[2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup: Round of 16] Korea vs Belgium 2015/10/28 [R]

Beat Belgium and we get France, beat them and we get Germany, into the final and maybe we'll see Brazil again? Sounds easy..

Along with the defensive performances, seeing LSW integrating into the team and his teammates step up as well, the generally availability of matches live, and the late afternoon/early evening scheduling, this tournament has been magical.

 

Our side of the bracket is stacked with contenders: France and Germany for sure but also Mali who completely dominated their match against Belgium (26 shots vs. 2). After the match even Belgium manager conceded that the 0-0 scoreline didn't reflect the one-sided match: "To be honest this is not the correct result. Mali was stronger and played fantastic, beautiful football." In addition to their swarming attack, their defense only gave up 1 goal during group play. After they kill off the Norks, their match against the likely opponent Germany should be a cracker.

 

I hope the Norks stretch Mali who then go on to slug it out with Germany. Exhausting matches ending in PK shootouts all around. Which by the way, would come after 90 minutes. Apparently this tourney doesn't have extra time.

 

Sadly this match will be on Fox Sports Plus.

It will be on FS2 on tape delay.

 

Smug!

Lee Seung-woo: "We've been watching videos of Belgium's matches [in the U17 World Cup]. I didn't see anything special from them."

— Steve Han • 한만성 (@realstevescores) October 27, 2015

 

lol, we better win now.

 

What an asinine twit. Then again he is a teen and we all know their brains aren't yet completely developed.

 

Shots fired.

 

Terrific, gives Belgium an extra motivation to beat us.

Better score a hat trick, LSW.

 

This is the same kid that said we would beat Japan 'lightly' while barely controlling an arrogant smirk, and then proceeded to destroy them. He can say what he wants imo. If he falls flat on his face maybe he'll learn some humility. Until then let him talk all the sh!t he wants.

And this might provide extra motivation for the Belgians but it also serves to give our kids the belief that there's no need to fear the big bad Europeans. This fearlessness is going to be crucial once we start getting matched against traditional heavyweight names.

 

We beat Brasil n they still don't take us seriously...Belgium will be the same.

 

wait who doesn't take us seriously?

 

Big difference between silent confidence and Rex Ryan-false-bravado

 

Yes, his words can come back to haunt him. But maturity means seeing how your action/words not only affect oneself but others--in this case his team. The Belgians are not playing against LSW--they are playing against 10 other boys. I agree that our players need to have confidence and fearlessness. But taunting your opponent is not a necessary component of that.

 

Odd, As the higher seed we are the team that should have the first choice on what to wear... but perhaps we chose to wear the white ourselves. I guess it'll be better than how both teams oddly wore their away jerseys at the 2014 WC, apparently red vs. black (belgium's away colour) clashes too much somehow according to FIFA rules.

 

It might not be necessary, but trash talking isn't bad. IMO Korean football generally needs to stop trying to be so prim, so I welcome what LSW is doing. I think he's mentally tough enough to do it right. This kid is a competitor.

One thing is for certain though - a lot of people are going to hate on LSW's style, especially if they feel he's been disappointing. I just hope that the reporters don't try to ruin this kid's career/mentality like they did with PCY. Fortunately LSW seems tough enough for the challenge.

 

I guess now that LSW has put a bigger target on his back with his comments, the Belgian kids will foul him like crazy. Hopefully our kids are working on their set piece play...

 

neither Brasil or Belgium

 

At the same time, I don't want him to get injured from a reducer because of a blunt pre-match comment.

 

Guys - do we even have the original Korean quote from LSW? A lot of our players get misquoted...

 

if Belgium really need a quote from LSW to get fired up at this point in tourney, they have much bigger issues to worry about.