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Bentuho, tomorrow against Moldova… Jeon Hoonji’s last audition

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Bentuho, who won the first evaluation match of the new year, will play the second evaluation match against Moldova tomorrow (21st).

The faces that will join the Qatar World Cup qualifier next week will be screened at the end of this match.

Correspondent Kang Eun-na-rae.

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Jo Kyu-sung and Baek Seung-ho, Kim Jin-gyu and Uhm Ji-sung.

In the first evaluation match of the new year against Iceland, the young people who scored their debut goal in the A match and made a mark on coach Bento have booked a sortie against Moldova.

<파울루 벤투 / 축구대표팀 감독> “We had a good performance, and the players attitude was good. There won’t be many changes to the starting roster (against Moldova).”

The Moldova Trial is the final mock test for the 7th and 8th rounds of the Qatar World Cup final qualifiers against Lebanon and Syria starting next week.

However, it is more meaningful to refine Bentuho’s ‘Plan B’ and select players than win or lose.

The newcomers who showed competitiveness in the Icelandic match, and the veterans who were involved in the World Cup final qualifiers, cannot be relieved.

<권창훈 / 축구대표팀> “I couldn’t attend the meeting twice last year due to an injury, but I thought a lot about how to make up for it and felt more responsibility…”

Earlier, coach Bento confirmed the participation of six foreign players including Hwang Ui-jo and Kim Min-jae in the final qualifiers.

So, six of the players currently training in Turkey will have to fly home instead of joining Lebanon.

If Son Heung-min and Hwang Hee-chan, who have been put on hold due to injury, join, the number of returnees will increase.

<파울루 벤투 / 축구대표팀 감독> “We’re going to evaluate what we’ve done during training as a whole. We’re going to make a decision (final roster) based on tactical and technical criteria.”

Their second opponent in the match, Moldova, is ranked 181st in the FIFA rankings, a whopping 148 places lower than us.

The match against our national team was in 2018, and at the time of the evaluation match, our national team won 1-0.

This is Yonhap News TV Kang Eunnarae. (rae@yna.co.kr)

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