Jordan is the 16th country to reach the semi-finals of the Asian Cup and the first new team at this stage after Australia and Uzbekistan, who reached in 2011 (Getty)

The supercomputer, affiliated with Opta, a statistics company, predicted that the South Korean national team would be the closest to qualifying for the 2023 Asian Cup final, as it achieved a success rate of approximately 60% of the pre-match simulations within 90 minutes, compared to 21.7% for Jordan.

According to the computer, “Taeguk Warriors” won 55.9% of 10,000 pre-match simulations within 90 minutes, while “Nashma” won slightly more than 1 in 5 pre-match simulations (21.7%), which is the team that turned from The favorites to advance to the group stage are the top 4 teams in Asia.

This will be the third meeting between Jordan and South Korea in the Asian Cup, as the previous two confrontations between them ended in a draw, including a 2-2 draw in the group stage of this continental tournament held in Qatar until next Saturday.

This is the fourth edition of the Asian Cup, in which South Korea faced the same opponent twice in one edition of the tournament.

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Two of the three defeats were in the final match (1980 against Kuwait and 2015 against Australia), while the other loss was in the third place match against China in 2000.

Jordan became the 16th country to reach the semi-finals of the Asian Cup, and the first new team at this stage since Australia and Uzbekistan, which did so in 2011.

Neither of these two countries was able to win the tournament, although Australia reached the final in 2011, losing to Japan in the edition held in Doha.

South Korea returned the result in 4 of its five matches played in the continental tournament so far.

South Korea snatches an equalizer from Jordan in a deadly time

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As for Jordan, it won 3 matches in one edition of the Asian Cup for the first time in its history, and the team also scored 10 goals in one edition of the tournament for the first time, that is, one more goal than it scored in the previous two editions combined.

Son Heung-min has scored 7 goals in the Asian Cup since his first appearance in the 2011 edition. The two players who scored the most in this period are: Almoez Ali, Qatar national team player (10 goals) and Emirati Ali Mabkhout (9). The English Tottenham captain - who has played every minute of his country's matches in the tournament so far, as he was on the field for 601 minutes, including all the extra time during the team's five matches - has played the largest number of players in this tournament, 17 matches in the continental finals, which is the number Standard for the “Samson” team.

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