Great support.. Good planning.. Saudi interest and next steps.. Asian champion. The Hawks won the title with a historic double in Uzbekistan.

Our Olympic team won the 2022 Asian Under-23 Championship in Uzbekistan, beating the hosts of Uzbekistan 2-0 in the final match, which took place on Sunday at the Bunyodkor stadium in Tashkent. Ahmed Al Ghamdi (48) and Firas Al Braikan (74) scored the winning goals for Al Akhdar. Our team won the championship title for the first time in its history, losing twice in the final in 2013 and 2020. The Uzbek team won the title during the third tournament of 2018 in China when they defeated Vietnam in the final. Caution prevailed in the game between the two teams at the beginning of the match, and the period of feeling the pulse was extended, since the goal was not dangerous, since there were no shots on goal for more than 20 minutes. The first chance came in the 24th minute for Saudi Arabia when Ayman Yahya made a cross pass from the right side that caused a darbka in the goal before the ball reached Firas Al-Brykan before kicking. defenders and turned into a corner. On the other hand, the first blow from Uzbekistan in the 29th minute was delivered by Hussein Nurchaev from afar, but the ball easily fell into the hands of the goalkeeper Nawaf Al-Aqidi. Then the most notable opportunities for Uzbekistan were missed when Ulugbek Khashimov sent a back pass to Khodjimat Arkanov who hit the ball from a narrow angle, but he went over the crossbar (32). The video assistant referee intervened in the 43rd minute to cancel a penalty awarded by the referee on the green due to penetration at the start of a corner attack. Our team responded with a long pass, after which Al-Brikan headed to Yahya Ayman, who unexpectedly headed towards the empty goal, but the leading goalkeeper Nazarov corrected the situation and managed to transfer him to a corner (45 + 4). Al-Akhdar started the second half strongly to open the scoring in the 48th minute after a fast attack in which Hamad Al-Yami passed to Ahmed Al-Ghamdi in the arc of the penalty area to land a powerful and accurate shot from his left in the top right corner of the goal from goalkeeper Nazarov. After this goal, the Uzbekistan national team tried to put pressure in order to correct the result, but the Saudi Arabian team held back the attacks and tried to rely on quick counterattacks. The Uzbeks’ most notable opportunity was a long-range strike from Jasurbek Dzhalaldinov that went over the bar (63), then substitute Ruslanbek Dzhianov scored a goal that was ruled out for offside (71). The national team was able to add a second goal after a quick counter-attack led by substitute Turki Al-Ammar, who passed to Al-Braykan and delivered an accurate shot into the far corner of the Uzbek goalkeeper’s goal (74). Despite the attempts of the Uzbekistan national team to return with the result in the remaining minutes, the result remained unchanged, so that the Saudi Arabian team crowned the coveted continental title. Our team was in the first round of the Group D standings with 7 points in three matches, with a goal difference against Japan, compared to 3 points for Emirates and none for Tajikistan, then won the quarter-finals against Vietnam 2-0, and in the semi-finals against Australia 2-0. On the other hand, Uzbekistan topped the Group A standings with 7 points in three matches compared to 4 points for Turkmenistan and 2 points each for Iran and Qatar, and beat Iraq 3-2 on penalties in the quarter-finals after the two teams drew 2 :2 in regular and extra time, and before the final they beat Japan with a score of 2:0. Al-Akhdar was awarded the Asia title after achieving unprecedented records, best defense by not conceding a single goal throughout the tournament, best attack by scoring 13 goals, crowned with the title of perfect team, and Ayman Yahya won the title of best player. in the tournament.