[2016 Rio Olympics: Group Stage] Korea vs Germany 2016/08/07 [R]

I can't watch this game due to work...

 

I think we all remember him.



FYI he was one of the officials at the Fiji match (substitutions).

 

Basically the most important phase will be the early 20 minutes. We saw against Fiji that we were very nervous and our defense was very error prone in the beginning. Against Germany, just one mistake could lead to a goal. And if we concede another just right after, we are gonna fall apart (remember the ALG game).
If we survive the first 20 minutes I believe we have a good chance.

The Germans have their strenghts, but they are for gods sake not perfect. They are weak to fast wingers and long passes, the CBs don't have the best chemistry and the two Benders showed against Mexico how useless it is to play them together in the midfield (it's like if we used two Jang Hyun-Soo's).

If we really play like there's no tomorrow, can make more out of chances than against Fiji, integrate SHJ and SHM to the team perfectly, be careful to not give a lot of set-piece chances and most importantly defend as a whole team, I believe we have a chance.

We shouldn't fear them too much, Japan won against Spain in 2012 and that team was the best on the paper back then. Don't want to compare us to them, but all I want to say is that it's not always the better team that wins. We have much more desire and should be able to show that on the pitch.

 

Pitana is a very good ref, always close to the action. He was choosen as the referee for the 2nd lega copa libertadores final few weeks ago.

I don't see Germany crasching South Korea, will be a rather even match.

 

SHM & SHJ are getting the start for sure, correct?

 

Korea 0-3 Germany

 

Yeah it's 99% to expect.

 

Son Heung Min, Suk Hyun Jun(CF), Kwon Chang Hoon (AM) and Kim Dong Jun(GK).
Kwon Chang Hoon is pretty good, I heard he's linked with some clubs in Germany. But that's just rumor.
Ryu Seung Woo did really well in the last game. He's not that good for his club. He mostly played in Bundesliga 2. Moon Chang Jin isn't that good for his club too (K-league), but he knows how to get the ball through the net for some reason. Hwang Hee Chan plays well when he wants. He's omniscient and sees the big picture. He can't do no wrong, but us mortals just don't understand his ways. He is the Lord afterall, the son of Bendtner. Proverbs 3:5-6.

Also our defence is really bad.
Some of these guys can't even break it into K-league.

 

I hope Son is able to perform like he did in the bundesliga in this game, then we will win.

 

If it's true what German fans say, Klostermann will be LB and Toljan RB, like the first game against Mexico. The interesting point is, that both are right footed players. They basically have no left footed fullbacks, so Klosterman did it. But apparently he did well. Not the best technician, but a solid defender with an extraordinary speed. I think Son will be the perfect counterpart though. Klostermann's still inexperienced (only 2.BuLi so far) so SHM should take advantage of it.
The problem will be the right side with Toljan and Gnabry. Toljan can do decent crosses, but he is weak in defending (good luck RSW). I expect that a lot of their attacks will come from the right side. With Gnabrys speed, they could easily play out our weakest point SSM. And flanks will be dangerous too because both Petersen and Selke are heading monsters. No matter who plays centrally, our CBs have to take attention.
So I'd put someone who works defensively well on the left side. Unfortunately Ryu Seung-Woo will be the best option here, as SHM and KCH don't like to go backwards. Player types like Lee Jae-Sung or of course Park Ji-Sung we could really need (or on Olympic level, Choi Kyung Rok... dammit STY!).
But Ryu improved in that matter, so I hope he can help SSM as much as possible. And if not, Lee Chan-Dong or Jang Hyun-Soo (whoever plays in LDM) will have to help a lot. On the other hand, they still have Brandt and Meyer on the left and central midfield. But Brandt tends to go into the middle for shooting instead of doing crosses, so I expect Lee Seul-Chan to be less stressed than SSM. As our crossing is bad, I'd stick with the offensive tactics against Fiji, means using long balls, fast pass play, doing wide shots, etc. And Suk Hyun-Jun will have to take attentions from Ginter and Süle so that our AM line can break through the middle.
About the Bender bros in the DM I am not too worried. They play very carefully since they are injury prone (someone pointed out that Lars Bender the better of the two looked painful towards the end of Mexico game)
Finally, Horn in the goal is someone of high quality. He's probably one of the top3 GK of the tournament.
But Kim Dong-Jun is also very talented, so I have high hopes on him. Every single save by him could be gold worthy.
Oh and I would spare MCJ for the last group game as he isn't really the right player against the physically strong Germans. I am sure he could do better than the Fiji match, but this time I'd rather go with RSW, KCH and SHM.
But my words are not important.
I hope and expect that STY has analyzed the opponent carefully and wish the team the best of luck!

EDIT: Btw we have to hope that Gnabry's strong performance against Mexico was an exception, since he's still a very raw player. Aside from his speed and technical skills, he has a lot of weakness as well like tactics, wrong decisions and egoism. It's highly unlikely but maybe he's had a very good day

 

Yeah I guess that's one of the main reasons why he made such an impact. Somewhat similar to Ryu Seung-Woo from our side as he lost 1 whole season in benchwarming at Bayer Leverkusen and Arminia Bielefeld.

 

Hope so...SHM knows this ball play the best as it's right up his alley. We just need to let him do his thing.

 

This is either going to go one of two ways imo. It'll be decided by 1 goal either way, or we're going to get hammered by Germany's counterattacks due to the weakness, lack of concentration and lack of communication of our defenders.

 

If KCH does well against Germany and Mexico, we should think of him as a player who will play in Bundesliga. I hope he knows and his aware of this, its now or never.

 

All we can hope for is that it's a shoot-out. We will concede goals, that's not even a question imo. At least 2 goals we will concede, and we would be lucky to concede only 2 goals. We just better hope we scored goals as well and expect to be an all-out shoot-out. Kwon CH is the main factor imo for this match, in terms of keeping possessions, making the overlapping passes, and penetrating through the middle. I'm not worried about Son in the flanks.

 

http://sports.news.naver.com/rio2016/news/read.nhn?oid=003&aid=0007391929

True, but the latter doesn't really mean much at all.