South Korea Hit the Decisive Punch

South Korea needed a win in their first match to back up their astonishing success four years back and they did just that. Match had a similar status as that of Mexico and Iran both teams cannot afford to lose. But it was Togo who set off an early impression with typical African style of play. Mohammad Kader was the impressive and did cause trouble to Korean defense. And he got his team the early lead with a wonderful thigh stop and then firing in a low shot to the far corner Togo 1 nil.

In second half it looked Togo had forgotten that match is of 90 minutes they looked so non-interested and just sat back and allowed Korea to mount pressure. In 57th minute game took a turn Togo skipper was sent off with second booking and Lee Chun-Soo dipped a wonderfully taken free kick into the corner of the net , 1-1. It was all on the cards that South Korea will get a winner , question was when? And it could have been non better than Ahn Jung-Hwan(the guy who sank Italy with his goal in 2002) he found more than enough space and time to hit a dipping shot South Korea 2-1. Match killed there and it was over.

South Korea still don’t look good to qualify for the second round, (specially after Swiss and French drew 0-0) unless they beat one of them but for that they will need to tighten up their defense a lot, they gave too much space to Togo even when they were not pressing.

Frankly I don’t want to write about the game between France and Swiss, it was seriously not a game I would say most boring of all so far. There were hardly any chances and the ones which were there were blown away so immaturely as if we are witnessing third level clubs playing. I hope both of the teams improve their game otherwise non of them should goto next round.

And why the hell David Trezeguet wasn’t played, Louis Saha was totally ineffective.