Congratulations to Iran, South Korea, and Australia who qualified yesterday. In group A, the match between South Korea and Iran was goalless for long time, and when Qatar scored against Uzbekistan the outcome seemed clear. With half an hour to go Uzbekistan suddenly started to score against 2022 hosts Qatar. Equalizer became 1-2, which became 1-3, and with two goals in last five they turned around the result to a four goal win. That was exactly the result needed if it had been a draw in South Korea. Unfortunately, for Uzbekistan, Iran had scored a winner in 60th minute, which secured the qualification for them, and South Korea had the second place on better goal difference (+6 vs +5).

In group B, the Australia started the evening playing against Iraq. A win would secure the ticket to Brazil, whereas a draw or loss the outcome would depend on the result in Amman later on. With the rain bucketing down at Olympic Stadion in Sydney and so much in the game, the match became quite nervy, but in 82nd minuted sub Kennedy headed in the winner. With that result the game in Amman between Jordan and Oman became a head-on-head match in which Oman needed a draw to secure a spot in the playoff. In 57th minute Hayel scored the only goal, which knocked out Oman and gave Jordan a spot in the playoff where they will play against Uzbekistan. The winner of the playoff will play the fifth place in South America (currently Uruguay).

In North America, USA and Costa Rica won against Honduras and Panama, respectively.

Other note is that in Africa, Ethiopia admit they've played with ineligible player. Quite likely they will at least lose the three point from last week, but the case is still under investigation and the table below is based on current result.

Country	Qualify	June-01	Jan-01	Champ	Jun-01	Jan-01
Brazil	100	+0.0	+0.0	25.6	+0.0	-0.1
Japan	100	+0.0	+0.0	0.38	+0.0	+0.0
South Korea	100	+1.8	+2.6	0.25	+0.0	+0.0
Australia	100	+21.4	+9.6	0.14	+0.0	+0.0
Iran	100	+58.5	+55.1	0.015	+0.0	+0.0
Argentina	99.9999	+0.0	+0.0	8	+0.0	+0.0
Netherlands	99.991	+0.0	+0.6	4.8	+0.0	+0.0
Germany	99.88	+0.6	+1.4	13.1	+0.1	+0.1
Colombia	99.64	+0.2	+0.2	1.43	+0.0	+0.0
Spain	99.56	-0.0	+0.3	30.1	+0.0	+0.2
United States	99.34	+14.9	+16.8	0.09	+0.0	+0.0
Russia	98.41	-0.6	+0.8	1.27	-0.0	-0.0
Italy	98.02	+2.6	+3.3	1.86	+0.0	+0.1
Switzerland	98	+3.2	+5.5	0.24	-0.0	+0.0
Ecuador	97.37	-1.4	+0.6	0.61	+0.0	+0.0
Mexico	96.89	-0.0	-2.3	2.25	-0.0	-0.1
England	93.6	+0.4	-2.7	4.5	+0.0	-0.1
Chile	93.5	+17.1	+22.4	0.28	+0.1	+0.1
Ivory Coast	89.7	+1.4	+4.8	0.66	-0.0	+0.0
Costa Rica	88.5	+40.9	+44.6	0.008	+0.0	+0.0
Egypt	77.9	+3.4	+6.3	0.025	+0.0	+0.0
Portugal	76.8	+3.2	+0.3	2.01	+0.0	-0.0
Croatia	76.6	-12.1	-4.7	0.71	-0.1	-0.1
Bosnia and Herzegov	75.4	+5.3	+27.3	0.033	+0.0	+0.0
Belgium	70.6	+20.0	+25.9	0.1	+0.0	+0.0
France	68.3	-0.2	-1.4	0.48	+0.0	-0.0
Greece	67.5	-0.2	-14.2	0.15	+0.0	-0.0
Tunisia	64.7	+8.1	+9.0	0.001	+0.0	+0.0
Nigeria	62.4	+10.6	+2.7	0.002	-0.0	+0.0
Ghana	60.1	+21.4	+35.5	0.008	+0.0	+0.0
Sweden	50.2	-15.3	-16.3	0.52	-0.2	-0.2
Honduras	48.8	-8.0	-2.5	0.006	-0.0	+0.0
Uruguay	42.9	+13.2	-16.6	0.22	+0.1	-0.1
New Zealand	35.9	-0.5	+0.1	0.001	+0.0	+0.0
Algeria	34.3	+17.7	+17.9	0.0002	+0.0	+0.0
Ukraine	28.1	+16.8	+23.8	0.013	+0.0	+0.0
Panama	27.8	-28.1	-25.4	0.004	-0.0	-0.0
Venezuela	26.3	-28.8	-11.2	0.013	-0.0	-0.0
Cameroon	25.3	+2.4	+7.7	0.0003	-0.0	-0.0
Romania	24.6	+0.2	-2.0	0.028	+0.0	-0.0
Senegal	21.2	+3.9	+4.5	0	+0.0	+0.0
Czechia	18.1	+4.6	-6.1	0.026	+0.0	-0.0
Peru	16.2	+7.4	+11.1	0.006	+0.0	+0.0
Uzbekistan	13.8	-60.8	-56.1	0.0003	-0.0	-0.0
Norway	12.8	-6.6	-19.4	0.005	-0.0	-0.0
Burkina Faso	12.6	+7.7	+10.3	0	+0.0	+0.0
Zambia	12.1	-13.3	-23.9	0	-0.0	-0.0
Ethiopia	11.8	+8.1	+8.6	0	+0.0	+0.0
Libya	11.6	-1.0	-4.7	0	+0.0	-0.0
Jordan	10.1	-7.9	+5.7	0.0001	+0.0	+0.0
Gabon	8.4	-1.7	-9.8	0	+0.0	-0.0
Bulgaria	8.4	+3.3	+6.0	0.0003	-0.0	+0.0
Ireland	7	+3.4	+2.1	0.003	+0.0	+0.0
Uganda	6.8	+2.8	-1.1	0	+0.0	+0.0
Hungary	6.5	+0.1	+0.1	0.001	+0.0	+0.0
Serbia	5.4	-1.5	-4.7	0.0003	-0.0	-0.0
Montenegro	5.3	-12.6	-5.6	0.0003	-0.0	-0.0
Poland	3.08	-2.4	-7.9	0.0004	-0.0	-0.0
Jamaica	2.78	-19.2	-30.7	0.0001	-0.0	-0.0
Austria	1.74	+1.4	+1.6	0	+0.0	+0.0
Malawi	1.24	-1.5	+0.4	0	+0.0	+0.0
Israel	1.12	-0.7	-0.1	0	+0.0	+0.0
Albania	1.03	-0.1	+0.9	0	+0.0	+0.0
Denmark	0.87	-10.9	-11.1	0.001	-0.0	-0.0
Iceland	0.87	-1.4	+0.5	0	+0.0	+0.0
Slovenia	0.76	+0.5	-0.2	0	+0.0	+0.0
Turkey	0.62	+0.0	-0.1	0.0004	-0.0	+0.0
Scotland	0.39	+0.3	-1.2	0	+0.0	-0.0
Finland	0.28	-0.0	+0.1	0	+0.0	+0.0
Slovakia	0.15	-0.8	-2.4	0	-0.0	+0.0
Congo	0.06	-4.2	-2.1	0	+0.0	+0.0
Wales	0.06	+0.0	-0.0	0	+0.0	+0.0
Paraguay	0.037	-0.6	-1.9	0	-0.0	-0.0
Armenia	0.019	+0.0	-0.0	0	+0.0	+0.0
Bolivia	0.013	-0.5	-0.7	0	-0.0	+0.0
Lithuania	0.013	-0.1	-0.1	0	+0.0	+0.0
Cyprus	0.004	-0.0	-0.0	0	+0.0	+0.0
New Caledonia	0.004	+0.0	-0.5	0	+0.0	+0.0
Macedonia	0.002	+0.0	-0.1	0	+0.0	+0.0
Latvia	0.001	-0.0	-0.1	0	+0.0	+0.0
Estonia	0.0004	-0.0	-0.0	0	+0.0	+0.0