{"id":28271,"date":"2024-01-27T13:02:49","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T04:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=28271"},"modified":"2024-01-27T13:02:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T04:02:49","slug":"nine-men-kyrgyzstan-went-down-2-0-to-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2024\/01\/27\/nine-men-kyrgyzstan-went-down-2-0-to-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine-Men Kyrgyzstan Went Down 2-0 to Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday, Saudi Arabia secured a comfortable 2-0 victory over a nine-man Kyrgyzstan in Group F of the 2023 AFC Asian Cup at Ahmad bin Ali Stadium. With this second consecutive win, the three-time champions have confirmed their place in the knockouts, while Kyrgyzstan remains without a point from two games.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The troubles for Kyrgyzstan began early, as Aizar Akmatov received a red card in the ninth minute for a reckless challenge on Sami Al-Naji just outside the box. Despite a valiant effort by Mohammed Al-Burayk in the resulting free-kick, Kyrgyzstani goalkeeper Erzhan Tokotaev made a flying save.<\/p>\n

In the 27th minute, Saudi Arabia had a prime opportunity to take the lead when Al-Burayk delivered a precise cross, but Feras Al-Buraikan’s header missed the target. The opening goal for Saudi Arabia came in the 35th minute when Saud Abdulhamid crossed for Mohammed Kanno to convert after Abdulelah Al-Malki’s powerful strike hit the post.<\/p>\n

Kyrgyzstan faced further setbacks in the second half, with Kimi Merk receiving a red card five minutes in for a heavy challenge on Hassan Tambakti. Kanno had a chance to double his tally in the 72nd minute, but his header hit the post.<\/p>\n

In the 85th minute, substitute Faisal Al-Ghamdi secured Saudi Arabia’s second goal with a powerful shot from the edge of the area, as Tokotaev’s attempt to punch it away ended with the ball in the net.<\/p>\n

Despite late attempts by Abdulrahman Ghareeb and Ali Al-Bulayhi, Saudi Arabia couldn’t add more goals. The Green Falcons concludes the group stage at Education City Stadium on Thursday in a top-of-the-table clash against Thailand, who currently sit second with four points after a 0-0 draw with Oman. Kyrgyzstan’s chances of advancing as one of the best-ranked third-place teams hinge on a win against Oman and favorable results elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Sunday, Saudi Arabia secured a comfortable 2-0 victory over a nine-man Kyrgyzstan in Group F of the 2023 AFC Asian Cup at Ahmad bin Ali Stadium. With this second consecutive win, the three-time champions have confirmed their place in the knockouts, while Kyrgyzstan remains without a point from two games. The troubles for Kyrgyzstan began early, as Aizar Akmatov received a red card in the ninth minute for a reckless challenge on Sami Al-Naji just outside the box. Despite a valiant effort by Mohammed Al-Burayk in the resulting free-kick, Kyrgyzstani goalkeeper Erzhan Tokotaev made a flying save. In the 27th minute, Saudi Arabia had a prime opportunity to take … Continue reading “Nine-Men Kyrgyzstan Went Down 2-0 to Saudi Arabia”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":28287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,25],"tags":[109,926,2218,2583,1303,311,95,2429],"class_list":["post-28271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc-asian-cup","category-asia","tag-afc-asian-cup","tag-asia","tag-asian-cup","tag-central-asia","tag-kyrgyzstan","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-slider","tag-west-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28272,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28271\/revisions\/28272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}