In the match between the national teams of Turkmenistan and the Chinese Taipei in Balkanabat, one of 24 teams to take part in the competition for the Football Cup of the Asian continent was determined. That was the team of Turkmenistan! On the eve of the penultimate game in the competition to reach the final of the Asian Cup-2019 to take place in the United Arab Emirates, the Turkmen team shared first and second places in a group with the team of Bahrain, being ahead of today’s opponents by one point. In order to secure its further place in the 17th Asian Cup, the Turkmen team needed a victory. Our opponent, lagging behind the total number of points, made an attempt from the very beginning to seize the initiative to score a “quick” goal in order to secure a margin of safety. However, the attacks of the initial attacks of the team opposing Turkmenistan have been successfully rebuffed time after time, transferring the play to the other half of the field. And the result did not take long. On the 22nd minute, the national team of Turkmenistan was brought forward by Murad Yagshiyev. In turn, that gave a good incentive for further pressure throughout the field, and increased pressure on the opponent’s goal. After several more quick attacks, our team at the end of the 40th minute increased the gap thanks to the goal scored by Altynmurad Annadurdiyev. By the way, both players who scored goals to the Taipei goalkeeper are representatives of the capital’s club “Altyn Asyr”. In the second half of the match our team continued to attack, but by the half time the rival, realizing that the defeat deprives them of all chances to get into the main football tournament of Asia, did their best to reach the goal of the Turkmen team. To the credit of our players, the defense skillfully coped with the pressure throughout the game, but at the very end of the match, when the stopwatch of the referee counted the last minutes, the opponents earned a penalty, which was realized by Chen Po Liyang. But the Turkmen team did not allow the competitors to achieve their goal any more. The match resulted in the victory of our team with a score 2:1, and the deserved right to participate in the final part of the Asian Cup-2019. Ahead of the team of Turkmenistan is the final match with the team of Bahrain for the first place in the group.