Laos’ U19 side made headlines yesterday by opening their AFC Championship qualifying campaign with an impressive 2-2 draw against group favorites Australia. The Southeast Asian side raced into a two-goal lead before being pegged back in the second half.<\/p>\n
However, the point will remain valuable to them as it gives them a chance of springing a surprise and qualifying for the final tournament.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in the group, Chinese Taipei managed an 8-0 victory over Macau, putting them on top of the group. The islanders will face Laos in their next game, in a match that could be pivotal in deciding which team makes it to Uzbekistan next year.<\/p>\n
Thailand continued their march in Group G by putting no less than 21 goals against the Northern Mariana Islands. Not to be outdone, Malaysia managed to better the War Elephants’ 9-0 victory over Brunei by putting 11 past their neighbors, making the group a competition to wrack up the highest goal difference before the two giants face each other on the final day.<\/p>\n
The routs continued across the tournament, as South Korea laid a marker down by putting 11 past Singapore, with nine different goalscorers. China’s 2-0 victory over Myanmar means that this group could have a similar dynamic, as will the face-off between Japan and Vietnam who beat Guam and Mongolia respectively.<\/p>\n
Indonesia have also put themselves in a good position to qualify as they topped Group K with a 3-1 win over Timor Leste. North Korea, who likely represents their biggest challenge, only managed a 1-1 draw with Hong Kong, giving the Garuda<\/em> a significant advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Laos’ U19 side made headlines yesterday by opening their AFC Championship qualifying campaign with an impressive 2-2 draw against group favorites Australia. The Southeast Asian side raced into a two-goal lead before being pegged back in the second half. However, the point will remain valuable to them as it gives them a chance of springing a surprise and qualifying for the final tournament. Elsewhere in the group, Chinese Taipei managed an 8-0 victory over Macau, putting them on top of the group. The islanders will face Laos in their next game, in a match that could be pivotal in deciding which team makes it to Uzbekistan next year. Thailand continued … Continue reading “Laos U19 Pull Off 2-2 Draw With Australia in AFC Qualifying”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":20854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1883,110,57,101,64,70,68,105],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20855,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20850\/revisions\/20855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}