Asian Cup debutants Tajikistan booked their place in the quarter-finals with a dramatic 5-3 penalty shootout win over the United Arab Emirates after a 1-1 draw on Sunday. Alisher Shukurov buried the final spot-kick in Doha to send the Central Asians - ranked 106th in the world - into a showdown with either Jordan or the 2007 champions Iraq. Tajikistan goalkeeper Rustam Yatimov saved from Caio Canedo with the UAE's second penalty of the shootout. Tajikistan looked set for a famous victory when Vakhdat Khanonov scored with a 30th-minute header, only for Khalifa Al-Hammadi to equalise in the 95th minute and send the game into extra-time. The UAE reached the semi-finals
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