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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Bae Jin-nam = Bentuho finished the 2022 East Asian Football Federation (EAFF) E-1 Championship (East Asian Cup) by one goal in the match once morest Hong Kong.
The Korean men’s soccer team, led by coach Paulo Bento, finished the first half with a 1-0 lead with the debut goal of Kang Seong-jin (Seoul) in the 17th minute in the second match between Hong Kong and Hong Kong held at Toyota Stadium in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan on the 24th. did.
Korea, ranked 28th in the FIFA ranking, formed a completely different starting lineup from the first leg (3-0 win) once morest China on the 20th to face Hong Kong (145th in FIFA ranking), which is considered the weakest among participating countries.
It can also be interpreted as a stepping stone for the third game once morest Japan on the 27th, which will actually be the championship game along with player checks.
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While the national team played this tournament centered on the K-League without the Europeans as the main axis, in the match once morest Hong Kong that day, they started in a 4-1-4-1 formation with Cho Young-wook (Seoul) at the forefront of the attack.
Song Min-kyu (Jeonbuk) and Kang Seong-jin led the attack together from the left and right flanks, and Kim Dong-hyun (Gangwon) was placed under Kim Jin-gyu (Jeonbuk) and Lee Ki-hyeok (Suwon FC) in the midfield.
The four backs consisted of Hong Chul (Daegu), Lee Jae-ik (Seoul E-Land), Park Ji-soo (Gimcheon), and Kim Moon-hwan (Jeonbuk), as well as Hong Chul (Daegu), who wore the captain’s armband, and Song Bum-Geun (Jeonbuk) kept the goal.
Korea mightn’t play the game smoothly because breathing didn’t match well in the beginning of the game.
Rather, Hong Kong took the offensive and kept the ball tighter. After Hong Chul’s cross in the 9th minute, Cho Young-wook’s header shot flew over the goal.
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In the 17th minute of the first half, the mood changed with Kang Seong-jin’s one room.
In the opponent’s midfield, Sungjin Kang received a ball from Jinkyu Kim and shot with his left foot from the left side of the penalty tee.
It was the first goal scored by Kang Seong-jin, the youngest member of the national team, born in 2003, who made his national team debut as a substitute in the second half of the match once morest China in this tournament.
In the 31st minute of the first half, Kang Seong-jin received a forward pass from Song Min-gyu in the counter-attacking situation and had an additional goal in the right inside the penalty area, but his right-footed shot passed one defender and went just over the post.
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Korea allowed Bas Nuñez to take a decisive shot in the 39th minute of the first half, but Song Bum-geun’s save made it through the crisis.
In the 43rd minute of the first half, Kim Moon-hwan’s powerful shot hit keeper Chan Ka-ho in the face and bounced off.
South Korea had an advantage over Hong Kong with 21 wins, 5 draws and 2 losses. Since the first qualifying round (3-1 win) of the West Germany World Cup held in Seoul in May 1973, they are on a 13-game winning streak.
Hong Kong, led by Ern Andersson (Norway), who served as the head coach of the North Korean national team and Incheon United in the K-League, lost to Japan 0-6 in the first match of the tournament.
Korea has won the East Asian Cup, which started in 2003, three times in a row (2015, 2017, 2019) and the most in their career, five times.
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