To be fair, Asia actually tends to do surprisingly well in global soccer tournaments. In this case, they only lost once and to the 2nd ranked team in the world (probably 1st now).

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To be fair, Asia actually tends to do surprisingly well in global soccer tournaments. In this case, they only lost once and to the 2nd ranked team in the world (probably 1st now).

Tell that to the 2014 World Cup where all Asian teams combined won a grand total of zero games in the group rounds, including Australia.

Surprisingly well in that case means that it's surprising they qualified.