17-year CAFA football tournament; Afghanistan climbed to the second place, will this team become the champion?

The 17-year Central Asia Football Championship (CAFA) was followed up today by holding two matches. Tajikistan defeated Uzbekistan 0-2 and Iran crushed Kyrgyzstan 7-0. With these results and Uzbekistan's first defeat, the Afghan team climbed to the second place in the standings.

With the results obtained today, Tajikistan, the host of the tournament, was at the top of the ranking table with three victories and nine points. Uzbekistan, which had not lost until now, experienced its first loss and fell to the third place with six points, and Afghanistan climbed to the second place with six points and a better goal difference.

Kyrgyzstan will not play in the last day's games that will be held on Sunday; Because this team has played four games and lost all its matches and is at the bottom of the table without points.

Iran, which now has three points from three games, is out of the championship equation and second place. The fate of the championship is between the teams of Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, although the chances of Tajikistan are more than other teams.

On the last day, Afghanistan will play Uzbekistan and Tajikistan will play against Iran. Afghanistan will be the champion in this tournament if it defeats Uzbekistan by more than two goals and Tajikistan receives five goals from Iran.

Tajikistan with 9 points and a positive goal difference of 7 is the first chance for the championship, and the teams of Afghanistan and Uzbekistan are both six points.

Uzbekistan must beat Afghanistan to win the runner-up position, and this will make it difficult for the Afghan national team.