Day 2 [AFC Asian Cup 2019] - Date, Time, & Live Updates

[DR Strangemoosh]

I think there are going to be a lot of "shocks" in this 24-team tournament as traditionally mid-tier and higher-tier Asian sides underestimate the improvements made in the traditionally smaller sides

India's fifa ranking:

2014: 171
2015: 166
2016: 135
2017: 105
2018: 97

[Philosophy_King]

Can someone tell me were all this india hype is coming from? German Bundesliga players which them best luck,
indian people become very intrested in football and believe their team can win the asiancup, now here in this
forum everyone is cheerin for them, everyone is speaking about Sunil Chetri. Did i miss something?

[Iran_19]

Thailand used to even become as 2nd rated team in Asia in early 2000 and caused TM some issues sometime. Specially at their home due to high humidity. This Thailand team really sucks. Football is changing and the gap between teams is not that much.

[Azeem98]

Can someone tell me were all this india hype is coming from? German Bundesliga players which them best luck,
indian people become very intrested in football and believe their team can win the asiancup, now here in this
forum everyone is cheerin for them, everyone is speaking about Sunil Chetri. Did i miss something?

Bro anyone who cares about some sport likes to see that sport grow.

[Leicester City]

Can someone tell me were all this india hype is coming from? German Bundesliga players which them best luck,
indian people become very intrested in football and believe their team can win the asiancup, now here in this
forum everyone is cheerin for them, everyone is speaking about Sunil Chetri. Did i miss something?

Yeah, same here!

[Azeem98]

Thailand used to even become as 2nd rated team in Asia in 2000 and caused TM some issues sometime. Specially at their home due to high humidity. This Thailand team really sucks. Football is changing and the gap between teams is not that much.

Under Rajevac the way Thailand played was very different from their WC qualifying campaign and people weren't happy with his approach. Surely he will be out after this

[Philosophy_King]

Bro anyone who cares about some sport likes to see that sport grow.

True but where comes this india hype from? I mean there are also other so called underdogs that are rising.
Vietnam f.e. won the southasian championship, Syria had a decent performance last WCQ, Iraq won 2017 AC
and there was not hype like that around.

[perspolis#1]

Can someone tell me were all this india hype is coming from? German Bundesliga players which them best luck,
indian people become very intrested in football and believe their team can win the asiancup, now here in this
forum everyone is cheerin for them, everyone is speaking about Sunil Chetri. Did i miss something?

The Sunil Chetri stuff is a joke.

A lot of people mess around in FIFA and since India has a 1/2 star rating its fun to play as them versus teams like Germany/Brazil.

The rest is because India has a billion people and the sport needs to grow there.

[DR Strangemoosh]

Can someone tell me were all this india hype is coming from? German Bundesliga players which them best luck,
indian people become very intrested in football and believe their team can win the asiancup, now here in this
forum everyone is cheerin for them, everyone is speaking about Sunil Chetri. Did i miss something?

Dude I haven't followed any hype this is just my own feeling, why are you getting antsy about this?

1) I really hope either/both UAE and Bahrain don't qualify from this group, I mean do you support them over Thailand and India?
2) I've slowly seen India's football infrastructure improve and so was predicting them to cause a few upsets at some point. It's healthy for all of asian football if smaller teams improve, I'd feel the same if other teams did this
3) Football is very big in certain specific parts of India so I guess its good for them to get their team do well
4) Especially in britain, a lot of us have friends who are of subcontinental origin if we work in fields like medicine, engineering, finance etc... so its cool to be able to talk to them. One of my friends is from the same city as Chetri so its cool to tell him that he is now the second biggest international goalscorer below Ronaldo. He did the same to me when Daei was top scorer evne though he doesnt like football.

[Azeem98]

True but where comes this india hype from? I mean there are also other so called underdogs that are rising.
Vietnam f.e. won the southasian championship, Syria had a decent performance last WCQ, Iraq won 2017 AC
and there was not hype like that around.

India is a bigger market than the ones mentioned so expect that hype

[DR Strangemoosh]

True but where comes this india hype from? I mean there are also other so called underdogs that are rising.
Vietnam f.e. won the southasian championship, Syria had a decent performance last WCQ, Iraq won 2017 AC
and there was not hype like that around.

India is traditionally MUCH smaller than Iraq you can't compare them.

As for the other two, how do you know we wouldn't "hype" them? They aren't playing now so there's nothing to talk about. India literally just finished their game so that's why we are talking about them. When Vietnam plays (apart from against us) then I'll be really keen to see if they can do something the way India just did now.

Odd thing to get concerned about bro

[Philosophy_King]

Dude I haven't followed any hype this is just my own feeling, why are you getting antsy about this?

1) I really hope either/both UAE and Bahrain don't qualify from this group, I mean do you support them over Thailand and India?
2) I've slowly seen India's football infrastructure improve and so was predicting them to cause a few upsets at some point. It's healthy for all of asian football if smaller teams improve, I'd feel the same if other teams did this
3) Football is very big in certain specific parts of India so I guess its good for them to get their team do well
4) Especially in britain, a lot of us have friends who are of subcontinental origin if we work in fields like medicine, engineering, finance etc... so its cool to be able to talk to them. One of my friends is from the same city as Chetri so its cool to tell him that he is now the second biggest international goalscorer below Ronaldo. He did the same to me when Daei was top scorer evne though he doesnt like football.

First of all, why do you think i was referring to your comments? It was a general impression that i have.

And than you make all these conclusions for 1 to 4; were did i say that i dont want them to succed? Or that i want Bahrain and UAE to
progress?

Keep cool dude.

[Philosophy_King]

India is traditionally MUCH smaller than Iraq you can't compare them.

As for the other two, how do you know we wouldn't "hype" them? They aren't playing now so there's nothing to talk about. India literally just finished their game so that's why we are talking about them. When Vietnam plays (apart from against us) then I'll be really keen to see if they can do something the way India just did now.

Odd thing to get concerned about bro

-Iraq, Syria peformed amazing considering that there was war in their country.
- The Indie Hype was even before the Tournament start.
- I didnt notice any Haye for Vietnam comperable to India.

[Philosophy_King]

India is a bigger market than the ones mentioned so expect that hype

That sounds reasonable.

[teammelli91]

Congratulations to Jordan on the win over the Aussies. I kind of feel for Ryan but not really lol.