All eyes will be on the Asian teams today, Tuesday, as they compete in the fourth round of the third stage of the World Cup qualifiers, scheduled for the United States, Canada and Mexico 2026.
The Kuwaiti team will meet its Palestinian counterpart at Jassim bin Hamad Stadium in Doha in a confrontation in which both teams raise the slogan of compensation after losing in the last round.
The Kuwaiti team, accompanied by its Argentine coach, Juan Antonio Pizzi, is seeking to obtain the three points and reach the fifth point, which will preserve the team’s hopes of ascending to the World Cup, and achieve the dream of a second appearance after it experienced it in the 1982 World Cup in Spain.
For his part, Akram Daboub, coach of the Palestinian national team, will be required to achieve a positive result after his defeat in the previous two rounds, as he settled for a goalless draw against his host, South Korea.
The Uzbek national team must maintain its top spot in the group when it hosts its Emirati counterpart in the capital, Tashkent.
The Iraqi team, the runner-up in the group, will face off against its host, South Korea, which is at the top of the matches, in a promising summit whose outcome will determine who will come out on top.
The third-ranked Jordanian team faces a difficult test at home, when it hosts its Omani counterpart, coming off a huge victory over Kuwait in the last round.
The Omani team has 3 points, and its victory over its Jordanian counterpart will help it re-enter the direct qualification calculations, regardless of the outcome of the confrontation between Iraq and South Korea.
In the third group, the Saudi team, which has 4 points to its credit, is looking to cling to the chances of direct qualification for the 2026 World Cup, when it hosts its Bahraini counterpart.
As for the Japanese team, which leads the group with a full score of “9 points,” it will host its Australian counterpart in a summit match.
