Ji So-yeon, first Korean player to score 60 goals in A match
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Choi Song-ah = Korean women’s soccer smoothly cut off the start of the first ‘Asia Summit’ challenge.
The women’s soccer team, led by coach Colin Bell, scored two goals, including the winning goal, in the first round of Group C of the 2022 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup held at Siri Sib Chhatrapati Sports Complex in Pune, India on the 21st (local time). With the help of ‘ace’ So-yeon Ji (Chelsea) and others, they defeated Vietnam 3-0.
In this event, the qualification for the 2023 Australia and New Zealand Women’s World Cup is at stake. Twelve countries will play a group stage in three groups, and the first and second place teams in each group, and the two best teams from the third place teams advance to the quarterfinals to determine the winner in a single match.
Korea, which set the goal of reaching the finals and winning the championship for the first time in history, as well as scores of 5th or higher, which are given tickets to the World Cup finals, placed second in the group following Japan, the defending champion, who defeated Myanmar 5-0 earlier on the day.
On this day, Korea played with the exception of goalkeeper Yoon Young-geul (Gyeongju KHNP), defender Kim Hye-ri (Incheon Hyundai Steel), and midfielders Park Ye-eun (Han Su-Won) and Jo Mi-Jin (Korea University), who have contracted the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) from the list.
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The starting offensive team consisted of Hwa-Yeon Son, Yu-Ri Choi (Hyundai Steel), and Min-Ji Yeo (Soo-Won Han), followed by Geum-Min Lee (Brighton), So-Yeon Ji and So-Hyeon Cho (Tottenham).
Hyo-joo Choo (Suwon FC), Young-ju Lee (CFF of Madrid), Seon-ju Lim, and Seul-gi Jang formed the defense, and Jeong-mi Kim (Hyundai Steel) was the starting goalkeeper.
Against Vietnam, which had a total of 17 players in the followingmath of the Corona 19 mass infection, Korea created an opportunity with Choi Yuri on the right wing from the beginning.
After 2 minutes and 30 seconds of the match, Choi Yu-ri’s shot hit the post and Son Hwa-yeon’s shot from inside the penalty area shook the net, but it was not recognized as a goal because it was pointed out for offside.
However, in one minute, Korea took the lead.
Yuri Choi connected the ball with a forward press from the right flank, and Soyeon Ji opened the goal with a right footed shot from the right side of the penalty arc.
Ji So-yeon, who set the record for most goals in a Korean soccer match by scoring his 59th goal in an Asian Cup qualifying match once morest Uzbekistan in September last year, beating former men’s national team coach Cha Beom-geun (58 goals), became the first Korean player to score 60 goals in an A match. broke through
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In the 7th minute of the first half, DF Tran Thi Phuong Thao, who was regarding to handle a cross posted by Choi Yuri, scored an own goal, and Korea Republic made the difference by two goals.
Korea, which finished the first half without scoring an additional goal, continued the offensive in the second half, but it was not easy to escape due to bad luck in the goal and the defense of the opposing goalkeeper.
Seulgi Jang’s right footed mid-range shot in the 18th minute and a header shot by Son Hwa-yeon from a corner kick in the 30th minute of the second half hit the post.
However, in the 36th minute of the second half, when Jang Seul-gi raised the ball from the left side of the penalty area, a penalty kick was declared due to a handball foul by the opposing defender Truong Thi Quieu, and kicker Ji So-yeon calmly put it in and put the wedge. Ji So-yeon’s record of goals scored in a match increased to 61.
Korea is aiming for a second straight victory once morest Myanmar at the same place on the 24th. On the 27th, they will play the final group match once morest Japan.
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