Bento style without Son Heung-min and Hwang Hee-chan… No matter who goes out, build-up football

A 5-1 win over Iceland without a European core… 4 debut goals

In the first match of 2022, when the Qatar World Cup will be held, Bentuho performed a perfect ‘build-up football’ without any key European players and won a pleasant victory.

The national football team, led by coach Paulo Bento, played a friendly match against Iceland in Antalya, Turkey on the 15th and won 5-1.

Following this match, the friendly match against Moldova on the 21st is a place to check the power to prepare for the 7th and 8th matches of the Asian final qualifiers away from Lebanon on the 27th and Syria on the 1st of February.

The two evaluation matches played during the training in Turkey were not held during the FIFA A match period, so Heung-Min Son (Tottenham), Ui-Jo Hwang (Bordeaux), Hee-Chan Hwang (Wolverhampton), In-Beom Hwang (Kazan), Min-Jae Kim (Fenerbahce) The Europeans, the core strength of the Bentu, do not play.

Of the 27 people summoned to the Bentoo this time, 25 are active in the K League, excluding goalkeepers Seung-gyu Kim (Kashiwa Reysol) and Kwon Kyung-won (Gamba Osaka).

The composition of the players has changed significantly, but the football that coach Bento pursues remains the same.

Coach Bento, who emphasizes the rear build-up, has used a consistent tactic.

Bentuho’s basic tactic is to prepare for an attack from the rear while maintaining possession of the ball, and then continue to the finish with a fast-tempo forward pass when an opportunity arises.

There were trials and errors, but as the Qatar World Cup final qualifiers progressed, coach Bento’s build-up football has completely melted into the Korean national team.

This is a result of Bento’s tenacious build-up football after taking office in August 2018.

While maintaining the basic framework of tactics, the players’ understanding of tactics is inevitably high as they do not change the composition of the players each time the national team is convened.

In this convening, which could not be done with the Europeans, many players were given the opportunity to receive Bento’s scrutiny.

The national team convened on the 9th, departed for Turkey, and played against Iceland for a week.

Nevertheless, the fact that it showed tactical persistence and stability in terms of content as well as results is a positive point.

While it is unclear whether Son Heung-min and Hwang Hee-chan, who are recovering from injuries, will participate in the second consecutive match in the World Cup final qualifier, Song Min-kyu (Jeonbuk) and Kwon Chang-hoon (Kimcheon) showed that they were sufficiently competitive with ‘Plan B’.

Jo Gyu-seong (Kim Cheon), who scored the first goal, scored his debut goal in his 5th match A, and responded to coach Bento’s faith in giving him a chance to play in the absence of built-in one-top striker Hwang Ui-jo.

After several simple one-touch passes through the midfielder from the rear, the scene where Jo Kyu-seong at the forefront calmly finished was impressive enough to be called the completion of Bentoho’s build-up football.

Kim Jin-gyu (Busan), who was first selected by Bentuho and scored one goal and one assist during his match A debut that day, and Baek Seung-ho (Jeonbuk), who also enjoyed his match A debut goal with a strong mid-range shot, played active roles in the center and right flanks. Second-line resources such as Lee Dong-kyung (Ulsan) also sparked competition with existing main players Hwang In-beom (Kazan) and Lee Jae-seong (Mainz).

After the match, coach Bento was satisfied, saying, “Based on the results of training for a week, the players responded well to their orders.”

Iceland (33rd in Korea), which is ranked 62nd in the FIFA ranking, also did not join the main players, but on this day, 4 people from Korea, including Jo Kyu-seong, Baek Seung-ho, and Kim Jin-gyu, and 20-year-old Umji-seong (Gwangju) scored their debut goal in the match.

This is tied with the record for the most A-match debut goals (Seol Ki-hyun, Lee Cheon-su, Shim Jae-won, Ahn Hyo-yeon) in the Asian Cup qualifying match against Laos on April 5, 2000, when the Olympic team took part.

Bentuho is now developing his confidence that he can maintain his basic color no matter which player comes forward.

/yunhap news