Japan and Uzbekistan will meet in the last of the AFC Under 23 Asian Cup 2024 in Qatar subsequent to getting 2-0 successes over Iraq and Indonesia in their particular elimination rounds. The two nations have likewise gotten their capability for the Paris Olympics 2024 by arriving at the last. First-half objectives from Mao Hosoya and Ryotaro Araki were sufficient to get a familiar success for Japan over Iraq in the second elimination round at Jassim container Hamad Arena in Doha on Monday.
Hosoya put the 2016 heroes in front in the 28th moment and Araki multiplied the lead 14 minutes after the fact during a directing exhibition by Go Oiwa's side, with commander Joel Fujita at the core of a prevailing showcase. The Japanese will take on Timur Kapadze's Uzbekistan in Friday's last at a similar scene. The final Olympic football space from the Asian locale will be concluded in the bronze award match between the two losing semifinalists Iraq and Indonesia on Thursday.
The Samurai Blue from the Far East were in fine structure against their West Asian rivals in the subsequent elimination round, with Fujita driving from the front. The scoreline might have been different had Japan not been denied by Iraq's goalkeeper Hussein Hasan on a few events. At the point when play continued at 2-0 after half-time, Ali not set in stone to score as Iraq looked for a way back into the game yet was kept out by the Japanese guard.
Japan continued to press through the final part yet couldn't add to the scoreline. In the mean time, Uzbekistan finished Indonesia's moving run at the competition with one more solid execution in their elimination round. Khusayin Norchaev scored for the Focal Asian country to break the gridlock in the 68th moment and an own objective from Pratama Arhan a short ways from full-time fixed the football-distraught South East Asian nation's destiny. They will in any case get one more opportunity of fitting the bill for the Olympics when they meet Iraq in Thursday's bronze decoration match.