Anyone still following the AFC qualifiers? So far 6 teams have qualified from this confederation: Iran, Uzbekistan, South Korea, Jordan, Japan and Australia. Two more teams will qualify from the fourth round, while one additional team will gain entry to the Inter-confederation play-offs. 6 teams have progressed to the fourth round. They are United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Iraq, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia. IMO, out of these six teams, the ones with brightest chances are Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
I'm seeing some slightly unfavorable news for Iran because there are some things that could disqualify them due to geopolitical issues and hopefully that doesn't actually come true.
For round 4 I'm still waiting for this because I'm from Indonesia and my country is still there, of course this gives a good condition and interest because this is our best achievement so far.
I'm aware that maybe my country won't have much to say even if it qualifies but of course when it gets to this stage then there's obviously a hope for my country which is still struggling to get a much better result because after all this is a good progress regardless of the slanted rumors or bad stigma about my country making naturalization a reference but I'm happy with this condition.