How was Uzbekistan's chance of qualifying for the World Championship assessed?
The Uzbekistan national team has a very good chance to qualify for the most prestigious tournament in the football world – the World Cup for the first time in its history it has been noted.
The tournament, hosted by the USA, Canada, and Mexico, sees our compatriots currently in second place in the third stage of the qualifying tournament. According to the rules, the top two teams among the six national teams in this stage will directly qualify for the World Cup.
CSKA player Abbosbek Fayzullayev assessed the chances of our national team qualifying for the World Cup.
- The Uzbekistan national team has a very good chance to qualify for the World Cup. There are four games left in the decisive stage of the qualifiers: two away and two at home.
The team is organized, all the guys are good. There is a balance of youth and experienced players in the squad. This gives the team even more strength, as the experienced players always provide advice and support to us young ones. This is a significant plus for us.
We young players learn a lot from the older ones. Even though Abduqodir Husanov is playing for Manchester City and I am playing for CSKA, there are things we learn from the older players. Because we are young, we need to learn many things.
May we qualify for the World Cup and fulfill the dreams of our people, - said Abbosbek Fayzullayev.
Indeed, the Uzbekistan national team is competing against five national teams in the first group of the regional qualifying tournament for the World Cup.
So far, our compatriots have defeated North Korea twice with the same score of 1:0, Kyrgyzstan 3:2, and the United Arab Emirates 1:0, while drawing goalless with Iran in Tashkent, and only lost once away to Qatar with a score of 2:3. Our players have accumulated a total of 13 points and are currently in second place in the group.
Now the Uzbekistan national team must participate in four more matches under the new head coach Timur Kapadze.
Specifically, our compatriots will play the first of the remaining matches against the Kyrgyz national team in Tashkent on March 20, and five days later, they will face group leader Iran in Tehran.
The last two matches are scheduled for June. In those, on June 5, our national team will play in the United Arab Emirates. This stage of the qualifying tournament will conclude with a match against Qatar in our capital on June 10.
