The battle for the top four sees the gap in Asian football narrow. Mohebi, who came on as a substitute for suspended striker Taremi, equalized the score in this knockout match and sounded the counterattack horn.
The Japanese team lost a total of two games in Doha: they lost to Iraq 1:2 in the second round of the group stage, and were reversed and eliminated by Iran in the quarter-finals 1:1. After the host Qatar team narrowly defeated Uzbekistan on penalty kicks, there are three final games left in this Asian Cup.