With the Australia victory Saudi Arabia , Vietnam and Iraq having 11 Points each against Top Four sides have qualified for the Third round by emerging higher than Lebanon with 10 points , Tajikistan with 10 points and Jordan with 8 points.
Final spot is likely to be a fight between Uzbekistan and Lebanon. Uzbekistan will have to avoid defeat against the Saudis , otherwise Lebanon will go through. Rest all 11 teams are more or less obvious now.
The 4 SAFF nations other than India will be playing playoffs.
I think there will be some adjustments to the playoff spots. Qatar & North Korea not playing next rounds means some more teams will get direct qualification to 3rd round. As I said in the other thread, only 2 out of this 39 are going out.
Uzbekistan already down by 3 goals. Only 10 minutes game left. From here, don't think even Uzbekistan can get a point and they are out of 3rd WCQ. China leading by 1 goal against 2-1. Even if china lose this game, they will still qualify for next round. Kuwait leading by 1 goal. If they can win chinese Taipei, they will be runner-up as they have better GD compared to Jordan.
Runners-up who will go down are Tajikistan, Jordan/Kuwait & Uzbekistan (almost out)
Here's what I think is going to happen. Since only 2 team is going out, the maximum no. of teams in playoff can be 8. So 3 more teams will be guaranteed 3rd round spot. AFC can conduct playoffs with 6 or 4 teams too.
In other words, nothing was on the line for India tonight.
The 4 worst 5th placed teams (Indonesia, Cambodia, Chinese Taipei, Guam) will contest in the playoffs. The rest will go directly to the 3rd round group stage, according to AFC.
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With the Australia victory Saudi Arabia , Vietnam and Iraq having 11 Points each against Top Four sides have qualified for the Third round by emerging higher than Lebanon with 10 points , Tajikistan with 10 points and Jordan with 8 points.
I think there will be some adjustments to the playoff spots. Qatar & North Korea not playing next rounds means some more teams will get direct qualification to 3rd round. As I said in the other thread, only 2 out of this 39 are going out.
Kuwait leading by 1 goal. If they can win chinese Taipei, they will be runner-up as they have better GD compared to Jordan.
Runners-up who will go down are Tajikistan, Jordan/Kuwait & Uzbekistan (almost out)
In other words, nothing was on the line for India tonight.
Come on man, every body qualified. Even Bangladesh