Soccer Football - AFC Asian Cup - Iran v Iraq - Group D - Al-Maktoum Stadium, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - January 16, 2019 Iraq's Ahmed Ibrahim in action REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani
ABU DHABI (Reuters) - With the big powers all having negotiated the expanded Asian Cup group stage safely enough, the tournament gets going in earnest on Sunday with the first of the sudden-death round of 16 ties.
First of the former champions out of the blocks are Iran, who take on Oman at the Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi for the right to play China or Thailand in the last eight.
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