The national team won their first victory in Australia, breaking the "white" historical knot that followed the "Kangaroo", after Ali Ali Mabkhout led the UAE to beat the defending champions with a 1-0 win in the Asian Cup semi-finals yesterday (UAE 2019) ), And face Qatar tomorrow at the Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium in Al-Jazira Club in Abu Dhabi, despite this historic victory, but the game saw five other historical figures decorated this victory over Australia.

The most important number is the qualification of the national team to the semi-finals for the second time in a row and the fourth in the history of the «White» in the Asian Cup, it is the first time that the national team to the semi-finals in two consecutive versions, especially as it qualified for the semi-finals in 1992 , 1996, while his third appearance in the last edition of 2015 in Australia, before repeating its success in 2019 in the UAE.

The second is that the UAE is the first team to outperform the champions in two successive editions of the quarter-finals, after winning the "white" on the champion of the 2011 edition, Japan, in the quarter-finals in 2015, penalty shootout after the draw of the two teams for each goal, Has been the "nightmare" for any team to win the Asian Cup, beating the champion of the 2015 edition of Australia, the day before yesterday with a goal of no response, and ended the dreams of the "Kangaroo" in defending the title.

For his part, national striker Ali Mabkhout continued to record the record with his ninth goal in the history of his participation in the Asian Cup. He became the historic scorer for the Arab players in the continental championship, ahead of Kuwaiti Jassim Al-Huwaidi and Iraqi Younis Mahmoud, The third place in the history of the Asian Cup's goalscorers, Bakhots are evenly divided with Japanese Takahara, behind Iranian Ali Daei 14 and South Korean Lee Dong Guk 10 goals.

On the other hand, the national team maintained a clean sheet for the second time in the current version, after beating India with two goals without a response, the first time that the goal of «White» goals in two games in one copy of the continental championship, since the best number achieved by the team The 1996 version, not to concede goals in four games when he beat Indonesia with two goals without a response, and Iraq and Kuwait with the same result (goal without a response), and the draw with Saudi Arabia without goals.

In the national team and Australia, the game was not limited to the absence of UAE victories, but the White needed 518 minutes to score the first goal in the goal of the Kangaroo, when Ali Mabkhout scored the winner in the 68th minute after the previous five encounters , While they won the first two friendly games in 2011 and 2014 without goals, while Australia won the first official match in the semi-finals of the AFC Asian Cup 2015 with two goals unanswered, and in the third phase of the 2018 World Cup qualifiers, Australia continued to win in the first round without a reply, Reply.

The 5 historical figures

1 - UAE qualified for the first time to the semi-finals twice in a row.

2 - The first team to outperform the defending champion in two successive versions.

3 - Ali Mbkhot is the top scorer of Arab players in the history of the Asian Cup.

4 - The team kept a clean sheet twice in one copy for the first time since 1996.

5 - Ali Mabkhout scored the first goal of the UAE in its history by Australia.