HANGZHOU, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) — Japan beat Qatar 3-1 within the first spherical of Group D within the Hangzhou Asian Games males’s soccer competitions right here on Wednesday.
Despite being composed principally of school gamers, the Japanese facet remains to be a powerful title contender.
Japan scored from a free kick simply two minutes into the sport, and prolonged their result in 2-0 within the twenty fifth minute.
After the restart, Qatar strengthened the assault and scored from lengthy vary to get well their hope with greater than 10 minutes left.
In the ultimate stage of the sport, Japan scored once more to seal a 3-1 win.
Also on Wednesday, two group matches in Group C have been canceled because of the withdrawal of the Afghan and Syrian groups, and Uzbekistan and Hong Kong, China progressed to the spherical of 16 prematurely.