FACTBOX-Soccer-United Arab Emirates v Qatar - Asian Cup semi-final
Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi (capacity: 40,000) Kickoff 6.00pm local time (1400 GMT)
MATCH OFFICIALS Referee: Cesar Ramos (Mexico)
Assistant referees: Miguel Hernandez, Alberto Morin (both Mexico) Fourth Official: Ravshan Irmatov (Uzbekistan)
Video assistant referee: Paolo Valeri (Italy) UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
FIFA world ranking: 79 Ranking in Asia: 8
Previous Asian Cups: 9 Best performance: Runners-up (1996)
2015: Third place Nickname: The Whites
Coach: Alberto Zaccheroni Top scorer at 2019 Asian Cup: Ali Mabkhout (4)
Players suspended: None ROAD TO THE SEMI-FINAL
Group A (First) UAE 1-1 Bahrain
UAE 2-0 India UAE 1-1 Thailand
Round of 16 UAE 3-2 Kyrgyzstan (AET)
Quarter-final UAE 1-0 Australia
QATAR FIFA world ranking: 93
Ranking in Asia: 13 Previous Asian Cups: 9
Best performance: Quarter-finals (2000, 2011) 2015: Group stage
Nickname: The Maroons Coach: Felix Sanchez Bas
Top scorer at 2019 Asian Cup: Almoez Ali (7) Players suspended: Abdulaziz Hatem, Bassam Al-Rawi
ROAD TO THE SEMI-FINAL Group E (First)
Qatar 2-0 Lebanon Qatar 6-0 North Korea
Qatar 2-0 Saudi Arabia Round of 16
Qatar 1-0 Iraq Quarter-final
Qatar 1-0 South Korea (Compiled by Nick Mulvenney, editing by Amlan Chakraborty)
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