UEA pun berhak lolos ke babak delapan besar setelah memenangi duel adu penalti.

Namun, lawan Zayed dan Safawi untuk mendapat titel pemain muda terbaik Asia tidaklah muda.

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Terdapat beberapa pemain-pemain muda Asia yang mentas di Liga Eropa seperti Musa Al Taamari, Lee Kang-in, hingga Takefusa Kubo.

Berikut nominasi 20 pemain muda terbaik Asia versi AFC:

1. Won Du-jae (23,Ulsan Hyundai/Korea)
2. Bobir Abdikholilov (23. FC Nasaf/Uzbekistan)
3. Kaoru Mitoma (22, Kawasaki Frontale/JPN)
4. Abdullah Al Hamdan (22, Al Shabab/KSA)
5. Takehiro Tomiyasu (22, Bologna/JPN)
6. Mehdi Ghayedi (22, Esteghlal/IRN)
7. Mohanad Ali (20, Portimonense, Al Sailiya/IRQ)
8. Takefusa Kubo (19, Mallorca, Villareal CF/JPN)
9. Musa Al Taamari (23, APOEL, OH Leuven/JOR)
10. Jaroensak Wonggorn (23, Samut Prakan City/THA)
11. Mohammed Waad (21, Al Wakrah, Al Sadd/QAT)
12. Riley McGree (22, Adelaide United, Birmingham City/AUS)
13. Azizjon Ganiev (22, Shabab Al Ahli Dubai/UZB)
14. Mehdi Abdi (22, Persepolis FC/IRN)
15. Abdulrahman Ghareeb (23, Al Ahli/KSA)
16. Lee Kang-in (19, Valencia/KOR)
17. Safawi Rasid (23, Johor Darul Ta’zim, Portimonense/MAS)
18. Song Min-kyu (21, Pohang Steelers/KOR)
19. Zayed Al Ameri (23, Al Jazira/UAE)
20. Jasur Yakhshiboev (23, Enegertik-BGU, Shakhtyor Soligorsk/UZB)