World Asia preview report: Lucas's last shot was disallowed, UAE 1-1 Iraq

6686 Sports News on November 14th In the first round of the fifth stage of the 2026 World Asian Preliminaries, the UAE faced Iraq. In the 10th minute, Zubaidi scored with a sweep in front of the goal. In the 18th minute, Ramadan assisted Luan and scored, helping the UAE equalize the score 1-1. Subsequently, the two teams exchanged offense and defense. The UAE goalkeeper Issa made great saves many times, and the score on the field has never been changed. In the 6th minute of stoppage time, Jimenez took a free kick and assisted Lucas in scoring, but it was ruled invalid due to offside. In the end, the UAE drew 1-1 with Iraq.

Key events

5'Ali shot from outside the three-second area, but the ball was blocked by Nader with his body blocked

30’ meritorious service! Zubaidi faced Issa alone and was pushed from the far corner to the near corner

37' Adil volleyed hard from a small angle in the three-second zone, and the ball hit the side net

45' Issa once again made a great save, flying to block Ali's close-range header

55' Fajji ejected from the instep, Isa kept the ball away

86' Said passed the ball into the penalty area, Zuhir jumped to clear the ball

Technical Statistics

Player list

UAE starting lineup: 17-Issa, 2-Amaral, 5-Zuhir, 16-Meloni (85’13-Rabi), 3-Pimenta, 14-Jimenez, 20-Luan (64’7-Salih), 6-Ramadan (64’21-Bruno) , 15-Nader, 23-Adil (89’11-Canedo), 9-Suhail (46’10-Lucas)

UAE reserve lineup: 1-Husani, 22-McKaybally, 19-Ebrahim, 4-Ottern, 13-Rabi, 12-Alvarez, 18-Almerzi, 10-Lucas, 11-Canedo, 7- Saleh, 21-Bruno, 8-Aconno

Iraq starting lineup: 12-Hassan, 3-Ali, 23-Dorski, 4-Tahsin, 5-Rahman, 16-Al Amari, 21-Fajhi (90’15-Yahya), 8-Shel (79’14-Iqbal), 17-Jassim (72’11-Saeed), 10-Ali (79’7-Karim), 9-Zubaidi (46’18-Hussain)

Iraqi reserve lineup: 1-Talib, 22-Bashir, 6-Younis, 15-Yahya, 2-Sadoun, 20-Rashid, 13-Ali, 14-Iqbal, 19-Yakub, 11-Sayed, 18-Hussain, 7-Karim