Qatar triumphs over India 3-0 for the second time in a row.

Asian winners In the Group A match of the Preliminary Joint Qualification – Round 2 for the FIFA World Cup 2026 and AFC Asian Cup Saudi Arabia 2027, Qatar easily defeated India, 3-0, at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar yesterday.
With their second straight victory, Qatar maintained their winning streak and widened their lead in the group to three points. In their first game, Carlo Queiroz’s team easily defeated Afghanistan 8-1, and last week, India emerged from Kuwait with a crucial three points after defeating them 1-0. Along with the first loss in the vital qualifiers, the defeat marked India’s first home international loss of 2023.
Qatar, which was ranked 61st in the men’s team rankings, was dominant in all.

The first goal for Qatar came from a corner following a subpar clearance by Udanta Singh at the outside edge of the box. In the fourth minute, Mustafa Mashal gave his team the lead by hammering his effort past the Indian defense. Within the first two minutes, Qatar squandered a fantastic chance when Akram Afif was discovered alone and six yards out. He was unable to convert, though, and India survived the match’s first meaningful opportunity.
As they attempted to add to their ten goals scored against both Afghanistan and India, Qatar’s dominance persisted as they converted ten corners in an hour.
Naroem Singh had the best opportunity of the game for India when Suresh Wangjam independently found him through the middle, but the replacement.

The visitors kept up the attack, even getting a free header from Meshaal, the goal scorer, but they were unable to increase their lead before halftime.
Minutes before halftime, India’s best and only opportunity of the half came when centre-back Boulalem Khoukhi of Qatari football mishandled the ball close to his own area, only for Anirirudh Thapa to miss.
Similar to the first half, Qatar was merciless right away. Within sixty seconds of the restart, Almoez Ali had doubled Qatar’s lead. Afif’s shot had fallen to the striker, who had steered the ball home for his fifth goal of the qualifiers, less than a yard out.
Ali nearly scored Qatar’s third goal of the game and his second of the game when he.

In the last few minutes of the game, Qatar managed to score their third.
Mohamed Waad crossed the ball in from the left, and Yusuf Abdurisag was able to direct his header into the net’s roof.
In Group A, Qatar hosts Kuwait, and India will play Afghanistan away from home in the New Year.
Israelis fly the flag during a poignant World Cup qualifying match.
In Kuwait’s Jaber Al Ahmad International Stadium, Palestinian flags and the black-and-white keffiyeh scarf were flying high as football fans let out their frustrations during yesterday’s World Cup qualifier. The game against Australia was Palestine’s first in front of fans since the beginning of the campaign, and thousands of Palestinians and supporters filled the 60,000-seat arena.

“We have compassion for Palestine. We came to the stadium, young and old, to show our support,” 45-year-old Kuwaiti woman Anfal al-Azmi told AFP.
In a 1-0 victory for Australia, defender Harry Souttar’s goal in the eighteenth minute was all that separated the two teams. The play on the field was essentially incidental.
It happened roughly six weeks after an attack on October 7 by Palestinian Hamas militants, according to Israeli officials, resulted in the deaths of 1,200 people and the kidnapping of about 240 hostages.
“We’re not interested in the game. We came to deliver a message,” stated Ashkelon-born Palestinian Wael Youssef Labbad, 40.
“With the keffiyeh and the flag, we, the Palestinian people, are always present.”
The red, black, white, and green flag of Palestine was flown everywhere at

Others displayed banners that read “Free Gaza” and pictures of keys, which stand in for the homes that the Palestinian people lost when Israel was founded in 1948.
The players from Australia will contribute a portion of their match fee to aid efforts in Gaza, whose circumstances, according to visiting coach Graham Arnold, are “horrific.” Many of the fans came from other communities in the oil-rich Gulf nation; not all of them were Palestinian.
Palestine and Kuwait are one. The 36-year-old Kuwaiti Ahmed al-Anezi, who was dressed in a keffiyeh and the Palestinian flag, declared, “Today we are guests of Palestine in their land.”
“My whole family and I came here today to support the Palestinian people and instill the first Arab cause in my children’s hearts.”
A Syrian undergraduate.