Syria beat China and strengthen their lead in Group A at the end of the first leg of the Asian and World Cup qualifiers

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Syria beat China 2-0 at the Maktoum Bin Rashid Stadium in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

The win lifted our team to 12 points to strengthen the lead of Group A ahead of China, who remained second with 7 points, and the Philippines team in third place after raising the tally to 7 points by beating the Maldives today 2-1, while the balance of the Maldives team in fourth place at 3 points Guam are fifth and last without points.

The defensive caution was evident on the two teams since the beginning of the game. The Chinese team relied on closing their defensive area in front of our team's attacks until the 19th minute, where our team managed to open the scoring with a header from Osama Omri. Taking advantage of the absence of defensive control to end the first half draw 1-0.

In the first quarter of the second half our team threatened the goal of the opponent with more than one ball, but it did not translate into goals, most notably Omar Soma shot in the 61 minute, which was saved by the Chinese goalkeeper followed by two minutes shot and the safety of the neighboring neighbor until the 75th minute announced the progress Our team a second goal from a cross for Omar Khribin bounced from the Chinese defender to turn into an own goal and passed minutes to keep the result intact and ended the game with the victory of our team 2 - goal.

The team will return to meet his Philippine counterpart in the return on the nineteenth of this month in the United Arab Emirates, where this game will be the last play on our virtual home "Emirates Stadiums" waiting for the month of April to begin the journey to play on the other teams.

The team opened their qualifying campaign with a big victory over the Philippines 5-2 and won in the second meeting against the Maldives 2-1 and Guam 4-0 in its third match.

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