The groups for the preliminiary round two of the joint 2022 World Cup and 2023 Asian Cup qualifications were drawn on Wednesday and it sees Malaysia in Group G together with United Arab Emirates (UAE), Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia.
How former Everton and Australian midfielder Tim Cahill managed to pull that out from the bag is anyone's guess but what he did was ensured that UAE will be spending the next year thinking about Southeast Asia after four teams in that region were picked alongside them for a berth to the next stage of the road to Qatar 2022.