired (hours after the India loss!). Interim coach Sirisak Yodyardthai says he'll make Thais happy... so this means attack. He said he only wants 1 point from each of the last 2 group games, but I think that's mind games.Thais are fast, agile, and very attack minded. They have all the assets for that and they played a negative defensive formation, so of course they lost.

They'll be stinging from embarassment and will probably attack Bahrain, who'll be shell-shocked. Then, there's also that refugee footballer issue... hope Thailand doesn't return him to Bahrain (as would be illegal under international law). Football wise though, I'm predicting an upset.

my main focus today is Jordan vs Syria , but to be honest I'm still confused and the odds aren't satisfying me so far
we all saw last game for Syria how odds went up from X1.65 to over 2 , and at that time I decided to make the bet cause the game looked better than a coin flip for me
Syria was able to have the ball but Palestine played strong defending match and the Syrian strikers weren't able to reach the goal

at the moment there is huge pressure on Syria cause they were supposed to win the previous match since it's easier on papers , I'm not sure if this kind of pressure is good or bad for the players cause through the world cup qualification Syria played amazingly great while they were facing pressure
these matches where against Iran and Australia and all of them ended draw with Syria being so close to get the win

the Syria coach though did horrible plan in the previous match and now everyone here isn't satisfied with his decisions , some people are demanding to fire him as well so today will be a real test for him cause the Syrian players are way better than Jordan players but they need a good tactic and plan to beat Jordan

I will keep watching the odds and the news and if I decided to bet I will put a reply here , but I'm telling you in advance this game is really hard to predict and I may put an emotion bet so following me isn't truly recommended  :D

What's happening in Thailand. It's a bit fishy now, lol. Couple of days ago, there was a women from Saudi and now Boy from Bahrain. As per media, he has the permission from Australian govt and he said he had no issue in Bahrain. Who knows?
No team can able to score till now. It's half time. Hope Bahrain will make it an easy win as I earlier mentioned.

the Syrian team forma is up now and the coach decided to start with all the attacking players having Omar Alsoma , Omar Khribin and Mardik Mardikian
the Syrian team will start attacking early and they will put tons of pressure on Jordan , if things go as planned Syria should have an early lead or at least they will make Jordanian players really tired and benefit from that later on the match

Syria to win X2.62 ( sportsbet after boost ) or at X2.47 ( without boost ) is looking really solid IMO

Great game! Finally won an upset that makes up for past losses haha. Thai Captain rolled back the years amd delivered so well for the Elephants. He dribbled so well in last minute and even should have made it 2-0 but credit to defence also... 18 fouls and 4 yellows, they made it a physical game for the Bahraini, and as I expected, they were totally shocked by the Thai approach, who saved the best plays and dribbles for the dying minutes.

@Sy I also bet on Syria, over 2/1 but I parlayed with an expected UAE win to bring odds to just over 3.1. Syria are just too good to not win at least 1 game, but I feel in my bones they can also beat Australia. Follow your heart!

Thailand made a good comeback after losing with India and they have a chance to play for the next round now although winning against UAE will be too tough. Still, they can make it.

Well, football is a hard to predict game because the team ones less expected will make a good performance during the match which the reason why the team ones less expected beat top team. With the way I saw the match played by the Thailand they will definitely win the match against UAE.

It was a surprised that the Philippines held up good against South Korea in the AFC only losing to one goal. Everybody thought that it will be a massacre in the field as they have thought that if they have defeated Germany in the World Cup it will be a walk in the park for this Asian team. Happy to see that the Philippines has been improving with their new manager Sven Eriksson. His primary focus now is recruiting Filipino blooded pro football players which he had been successful so far as well as developing a youth football academy which he hopefully wants to develop homegrown talent.

Friday games seems a little bit predictable : China and South Korea gonna win in my opinion easily however Palestine vs Australia is tricky one. I think Australia has a chance to get out of the last rank, we will see.

That's make no sense when you compare the match with Germany here. Germany was forced to attack and have a win and despite that they had lost. I'm not denying that S Korea didn't play well. They played well. If it was a International friendly, Germany either won or the match be drawn since you know Germany was in huge pressure.

Australia will be playing against Palestine today and this is a very important match for Australia as they will most likely be out of this tournament if they lose the match against Palestine today. Even though Australia did messed up their first game against Jordan, but I think Australia are still a strong team and since they are facing pressure of elimination from this tournament, I believe they will surely be playing more aggressively against Palestine today, I guess I would place a small bet on Australia to win the match in full time today.

Yes, Australia are facing pressure right now due to their last performance which seems to hot their fans and also lead them to probation of been elimination out of the tournament but I also think their match against Palestine is an easy to predict win game and they wont want Palestine to add to their disappointment performance.

Yeah as expected by many, Australia won 3-0 against Palestine. Australia needs at least a draw against Syria to qualify.

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China is still leading 2-0, less than half an hour to pass :)

Korea will play today and Korea is one of the favorite teams to win this tournament
Kyrgyzstan is not a strong team so I think 0-2 for Korea's victory
Betting options Korean HT / FT or Korea  -1.5

We only have one team in that sport and is supported by all of my people. Im glad you posted this thread and i will just look for an update here rather to watch TV. The truth is, i dont have enough time to watch a game because of a strict time management. Its so hard to work, crypto and having business at the same time.

Hey it's true in the first match Australia did not play well, I was surprised by their underpar performance but you got your analysis spot on. I wasn't sure if Australia would win this game, but they played well and won the game 3 - 0. A loss would have send them back packing home, but they really played some convincing football to win. It's also a blessing for Australia as now they won't have to face Japan in round of 16.

Better for them to play well or else they will get airplane tickets to KangarooLand  :P

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As expected too, South Korea won the game vs Kirghizistan. Today wasn't hard to know who had best odds after all.
For tomorrow, I think Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia could win easily.

What? Are they really a part of the Asian Cup lol? They are technically so not a part of Asia lol

Yet you prefer shit-posting on the forum for a few pennies? That must be time-consuming really haha

I think UAE is going to win the Cup. Their corrupt governments are going to pay huge money to make sure their team wins. #Not My WorldCup

Yeah a "continent" playing in another one Cup. In fact, this thing satisfied the oceanians boys since +2006 ;)

If they lack some moneh then MBS gonna buy it for them and put the cup inside the UAE's Louvre  :D

I am looking forward to this tournament as I have always been a fan of football. If you are also willing to follow the game and do not have time because of other busy tasks, try to get the scores on internet, though it is not entertaining to see only scores as watching the match itself.

Don't know about you guys, but the way this competition's going, today's sure to have at least 1 upset. A draw will still be considered a minor upset by any of the 3 matches but I took a small bet on all 3 underdogs... If Iran or Iraq lose, I get 13/1. If Saudi lose, I get 6/1. Let's see how it goes!


Crypto and having business at the same time is hard work? You know who really watches and plays football? Working class people, that's so. No offence, but if we're all posting on this forum, we're not living a tough life with no time to watch football =p

for today I'm betting only one game , will be taking Japan to score O1.5 goals X1.71 sportsbet after boost and Japan -1.5 X2.33 sportsbet after boost

Japan is one of the few top rated Asian teams , they play great football and their performance in last WC and in the qualification was great
Oman didn't satisfy me in any of their last matches , they tend to play poor football and they tend to receive a lot of goals

so I'm expecting this game to be very similar to the last 3 games yesterday where the favors dominated the game and won with 2-3 goals difference

Yeah, I lost all my single bets yesterday, for once, all the favourites reigned supreme, scoring 2 goals or more with none conceded. Small bets, so it's okay, and I'm choosing both Qatar and Japan (in fact, my 2 picks for outright winners, South Korea is actually really strong but I suspect they'll fall before the finals. They're only 1.35 so I've put them both as 2 legs of my other football parlays today.

Oman and DPRK can't score, so the best they can try for is a draw, but their defence aren't great either.

I never expected North Korea to be such a weak team now as North Korea had managed to qualify for the world cup in year 2010 held in South Africa before, Qatar thrashed North Korea with a total of 6 goals today and the final result of 6-0 is such a humiliating scoreline for North Korea.

so disappointing performance from Japan today , referee was nice to them but they had tons of opportunities to score that they wasted
I guess nobody predicted the game to end with just one goal


I was expecting Qatar to win but yeah the score is really big , NK played really bad
hope this score gives Qatari players more confidence for the upcoming stages cause I have them in outright to finish as the best West Asian team
in general Qatar is really looking good , and I said it here before their government invested billions of dollars on football as preparation for the next world cup so I'm really expecting them to reach advanced levels

Barely qualification ended in all groups except A and B where the next game will show who will succeed.

I hope king Kim isn't watching the game or else the whole team will be nuked.

I’ll second that North Korea poor game play stunned me too, look at the number of fowls they committed, they simply had no momentum going for themselves. If you look at Qatar they hit total 13 shots on target, and managed to convert 6 of them, and almost made double the passes that North Korea could make which says it all about Korea performance. I believe we have an interesting match today where India needs a win to create history for themselves, and with a leaky Baharain defence against them I would favour team India to win.

The odds payout for the match between India and Bahrain set by bookmakers is really confusing me, as India have managed to beat Thailand with an amazing scoreline of 4-1, and Thailand won their last match against Bahrain with the final score of 1-0 in this tournament, but the bookmakers are favoring Bahrain to beat India today as the odds payout for India to win the match in full time is @3.95, I guess I will just skip betting on this match today as it might be a trap to lure gamblers to place their bets on India to win the match with the high attractive odds payout.

I think that 4-1 score was still a huge anomaly. India isn't a good footballing team, cricket is still their thing, and that was a Thai team instructed to defend, when all they've been training to do is attack and press and harry. They showed they can win properly, as demonstrated by the 1-0 upset against Bahrain.

Still, you could be right, this group is strange and we could still see upsets from Thailand against UAE (but I am thinking the gulf state will win)... but I don't see how India can even hold Bahrain... they couldn't beat Thailand but they overpower India in every aspect... attack, defence, physicality.

India deserves better than to have crashed out after the group stages. I particularly enjoyed their first game and it was a spirited performance from the young lads and looking at this group I think they should have qualified along side UAE.

@Sy what do you think? If Syria can win, and Palestine either draw or lose, they're still through to next stage. If Palestine get a surprise win though, then even a win won't be enough.

Bottom line, they need to win against the strongest team in the group, to at least finish 3rd and still have a chance to qualify. Jordan did it, though, so worth a bet? I think so @7.3 ;)

Good luck Syria! Jordan deserves to top the group in any case, for their big wins.

Syria is guaranteed to qualify if they win , even if Palestine and Syria took 3rd place they are both guaranteed to qualify at least as best 3rd in groups since there are plenty of other teams in other groups that have 0 points

to be honest looking at how Syria played in their last games things aren't looking good
but since Syria dumped Bernd Stange and now Fajr Ibrahim is the new manager players may play differently

Bernd Stange is the reason that Syria wasted last games points , his plans were really bad and he couldn't figure out a single good plan to play with

I'm taking Syria to win as a yolo bet at X7.00 , if players fought the same way they did in WC qualification Australia will truly suffer
Syria was so close to beat Australia in WC qualification and Australia at that time had way better team than they have now

RIP the Syrian Dream  :'(

players played really great , they needed some little luck and better defense
the spirit today was great , it just confirms for me how bad Bernd Stange was for the team especially that he had the biggest salary for a coach in Syrian history
local Syrian coaches don't even get 2% of what Stange got , so money invested on that coach was totally wasted

anyway still plenty of matches to watch , lost my outrights for Syria but I still have Qatar to be best west asian team that can recover all if the Qataris kept their performance at the same level

It was really a bad luck for syria, they have lost in the last minutes. They played well. Got score after Australia scored. It was really unbelievable for me that Tom Rogic scored in the last minutes. Because of my busy, I was not able to watch the last couple of minites. I thought it will be a drawn.

Watching scores here on this thread is not much entertaining as watching the match Live or on television.  Unless you have really busy schedule and cannot watch the match, then getting the scores online will only be for the information purpose .

I know... Sorry about that brother. In some ways, the players redeemed themselves threatening to at least get 1 point from the strongest team in the group, but it wasn't to be.

You're right, it was the wrong manager, and if they had just switched to a local guy just like the Thais did after the first game, who knows? Always strange for me even in my country, we send homegrown coaches and ex players fpr training and licences but in the end we get some foreign guy who to me always falls short anyway. Sometimes we just got to trust our men, the Thais did for a long time and got results.

Anyway, I don't have outrights but still like you betting on Qatar and for me Japan seem to have helped so far. Let's see.

thanks buddy
I still prefer a foreign coach , but a truly good coach not just a random German guy
Bernd Stange had zero achievements and most of the teams he coached fired him , the ones who brought him to Syria shouldn't be tolerated and should be fired

for today i have two bets that I made few days ago but didn't share here cause I tend to write my plays on the day of the match

I'm taking Iran to win X1.88 Bitgame odds ( unibet ) : this is the classico , Iran vs Iraq matches have always been amazing
both teams are great but the Iranian players are a little bit better and they are experienced as well , the game should be really fun and I'm not expecting an easy match but I'm going for Iran

I also have Korea to score over 1.5 goals X2.03 Sportsbet ( after boost ) : Korea is playing great football and they are the favor in all the bookies that I know to win the whole Asian cup
they have perfect team in all the lines , somehow their last 2 games they failed to score more than one goal
but I see the odds really nice for it and I guess bookies are over reacting for the fact that Korea failed to score more than one goal in the last games

I didn't make single bets on yesterday's games, again using South Korea and Vietnam to pad up other parlays (they won, but stupid results in other countries meant I lost anyway).

You got your over 1.5 goals, they're definitely the favourites, but now that darkhorse Syria is out, I still harbour some small hopes for SEA through Vietnam or Thailand, but my personal pick is Qatar like you, and maybe Japan to at least reach the final. So today, I'm betting on Japan and Qatar, big games both!

Iran-Iraq turned out to be a scoreless, but at least both sides had shots, yellow cards meant a lot of spirit too!

Both Japan and Uzbekistan have already won all their previous matches played in Group F and today we will see both of these teams playing against each other. Even though Japan are a well known team for their offensive play style but I think the defense of Uzbekistan is pretty good too, I guess we might see this match ending up with a draw at the final whistle today.

I do not think Uzbekistan can make it draw. It may be hard to get a win for Japan but they will definitely do it. Japan has well played good enough in world cup 2018. Besides, their ranking is 50, on the other hand, Uzbekistan is sitting at 95. Since their defence is good, they may defend well but at the end, Japan will take the lead. By the way, in football, ranking affects barely.

It is a hard game anyway and it's difficult to predict. Same thing for Saudi Arabia and Qatar which the game will take more than a sport dimension, it is basically a political war inside the football stadium. Better for Saudis to win or else they will have a bad treat from MBS and his pals.

But still no one scores a goal and it looks like it will be a draw like as Barcode_ said. I do not think Japan can score today because Uzbekistan has a good defense and they will save. Let's see what happen.

Qatar has proved again to be one of the best teams in this competition beating Saudi Arabia one of the top nominated teams to win the Asian Cup
this game in particular I was expecting Saudi Arabia to win or game to end as a draw , cause you all know the political problem between these two countries and the stadium was full of Saudi fans so thought this may be a problem for Qatar
but if Qatar can beat Saudi with the current circumstances I guess this means that Qatar can handle big teams in the future

I wished tho that Qatar will face Japan instead of Iraq in the next stage , cause for me I really find Japan overrated this year and small teams like Qatar and Iraq are doing better job

Yeah, good day for me as my three-legged AFC parlay worked out. Japan won, Lebanon won, pretty comfortably in the end, and Qatar took it so I collected almost 7/1. Saudis had the lion's share of possession, created a lot more chances, and like you said, had the vocal support - but in the end the Qatari's quality made the difference. Definitely stamped their mark, and teams may be wondering about them in 3 years' time too... when they play at World Cup stage. Still an unknown factor.

Japan totally overrated agree, yet I still think they will go far. Thing about experience, and when they do play well, they are quite incredible as a team. The smaller teams still rely on several stars IMO.

At the end, Japan made it. They won by 2-1 although Uzbekistan scored first. I thought Japan will not be able to score when they were behind by 1-0 but they almost scored in at the same time. Anyway, it was a nice comeback and win for Japan.

Qatar will be hosting the FIFA World Cup in year 2022 and I think the Qatar national football team has improved a lot, I never expected Qatar to be able to beat Saudi Arabia by 2 goals in their match yesterday, even though Qatar wasted a very good chance to score from the penalty awarded to them but they are still able to beat Saudi Arabia with the scoreline of 2-0 at the final whistle, I will be looking forward to see Qatar playing in the FIFA World Cup at the year of 2022.

Indeed, that was a dream few years ago to beat one of the used to be best Asian teams!
Yes it can form a nice team but will it pass to the next round in 2022? We will see.

Jordan - Thailand - Iran next sunday?

Host country always have the benefit, I mean they have a chance to play better. If you have see at Russia, they played well more than they should be. Eventually, they were able to make a drawn with Croatia too buy bad luck is they lost in tie-breaker. Qatar will also play better in World Cup 2022. They have changed a lot and hope they will be a better team in world cup.

It was only a personal feeling last year when I thought the Qatar team could surprise everyone. But now it's coming out who their players are and how good they are - the friendlies were all behind closed doors so only AFC is now showcasing them - people and bookies will slowly come to terms.

Russia's a different story for me - yes, home advantage and extra support, but they were one of the oldest teams in terms of average age, with plenty of years working together in international games. I played football as a below average guy, with average teammates, but there were days we'd beat better teams simply because we played together over 10 years, while newer, younger teams couldn't reach each others' minds yet so easily. Of course, eventually, we always get found out, but we got some joy over the years... same as Russia did until Croatia's quality outshone them.

Today's offering of 3 games are quite, quite good for entertainment value. I think we have to respect Jordan's achievements and go with the bookies for them to beat Vietnam, who aren't a weak team. My upset prediction is Thailand, who face a good but ageing China team. Youth to overcome experience, particularly because the Thais weren't expected to get here after their opening 4-1 loss to India.

Iran should get an easy victory, so I parlayed Iran with Thailand for around 6.87.

I truly never expected to see Vietnam eliminating Jordan from the Asian Cup tournament, Jordan is not a weak team in Asia and it was quite a disappointment to see them crash out of this tournament after the penalties shootout against Vietnam, but I do not think Vietnam would be able to win against their next opponent which will be either Japan or Saudi Arabia.

I actually kinda expected that , I knew that odds were really low for Jordan and bookies were overrating them but didn't know what I should bet since I haven't focused on Vietnam matches except their last match

Jordan won against Australia by scoring a corner kick , they had only one real chance beside that corner and Australia was playing really poor
Syria was the worst team in the competition IMO ( even I'm Syrian ) , the Syrian team didn't even match 10% of what people expected

so to be honest Jordan didn't even play good football , even in the matches they won their ball possession didn't even reach 40%

anyways I didn't know what to bet in Thailand vs China so I skipped , I will probably go for Iran -1.5 X2.15 cause it should be an easy win for Iran and they should win by at least 2 goals
Iran is much better and they are well experienced in advance stages , so today shouldn't be hard at all

Jordan eliminated by penalty kicks!
Thailand eliminated against China! 1-2...
Iran and Oman are playing right now (0-0/25').
Bad days for bets, especially if Iran loses!

Iran got the 2-goal difference you needed, Sy, so well done. I thought I had my parlay won, but China eventually edged out the Thais. TBased on the first half alone (I couldn't watch 2nd half), the Thais were well worth the surprise, had they won. Less possession, more verve, several shots but their midfield were just too profligate, guess that's the price of youth. Still, they bow out with no shame, having started with that horrific loss.

I still think Japan will get far, but you know, Saudi aren't a weak team and could physically be a match today, so I'm backing them, and parlaying for what I feel is a sure win for UAE for parlay odds 7.25.

I think Japan will win here. In the group stage, they were the champion and really played well too. Against Uzbekistan, even after going behind a goal, they came back and won. So, I think Japan will but since Saudi Arab is also a good team, it will not be so easy.

Even though Saudi Arabia aren't a weak team, I'm not expecting them to cause Japan any trouble in today's match and Japan winning every match in the group stages will give them much confidence to go about this match, My prediction would be Japan to win by 2 goals to nil.

for today I really like all the underdogs , the odds for them to qualify is really good
I missed betting on Saudi Arabia to qualify , I see odds was X3.20 but they are losing at the moment
thing is that all teams are kinda equal , personally I give the favors max win of 60% to qualify so odds for underdogs looking good IMO

not sure about Australia match tho , cause it will either be a close match or Australia will dominate it depending on the players since Australia isn't having a steady performance
I will take Australia to score O1.5 goals since when they play good they tend to score 2-3 goals and odds for that is X2.01

I also like Kyrgyzstan to qualify X5.40 in sportsbet
reason for this bet is that I find UAE really overrated since they are the host , but they failed to convince me and I really find them an average team
I also like them +1 at X2.2 , cause even if UAE won I can't see them winning by more than one goal

Ouf, yeah I already lost my parlay, again the favourites won. Saudis totally dominated possession, but their finishing was so, so poor... I counted maybe 10 shots and only 1 forced a save? They were 5.2 to win actually, so yeah, bookies were probably wrong, but Japan proved them right.

Tempted to back the Uzbeks but odds too low for me haha. Good luck for Aussie game, I think they'll wrap up the game by HT.

yeah mate  we just need to not be results oriented , yeah Japan won but their price for winning and qualifying was really low comparing it to how they played
Saudi was dominating the game but failing to score , I would say both teams played poor football but the price for Japan wasn't good at all IMO

same thing with the other two underdogs , they may lose but their price is really worth taking comparing it with the past performance for the favor teams

Better to not backing them since Australia won by penalty kicks! Japan eliminated Saudis and UAE just scored 2-1 right now vs Kyrgyzstan, they have more possession for the moment.

UAE had to need an extra time to win by 3-2 and will now have to face Australia in the quarter finals, with Australia also need penalties to win against Uzbekistan the match up seem pretty unpredictable.

South Korea have low odds against Bahrain and i have to find another options instead of South Korea ML but i was still confused to decide whether over 2.5 goals or under 2.5 goals for my pick

Yeah, as Sy pointed out yesterday, the underdog odds are actually the best in this competition. I still think RoK will edge it, if not blast Bahrain to bits, so I'm picking them PLUS Qatar, who's still my current fav to win the tourney. Iraq held Iran last time around, but Qatar's got more firepower. Still poor returns, so I did a sucker bet by adding even a third leg to my parlay in a completely diff tourney (EFL). Let's see how it all turns out!

for today I'm taking the favor , South Korea is way too good for Bahrain
yesterday things were different , all the under dogs were playing good football and I guess we saw that while the favors were all overrated and we saw how two games went to extra time where the underdogs had like 50% chance to qualify

but for today Bahrain isn't really impressing and their team isn't good comparing it with yesterday's underdogs
South Korea has perfect team and they are well experienced  so I'm actually going for South Korea -1.5 , I took it yesterday when odds were X2.04
now I see odds went down to X1.84 , but I guess there is still value

a win with less than goal isn't acceptable when a team like South Korea playing against a way weaker team

for Qatar vs Iraq I'm still not sure , this game is the toughest IMO in this whole stage
I will update here and share my thoughts after the first match ends , but most likely I won't make a bet

I'm expecting a defensive approach for Iraq, Qatar has been impressive in this tournament and I won't be surprised if they go ahead to lift the trophy, Qatar are also yet to concede a goal in their first 3 matches. I'm leaning towards under 2.5 goals for tbis fixture.


South Korea have an indeed more experienced team than Bahrain and should pick up an easy win against Bahrain. I'm having them on a win at Halftime

Indeed Qatar won the game by 1-0 vs Iraq. Next match against South Korea will be hard to predict but Qatar seems to have a better chance.

It is not that easy but South Korea did it finally  2-1 :)

such a disappointing performance from South Korea , I was expecting them to dominate the game and rain the net but it seems they are having problems with scoring goals
the good news is that Qatar made it to the next stage , to be honest I was worried about this game since I have an outright on Qatar but they managed to win
next game against South Korea , and bookies as usual overrating Korea
I found places where Qatar odds to qualify is X3.50 which is insane IMO !!! I will probably take it but waiting for more bookies to offer the lines

Which places were these? Do you care to share the site perhaps?
Also is the site tipstrr in your tipster thread a good place to subscribe to?
Just looking for an inside edge on some matches in the future cause I bet on Qatar after they scored and the odds were pretty good where I placed this bet. But always good to try other sites.

Qatar have been playing impressively well in this Asian Cup tournament, after eliminating Iraq in the round of 8, Qatar will be playing against South Korea in the Quarter-finals. Even though the performance of Qatar is indeed impressive, but I guess this amazing winning streak for Qatar in this Asian Cup tournament might be coming to an end soon, as I strongly believe South Korea will be able to beat Qatar in the Quarter-finals.

The streak might come to an end, but I don't consider it feasible. South Korea has had issue against a less organized teams, If they're by any chance going to win against this Qatar team, I'm sure they'd get a run for their money.

I'm still liking my chances with Qatar, and you bet if the bookies favour South Korea, which they will, I'll be backing them. I almost won a very nice parlay yesterday South Korea/Qatar/Bristol (EFL) but of course Bahrain had to ruin my party by equalising... I bet on the S Koreans to win at Full Time.

So far my Qatar-Japan final prediction is still on. The first deserves it, the latter not really. I still think it's unfair Australia got through, I'll be betting on the hosts to outdo them.

it was on fortunejack , now odds for Qatar to qualify is X3.05 in sportsbet ( without price boost ) and X3.16 in fortunejack so odds went a little down
regarding tipstrr it's a platform for tipsters , so there are plenty of tipsters there some are good and others are bad

at the moment I only follow 3 accounts in tipstrr and one is free , you can check the shortlist there
the other 2 paid tipsters that I follow are Wadstertips and HODL , both of these guys have over 30% ROI and worth following

South Korea are definitely favourites, they have many good players who ply their trade in Europe’s best leagues.
I think they will crush Qatar if I’m honest.

Vietnam against Japan tomorrow and as usual Japan the most favourite comparing to their opponent but Japan ML is not good option for me because the odds are far to decent however i was thinking to pick over 2.5 goals for this match

I think the Japan to win at full-time odds is of the best value @ 1.33 and I'd grab that, Japan has well won all the previous encounters between both teams, I'm not liking the over 2.5 goals idea simply because it's a knockout stage that I'd expect both teams to play with extreme caution.

I'm a sucker, Sy, and I'm even willing to bet on Vietnam to somehow overcome Japan even though I think they're going to go through all the way to the final (even though I wish they don't). I caught a bet on Fairlay at > 14/1, and right now it's more like 11/1 on most places, so I'll be very happy to win.

Tell you what, though. China, as much as I thought they shouldn't have gone through against Thailand... I fancy their chances against Iran. I prefer to think they're BOTH equally strong (or equally weak) in this tournament, even if on paper Iran is the clear winner. I also took a bet on them (Betcoin) @10.5

So yeah, let's spring a surprise guys... it would be incredible to have 1 Southeast Asian team in the Semis!

I guess Vietnam might approach this game with a defensive playing style, Vietnam obviously knew that Japan is much more stronger than them in every areas and the only chance for them to beat Japan is to drag the game into penalty shootout, but I believe Japan will not allow Vietnam to drag this game into overtime today, my prediction would be Japan to beat Vietnam in full time today and the number of goals would be under 2.5 goals.

well at that price yeah Vietnam totally worth taking the shot even it lost
I haven't made any bet on AFC today , was really busy the whole day and didn't even touch the laptop till now

I like your China bet , I would say it's really a close game and odds for Iran are ridiculous
still not sure what to bet and game will start in 9 minutes , I might go for draw and China +1 but most likely I will just watch the first half and make a live bet on betfair in 2nd half
sportsbet.io isn't loading now for some reason and it's the site that I'm using for Asiancup since their margins are the best for this specific event 

Bad day... Japan won by a goal but the surprising thing is Iran beating China with three goals!
Tomorrow games are challenging too! I think Qatar and UAE have more chances to win, although Australia is a good team too  :)

Japan vs Vietnam fixture was predictable, I had Japan to win and total of under 2.5 goals, but as you've pointed out already about China vs Iran match, although I did not place any bet of that fixture as I wasn't sure of what to expect from the match, If were to place a bet on that match I'd have gone for under 2.5 goals which would have resulted in a loss.

Incredible games yesterday, Vietnam probably deserved to lose on overall performance but they still gave Japan a torrid time with all those early fouls. 1-0, losing to a penalty isn't a bad result at all.

The real surprise is the 3 goals China conceded. I never fancied them but I thought there was a surprise in store.

I'm having a hard time with today's gut decision to again choose the underdogs, who must surely have at least 1 surprise... or go for the reliable bookie pickings so far for victory? Will post later my bets~

I was quite disappointed at first when the referee did not award a penalty immediately to Japan after a rash challenge was made by the Vietnam player, but luckily the referee decided to use the VAR technology to watch the replay on the challenge made by the Vietnam player. In my opinion, that was clearly a penalty and the referee did not made the wrong decision to award a penalty to Japan, Iran are a strong team in Asian and I believe Japan will be having a hard time playing against them in the Semi-finals.

I was also disappointed with that decision but lately he has used the technolgy for confirming again. Otherwise, it would be a bad decision. Japan vs Iran match will be a good match to watch. It is unpredictable. Both team playing well. I wish Japan win the match.

I didn't watching the match Vietnam against Japan only bets for over 2.5 goals but lost and seems Vietnam able to compete with Japan in this game because Japan only able to made score through penaltykick not from open game and indeed lost is lost whatever the final score but at least Vietnam was successfully can increase their game level

I did bet on Japan yesterday and won the bet, the odd was low 1.33 but I am happily playing this cup as the games seem to be going well for gamblers. I placed a bet on South Korea today as the odd was 2.1 at bet365 and was against Qatar, I have seen both teams playing and I think I will win this bet today too because South Korea plays better and have also beaten Germany.

Qatar cant be underestimated.
Watched their match against Iraq and they were solid defense wise. Offense is another subject but they held up good.
Is South Korea a super power in these Asian cup matches cause I have not watched them play yet.

The match against Germany in the World cup is as way back as 6-7 months ago, I don't think that should be taken in to consideration to analyze this fixture, Every knew germany was terrible at the World cup and even after the world cup. South Korea could only beat Germany buy never qualified from the group stage either.  This Qatar team should never be underestimated, and I wouldn't be taken aback should they win this match.

If they lose as well, I think this team should leave the stadium with their heads held up high because they've had a fantastic tournament in my opinion. I'm really backing them to cause an upset today!

I didn't really follow ASIAN CUP and yesterday I lost because I bet for Vietnam vs Japan about goals over 2.5, lol. Now I want to try again for South Korea vs Qatar match with the same type of bet, which is over 2.5 with an odds of 2.44 or maybe over 1.5 odds 1.47, because I'm sure Qatar can provide great resistance to South Korea, so I'm not sure of the type of bet ML. Hopefully I'm not mistaken this time.

I wouldnt bet on goals for this match. It is a toss up really.
I went with Qatar to win and with the above person who said they are saying their might be an upset in this match.
I did go with an over for the Australia match going on later today. Those two teams know how to score and the host team will not go down without a fight. I put over 2.5 goals for with 2.39x odds.

first game for today South Korea vs Qatar .. here are my thoughts :

I have shared here before few days ago that the odds for Qatar to win or to qualify are really good to take and I was right cause odds went lower the next day
placed one unit on Qatar to qualify X3.59 sportsbet odds after boost , now it's lower so the value is really small ( X2.87 after boost )

we all saw how Qatar played great against all of their opponents , they won all of their games without having to go extra time and all teams failed to score against Qatar
South Korea disappointed me last game and showed me that they aren't as good as we expect them to be

I placed 2 units as well on Qatar to score at least one goal , odds for that in sportsbet is X1.74 after boost and I strongly believe this is the best play for this match
Qatar has one of the best striking lines in Asia and they have the top goal scorer for the competition Almoez Ali scoring 7 goals so far !!

Where have you been? Haha! South Korea and Japan are practically Asian royalty - and if you need a reminder of how well they play despite certain physicalities in height, you only need to rewind to 2018 World Cup to see how doggedly they can take a match.

All the same, I took a Qatar bet only because they are still the darkhorses of this tourney.


Totally with you on this, my friend! I actually caught them at around 4.6 on Bitcoinrush (https://www.bitcoinrush.io/sportsbook/ShareBet?id=1tojNRkK0hMQtpWr3VfAQllOkpFrnOWe07KE%2B%2BtMMLs%3D), but you know, I just HAD to parlay it with 2 other games haha... They had even better on Fairlay too, it's almost 5/1 now if you still want to bet!

So far so good, they're the only team with 1 shot on target, though not very pretty possession wise. Almoez FTW!

Coming right now and it is draw between Qatar and South Korea after 78 minutes with a 61% possession for the South Korean. Extra-time maybe?

Edit : Qatar just scored (fixed the time)

I just started watching at the 60 minute of the second half.
And from what I have seen so far South Korea has just been sitting back and not putting pressure on Qatar and thats why they scored at the 80 minute mark and are probably going to win the game.
And just now they are starting to want to score. They dont start to strike in the last minutes of the game?
Not to smart for a team to start doing with a qatar team whom I watched during their last game laying in waiting until they opponents are too tired to do anything.
And now they are leading they know how to waste time by falling to the ground and having their stretcher come on the field in the dying minutes of the game.
That seems to be the smarter team in this asian cup.

I see now why Tottenham hot spurs have over very high odds of winning their match against Chelsea the other day.
https://i.ibb.co/GQHn96T/Clipboard0.jpg (https://ibb.co/GQHn96T)

Qatar made history today qualifying for the semi final , I knew they will play good football and as expected Korea didn't dominate the game as bookies expected
won both of my bets and my outright bet is looking better and better , it will officially win if Australia was able to knock out UAE but if somehow UAE managed to qualify I can make a hedge next game and still secure nice profits

moving to the next game , to be honest I hate how both of UAE and Australia play and both teams were really overrated in the past games against weaker opponents
UAE defense isn't strong so betting on Australia to score at least 2 goals may be good (X2.17 sportsbet odds ) since Australia usually creates a lot of chances

to be honest I don't like this game or this bet a lot , but going for it just to enjoy the game since today secured a lot of profit

Yes I agree with you completely on your assumption on the next match today with Australia going up against the UAE.
Really unpredictable on the result but goals should be a plenty especially from the visitors but the hosts will not go quietly like S.Korea just did.
I saw the odds of the Qatar game and it was 4.74x before the match started and couldnt resist on taking the dark horse team.
Those odds were just to irresistible to pass up and glad you cashed in on the game as well.

South Korea is one of the most strongest football team in Asia, they even managed to beat Germany 2-0 in the world cup held in Russia, I am pretty sad to see South Korea getting eliminated from the Asian Cup tournament, but Qatar did indeed scored an amazing goal from long range and I believe it truly caught the South Korea goalkeeper by surprise.

The S.Korea goal keeper did underestimate qatars striking force when put in the right position.
It skipped the ground but Aziz aimed for the g.k left corner all the way from the point of contact.
Totally caught him off guard then it smooth sailing to the victory because of their well known capability of spending as much time with falling to ground with the slightest touch.

Yes! I said it, I knew this Qatar could do it and Indeed they made me proud and another whopping bet of 4.5 odds won :P
Let's just see how far they can go now, I tip them to make the finals.

UAE just scored in other fixture against Australia in the 69th minute. If they see it through then it will be UAE vs Qatar for the semis..

South Korea is a good team but comparing it to the 2018 German team is biased. Germany performance was just shameful in the last World Cup.
For UAE and Australia it is draw until the moment +65' with an Australian possession >60%. The Qatari scenario could happen again?
Edit : UAE just scored!  :)

That has got to be the worst goal in the entire competition Australia just gave up to the uae.
Kruse passed it to the goalkeeper but it ended up on a uae defender and he scores an easy one.
It is just a shock to everyone Australia hasnt been able to put one in the net.
Didnt they score 6 - 0 against oman at the beginning of this competition?

What happened to the uae player at the last minute of regulation?
It looked like he snapped his neck during that header with the australian defender.

UAE win just banged all my expectations and that's due the poor Australian performance , I said it before I don't like how both of these teams play but didn't expect Australia to be that bad and waste qualifying for the next

what I'm annoyed about the most is that I thought my outright for Qatar to be the best west Asian team won since UAE is the last other west Asian team
I still think that Qatar is better but now it's too much risk for me since surprises happen a lot in this competition , I may have to hedge and bet UAE to qualify to the final

now it seems that Iran is the clear favor to win it all judging but the qualifiers and how all of them played , I may take Iran to win the title if odds went to over X2.20

Could you imagine the odds for the ones who took both underdog teams for today?
Qatar was at 4.75x odds before the match started and UAE must of been over 11x odds pre live.
I bet live after they scored at the 68' mark and got 1.5x odds.

I expected before that Qatar and UAE will win but indeed both games were going initially in the opposite direction!
I expect Qatar to win although the game is in their opponent country, they deserve to pass to the final. For Iran vs Japan, I think most people will bet for Iran, i think it has a better chance but in the AFC everything is possible and teams performance are as unstable as bitcoin price  :P

I wasn't following the Asian Cup, but I just saw on the news that both South Korea and Australia have been eliminated from the competition...wtf? shocking...I thought South Korea was one of the main favorites to win the whole thing  ::)

Now we have the semi-finals: Iran vs Japan / Qatar vs UAE

I guess Iran is now the favorite to win the cup?

UAE was the surprise of the day tbh, and I think I can easily say Qatar will indeed make to the finals. I might even place a bet on them to lift the trophy now if the point is somewhat enticing.

I'll say Qatar vs Japan for finals.

Too many surprises at the AFC Cup now only Japan and Iran are the strongest candidates as champions
But I want to see Iran vs Qatar in the final and Qatar come out as champions  ::)

This is what I just placed for a futures bet and the odds were just as good for them to win today.
Iran are favorites to win then Japan and UAE are last according to the odds bookies have on the remaining teams.

Hey it’s true and equally surprising that Australia and South Korea are out of the tournament, I found it hard to believe that UAE managed to knock out the defending champions Australia. I believe we shall see a final between Iran and Qatar, and i feel Qatar has the potential to win the cup. It’ll be interesting to see if Japan and UAE make it to the final, but I doubt that can happen.

@SyGambler, well done on Qatar. I was idiotic enough to parlay it with Australia win, hoping to get almost 10x win but yesterday, of all days, was the day both underdogs pulled through. Should have parlayed them, would have gotten over 22x! Guess that'll teach me.

Like you, I like neither Australia nor UAE, but at least the bloody Aussies are out, the way they play is just so uninspiring, and I'm sure Qatar will prefer to defeat the hosts.

Looks like a Japan-Qatar final I've been predicting since group stage is still on the cards?

Iran vs Qatar is my favorite and I want Qatar to make a new history at the AFC Cup 2019
Odds for Qatar champion @ 4.35 I think is not bad

Yup! Iran are the favourites against Japan today, but I took a Japan bet @3.6 and parlayed it against another game. Fairlay has it at almost 3.7, but if it goes to above 4/1 I'm definitely taking a single on it. If you like Iran, Onehas has it at incredible odds (3.754!).

I took a Qatar 4.5x outright (https://fairlay.com/market/afc-cup-2019-winner-all-in-4/?referral=2130e697-c138-436a-a753-de8ca2436301) on Fairlay. I would have done so earlier but wasn't available at any of my books. History must be made, indeed!

The tournament currently belong to middle east teams or at least one of them will reach to final match and i just looking for the best odds for Iran ML but seems almost all of sportbooks provide low odds for them and i was so curious why they did it but match analysis says during met Iran then Japan always have bad results but according their latest met which is it less of goals i think possibly it will happen again so under 2.5 goals would be my pick instead of Iran ML

under 2.5 has max of X1.44 odds , so odds for this is low as well
I like Iran to win , but since this is the semi final I'm afraid Iran will play cautiously at first and not the same way they played against China last match where they dominated the game

I have said it different times , Japan is really so overrated and they are not as good as they were in last years or even in last Worldcup

Iran and Qatar are the only Asian teams who kept improving since last year

I took a max bet on Iran to qualify X1.65 and I guess this is the only bet I'm gonna take today

How the hell are Qatar doing so well? Who do their players play for in club football?

give me a single reason for them not doing well !!! they have plenty of young talents
Qatar does give the nationality for good players , so whenever they find a good player who isn't welling to play for his mother country they bring him to Qatar

they have invested literally billions of dollars on football since they are preparing both of their team and country for the world cup 2022

when the outrights for the asian cup first appeared on bookies I knew that bookies are way underestimating Qatar  so Qatar isn't a surprise at all for me

the real surprise was seeing Syria getting knocked out from group stages

Yes Qatar is thinking and investing in the long term to have a good team for the next world Cup in their county. They may do well as Russia or even better if they improve further their performance!
For Syria, the country is unstable and playing under pressure is not beneficial for anyone...

Now surprise surprise, Japan kicked Iran from the tournament with 3 goals - 0!!!
Japan - Qatar next?

I was expecting and backed Japan to win the match, to make it to the final but what I never saw coming was 3 goals, I expected  a scoreline of a goal difference in favor of Japan.
I'll say my prediction for the final is well on track, Lets see if Qatar can complete the final piece tomorrow.

actually regarding war in Syria all people are counting it as a motivation for the team , and in last world cup qualifications Syria surprised all the other teams and they were really close to qualify to world cup

Iran surprisingly out , lost a lot of money in this match since I had a bet on them to qualify and another bet on them to win the Asian Cup
it looked like the players had no motivation at all today , this match was really different if we compare it with the previous matches for Iran

Yeah. Nobody seen Japan scoring so many goals against Iran.
Qatar are a good team and can score when they are doing and feeling good.
They did score 6 against a Korea DPR team with 0 by them.

I was actually eyeing a 2-0 correct score for Japan at 18/1, wonder what the payout for 3-0 would have been. Japan sucked ass, but I guess they have been slowly taking time to get into gear, unlike Iran who probably just got tired, I don't know. The fighting at the end of the game just seems to show that everything was frayed by the SF stage.

Me being an idiot, my 2nd-leg of parlay DIDN'T work out, so I lost my Japan bet anyway.

Qatar is the favourite for the first time I recall, but for x2.5 it's still a good bet. Japan awaits... and I rated them badly but still expected them to reach the final, which they have. Unlucky that they will be at their peak, but I'm still confident in the Qataris.

Qatar are in amazing form in this Asian Cup tournament and I believe the morale of the Qatar players are high too, they are just a step away to get into the finals for this Asian Cup tournament, and I believe Qatar will be able to fulfill their dream to get into the finals by beating United Arab Emirates today.

We are both in this together, I guess. One of favorite bookies offered Qatar to win the trophy at a whopping 6+ Offs I'm feeling super lucky and tempted to place quite a bet on this, Or maybe I'll just bet on them to win today for a 2.20+ Odds and expect close to 4 Odds against Japan if they win today then go all in with today's winnings.

today is the day for me , been waiting too long for my Qatar to be best West Asian team outright bet that I got t at X14.00
profit for that bet would be 0.26 btc , so honestly I couldn't take the risk anymore after watching how Iran was knocked out yesterday so I hedged a little and placed 50 mbtc on UAE to qualify

I still like Qatar to win today , also I guess the match will end with one goal or with no goals so going for under 1.5 goals may worth it cause usually these type of games are really tight and both of the teams ended winning by just one goal in the last games

anyway I guess I will just watch the game and hope that Qatar can make it to the final , makes no sense for me to do any more bets cause my outright is looking good

It is looking this way from scoring 4 goals on the UAE team which was just like the Japan game with Iran for a cleansheet.
And to top things off UAE gets a red card in the last minute of the match for a pass crossing the midfield line which was weird to say the least. They had to use VAR for it and then Qatar scores their last goal in injury time.
Their dream of being in the finals is complete.

Their odds to hold up the trophy before todays game was 4.35 odds so I dont think they will be near the same odds to be against Japan. But todays odds of 2.28 on the lines I was looking at before todays game was very nice but I went for over on goals and hit for better odds at 3.25x.

Everyone expected to see Qatar in the final game but it was a huge defeat for UAE in the other hand. Would like to see the face of UAE leaders after this shameful end!
Now Japan vs Qatar will be a good game to watch, hope to see Qatar winning since it was the best team by far but the Japanese are not easy too  :)

Qatar made history today , it's the first time that Qatar reach the final
also Qatar is the first team in the whole Asian Cup history to reach the final with clean sheet

so glad for them , they have been working on this team for years and I must say this team can certainly compete in world cup with such young talented men

waiting for bookies to offer the lines for the final , but  most likely will go for Qatar to lift the trophy cause it's a happy story and it's a shame if they can't finish it with the trophy  :D

It'll be a great sight to see, but should they fail to lift the trophy I don't think it would change their impressive tournament so far, They should be extremely proud of themselves regardless of the final outcome, but the tales will be more complete if they can win the trophy.

Despite them reaching the Asian Cup final for the first time ever, I think that stat you mention is actually more impressive...really shows that this isn't just some lucky team, they actually have a solid defensive system.

Funny how the next world cup will be in Qatar, it'll be interesting to see what these young players can do in +3 years. And let's not forget that they'll have a big test in June since they were invited to participate in the Copa America, they'll play against the likes of Colombia and Argentina in the group stages.

If you did not mentioned about it, I would not noticed that Qatar has managed to keep a clean sheet throughout this Asian Cup tournament to reach the final, Qatar has managed to score four goals against United Arab Emirates in the Semi-finals yesterday, and I think this is a strong signal sent to Japan that Qatar are a team that are capable of scoring goals.

You got my feeling. Final will be a good one. Both the team is really playing good. It will not be easier to win for any team. As per Xavi who had correctly predicted that Qatar and Japan will play the final, said that Qatar will be the winner. Almost all of his predictions on AFC came true. Now, it's time to see whether the final one will also happen or not.
https://www.foxsportsasia.com/football/asian-football/afc-asian-cup/1032166/barcelona-legend-xavi-correctly-predicted-a-japan-vs-qatar-finals-in-the-afc-asian-cup-2019-before-the-tournament-even-started/

You gave me a new mission. From now on I am going to follow the predictions coming from Xavi LOL
Yes, indeed. No one would have thought that Qatar will be in final. They played well in the whole tournament and in my opinion they deserve the cup although Japan is the favorite here. 

Finally got a nice 5x parlay done well thanks to Qatar's comprehensive victory. What a way for the finalists to go through. 3-0 and 4-0 emphatic wins!


That's a really amazing bet x14 my friend. I wish my bookies would have offered outrights earlier. I know you shared a few but I was a bit tight with time and didn't manage to open new accounts. I eventually bet Qatar but only at x4.5 so they're in the final and I feel I've got a good chance at that. I'll even hedge with a Japan ML, depending on the scores. To ensure I win something out of this tournament!

First time in a long time I got the finalists right in a major tourney though... just a pity I lost so much money from parlays that lost because of favourites haha.


No idea this was a thing! I also predicted Japan-Qatar but secretly wanted Syria or someone from Southeast Asia to win. I was wrong that syria would progress from group, or that Australia wouldn't reach QFs...

yeah I watched all the episodes of that show , it's called "Twakkoaati" which means "My Predictions"
when Xavi made his selections people here and in Arab world overall made fun of him , they said that Xavi predicted that just because he is playing in Qatar and probably got paid to make such prediction  ;D

well they were all wrong and Xavi was right  :D

Even if Qatar makes it to the finals I think that Japan is going to win the tournament.
This team even when they are in a bad form and they cannot play good football they have the chance to win the game with an opportunity that will start from a foul or a corner or even a counter-attack. I am in favor of Japan and if I find a satisfying odd I will bet for them.

They are in the finals. :)
And you are right Japan is no joke and should not be taken lightly.
Qatar is on a roll and have not been scored on in the tournament yet.
This being said it is more than likely they will be scored on and might even cause them to lose the match.
If Japan can score on them early enough they will panic and not concentrate on scoring but defending which will cost them the finals.

Right, Sy, you must be hoping Qatar win so you get your outrights, my outright was only 4.5 (in my mind I kept thinking it was 6.5 but I guess I caught it a bit late!). I was actually thinking to put a small hedge on Japan to qualify but odds too crap (1.5), and if I bet on a Japan win, I lose if it goes to extra time.

So I'll do my usual risky move and bet on Qatar again haha at 3.93 ;)

So what is the play for the game today.
Havent seen Japan play yet and watched three qatar games and they were impressive and havent been scored on yet in the contest.
So would this mean Japan will be all over them early to get that first goal and ruin their clean sheet?
Maybe an over on goals would be a more realistic bet if they happen to draw and go into overtime then penalties like how most finals go.

Japan are combative. They're not pretty to watch even though they can be if they choose - same string of performances at World Cup, very niggly, they like to get at you but it's not exactly the positive modern football I prefer to see now... which is what makes Qatar a breath of fresh air in this tourney - very exuberant, is somewhat disjointed in build up. The talent is obvious in the latter though, and they really do have a good team plus a good way of national management as Sy pointed out before (they are like Singapore in the start, willing to grant nationality to sportsmen).

I think the force of nature will mean yes, Qatar will maintain 100% defensive record. And they will win without extra time. No use playing fancy lines that won't pay as well as a ML outcome anyway. (It's about 2.4/3.4/3.8 right now).

It was looking good there for qatar in the first half but the samurai put one past the goalkeeper 28 minutes into the second half.
I played over 2.5 goals and the pay out was 2.9x odds. Alot less then the 2.5 goals of their last game against UAE.
Did notice the odds prelive for over 4.5 goals were 12x odds. But I dont think anybody would of put anything on this.

upadte: Nevermind penalty kick awarded to qatar. They won the cup.

Annnnd it is over, Qatar made the history by winning the cup with its good performance and by kicking teams used to be the masters of the AFC with more than 2x goals difference.
Wish they could be as good as now in the next world Cup in Qatar.

Qatar played very well against Japan at the final in the Asian Cup tournament, even though Japan has managed to gain much more possession of the ball for the whole match, but the Japan players are struggling hard to create goal scoring opportunity against Qatar, and they have indeed pay a big price for it to lose in the finals against Qatar.

great pick mate , sorry I didn't have time till now to check the forums cause my uncle just came back from travel and I haven't seen him since 9 years

yeah Qatar didn't disappoint me , I knew they have huge chance to make it since day 1 and bookies underestimated them all they way since game 1
my outright cashed and my bet for Qatar to win today cashed as well , great performance

keep remembering this team cause we will see them in many upcoming big events , bookies may now realize how good they are so maybe we won't be able to get good prices for Qatar in the future  :(

The next world cup is in qatar? Didnt realize this until you mentioned it.
Now it all makes sense with their ferousity in this so to make them look good and a contender in that tournament for their own home in the world stage.
Someone did also mention they have poured alot of money into training this squad to make them a world class football club.
I wouldnt doubt this one bit now after seeing their performance in this cup finals.

Japan didnt look to set offensively and when in the box did not pose any threat to the defense at all.
I did notice they had somewhere near 57-59% possession of the ball then the qatar team with 43-41% at the 60 minute mark before japan scored their first goal.
But before the penalty kick given for a hand ball the japanese samurais did have a chance to tie the game.
The qatar team just knows how to tactically be more effective when they possess the ball. They knew when to take advantage of the other team all through out the tournament.
What I mean is falling down even when not touched by the opposing team which switches things around in their favor for instance.
While not honest it does frustrate the other team as it did with japan which I did not see them today demean themselves using these tactics.
Not taking anything away from the qatar team but noticed this watching most of their games during the past month.
But well deserved win for them.

Lo and Behold, Qatar are Champions of Asia! it has been an incredible journey for them all through the tournament and without no doubt, they fully deserve to win the trophy. They were one of the underdogs coming into the tournament but I became a fan after their first game against Lebanon, and gradually they became my favorite team in the tournament, I've back them in every single match after the first game, as well as to win the trophy with 6x odds  :P

At last, Qatar won. Sorry for Japan. Qatar really played well and they deserve to be the champion. Xavi's prediction was right lol. All the awards goes to Qatar while Japan got the best fair play award.

No problem Sy, if I had the chance to catch up with anyone after that long a time, I'd even give up watching Liverpool. Love football but real life's always more important.

Great tournament for me all in all... You're absolutely right, the bookies totally got this all wrong, Qatar's behind-closed-doors training must have really helped keep expectations low. I never even knew who their manager was until the photos started appearing after friendlies. I haven't done my full calculations, but thanks to the outright and the good odds on the final alone I made a tidy profit.

Now all eyes will be on them, wonder which competition is up next for them... and then qualifiers to start all over again after draws in July. Qatar actually will also play in qualification as the first two WC qualification rounds are also 2023 AFC Cup qualification!

Great initiative for starting up this thread, btw!