The Korean national football team, led by coach Paulo Bento, decorated the first match of the year with a 5-1 victory.
South Korea ranked 33rd in FIFA rankings and won a friendly match 5-1 against Iceland (FIFA ranking 62) held at Mardan Stadium in Antalya, Turkey on the 15th (Korean time).
For this Turkish field training and friendly match in preparation for the 7th and 8th rounds of the Asian final qualifying round for the 2022 Qatar World Cup in Qatar, Korea has a lot of foreign players missing. He put on a stellar performance.
Bentuho, who defeated Iceland by 4 goals, also hit a new record for the Korean men’s national team’s record for most wins in a match against a European country in 20 years after the 4-1 win over Scotland on May 16, 2002.
Bentuho placed Jo Gyu-seong (Kimcheon) as the front-line striker, and Song Min-kyu (Jeonbuk) and Kwon Chang-hoon (Kimcheon) were placed on the left and right wings. The attacking midfielder was Lee Dong-kyung (Ulsan).
Kim Jin-gyu (Busan) and Baek Seung-ho (Jeonbuk) were the defensive midfielders, and Kim Jin-soo (Jeonbuk), Park Ji-soo (Kimcheon), Kim Young-kwon, and Kim Tae-hwan (Ulsan) were in charge of the defensive midfielders.
The goal was kept by Hyun-woo Jo (Ulsan).
The main character of the Korean national soccer team’s first goal in 2022 was Jo Kyu-seong.
In the 15th minute of the first half, Jo Kyu-seong received a pass from Kim Jin-gyu into the goal area and opened the goal with his right foot.
In the 27th minute of the first half, Lee Dong-kyung gave a long pass near the half line to the opponent’s door, and Kwon Chang-hoon dug into the opponent’s back space and took the opportunity to confront the goalkeeper one-on-one, making it 2-0 with a left footed shot.
In the 29th minute of the first half, Baek Seung-ho scored the team’s third goal with a powerful right-footed medium-range gunner from a distance of about 25 meters in front of the penalty area.
In the first half, Korea tried eight shots and scored three goals, while Iceland was blocked by the defensive wall of Taegeuk Warriors, resulting in ‘zero shooting’.
At the start of the second half, Korea replaced Hong Chul (Daegu), Lee Young-jae, and Jeong Seung-hyeon (Kim Cheon), replacing Kim Jin-soo, Kwon Chang-hoon and Kim Young-kwon.
In the beginning of the second half, Iceland’s counterattack continued, failing to record a single shot in the first half.
In the 9th minute of the first half, Iceland’s Svayden Guidjohnsen caught a cross from the left and shot it after our defense hit us.
After that, in the 16th minute of the second half, coach Bento replaced Kim Kun-hee (Suwon Samsung) and defender Kang Sang-woo (Pohang), excluding Kim Tae-hwan and Jo Kyu-seong.
In the 28th minute of the second half, Korea even operated a scoring store where Kim Jin-gyu decorated his A match debut with ‘one goal, one assist’.
Kim Jin-gyu made a 4-1 by connecting Lee Dong-kyung’s shot hitting the keeper again with a right-footed shot.
Then, in the 41st minute of the second half, Um Ji-seong (Gwangju), born in 2002, who came in as a substitute for Song Min-gyu in the 31st minute of the second half, also scored.
Uhm Ji-sung celebrated his debut goal in match A by connecting Lee Young-jae’s cross as it was with a header shot, ending the match in a 5-1 victory.
On this day, Cho Kyu-sung and Baek Seung-ho also scored their first goal in their 5th match of A-match, and a total of 4 players scored their ‘A-match debut goal’ and held a goal feast.
The Korean national football team will play a friendly match against Moldova (#181 FIFA ranking) at the same place on the 21st. After that, on the 27th, the 7th leg of the 2022 Qatar World Cup Asian qualifying trip to Lebanon is scheduled. yunhap news
