Has Qatar driven after objectives from Jassem Gaber and Akram Afif counteracted Sardar Azmoun's amazing above opener. A disputable punishment choice aided level the scores, however Ali's 82nd-minute strike and Shoja Khalilzadeh's late red card were lethal to Iran's last expectations.
Qatar will play longshots Jordan in Saturday's last at Lusail Arena. Jordan dazed double cross champs South Korea on Tuesday to arrive at their most memorable Asian Cup last. Qatar are offering to turn into the main group since Japan in 2000 and 2004 to win consecutive Asian Cup titles.
Iran's semi-last got off to the ideal beginning when Azmoun jumped gymnastically to fire home a hair-raising above kick after Qatar neglected to clear a long toss into their crate. Al Thumama Arena ejected 13 minutes after the fact, be that as it may, as Gaber's strike took a gigantic diversion off Saeid Ezatolahi and circled over goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand.
The balancer caused clamor from the Iranian seat, who thought Mehdi Taremi had been fouled in the contrary box seconds sooner, and Mehdi Torabi was reserved for requesting a punishment from the touchline. Having squandered a straightforward open door prior in the initial half, Afif vindicated himself when he slice through Iran's protection prior to mesh his fifth objective of the competition to take him inside one of Iraq's Aymen Hussein - the Brilliant Boot pioneer.
Iran were given a help from the get-go in the last part when the video right hand ref mediated to suggest a survey of a punishment choice. In spite of at first waving away allures of a handball and Ahmed Fathy keeping his arms hidden from plain view, the ref altered his perspective and Alireza Jahanbakhsh tranquilly opened the spot-kick straight down the center.
Goalline clearances at the two closures of the pitch kept the strained experience level until Ali chose the base corner with under 10 minutes of ordinary time remaining.
Iran's expectations of arriving at their most memorable last beginning around 1976 went from terrible to more regrettable when Shoja Khalilzadeh's yellow card for clearing out Afif was moved up to a red after a VAR mediation. Subsequent to holding off a progression of promising last-heave assaults, the Qatar players dropped to their knees in festival when the ref blew the full-time whistle following over 16 minutes of stoppage time.