Korea vs. Greece Post Match Thread [R]

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Outplayed, outwitted and outrunned. It sucks to lose like that. Greece gets the dubious honor of being the first defeated team in the competition, and in what was their most important game.

 

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Overall a good display by the South Koreans and well deserved victory.They were organised in defense and never looked nervous...

Greece on the other hand has to go back to the drawing board as they showed very little in this match.They looked as if they didn't feel like playing footbal.

 

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Greece looked absolutely lost today. The race for 32nd place begins.

 

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Well done South Korea. Doing the AFC proud Greece were woeful

 

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If Greece had anything in forwards, they'd have been able to expose what to me looks like a very weak Korean defense. If Korea doesn't wake up and beef it up a little and stop kicking the ball out and giving free Corner shots, they'll be sorry.

Up front is another story, though. Korea's got game up front.

 

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Fine with the 'zelas myself. Just a matter of getting used to them, and being capable of tuning them out.

It seems the Greek team has some internal problems. Not uncommon in teams that have half old players, half young ones. Generational conflict, something that is also affecting France.

Renhagel seems powerless to control the situation, and he said he will play this first game with the oldies (reason why Ninis wasn't used, too). I guess he'll be leaving the Greek team ASAP.

 

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really enjoyed the match. korea should have scored a few more, but i thought they did very well. some concerns in the defense, which i expect to be exploited by argentina.

korea's match against nigeria will be huge. can't wait.

 

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Very difficult for a neutral to find any affection for Greece after that performance. It's very easy to cheer for overmatched teams that show some spirit or some creativity, but there was none of either.

On the other hand, I feel bad for Greece's supporters; no one wants their club to play that way.

 

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IMO Korea have been the best team so far in the tournament... in the last two games played in group A there were so many turnovers and players were able to control the ball not let the ball control them.

PS. the stadium had only ~30,000 people out of a potential 45,000.... honestly fifa that is a HUGE disappointed.. I don't care if you've sold almost all the tickets, that doesnt mean that you will fill the stadiums!!

 

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I have a feeling that Korea has not shown all their cards yet.

Once they realized they could score at will, they stopped playing hard and changed to a training rythm, only waking up in some moments.

It's better for them that Argentina and Nigeria think, "wow, those Greeks suck!" rather than "wow, those Koreans have improved!"

 

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Korea were good. Cha Doo-Ri was the best on the ground, IMO. He ran at pace and crossed well from the right. Park Ji-Sung's goal reminded me of Paolo Rossi's second goal for Italy against Brazil in 1982. There was a blunder in defence and he just ran in and scored.

Greece were terrible. They couldn't put any passes together and they just hit hopeful balls. Vintra was atrocious in defence. Samaras played with no balls on the wing. Gekas had many half-chances but he couldn't do anything and Charisteas was lost on the wing. Gekas and Charisteas had heavy first touches too and they don't work well. Kapetanos did a decent job when he came on. Patsazoglou (?) looked decent too but this team really needs to improve.

So far, Greece has lost four matches, conceded 12 goals and scored none in the World Cup. What a crap team!

 

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Was I watching the 13th strongest national team (according to FIFA) in the world

Anyway, it's good to see an Asian team have big opportunity to get through the group stage.

 

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I thought Korea's centerbacks, Lee Jung-Soo and Cho Yong-Hyung were huge today. During the end of the game Korea definitely got complacent, but I have to give credit to them for overall doing a good job. Lee Young-Pyo was everywhere too, and it was nice to see that glimpse of fancy footwork that us Koreans are accustomed too (even if it was for just a second )

In all honesty, I'm really pleased with how Korea played today. Although it certainly did help that (no offense) Greece looked absolutely lost when trying to pull back a goal, I thought, defensively, we did pretty well. Offensively on the other hand, it's the typical make-chances-can't-finish syndrome. There were 2 real good chances that Korea should had capitalized on, both by Park Joo-Young, but nothing really came out of it. They'll need to work on putting chances like that away, but other than that, Korea looked good. On to the next game--I'm hoping we give Argentina a run for their money

 

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I think Greece had some chances, which showed the weakness of the central defence of SK. SK had most chances, to even score the 3-0 or even 4-0 (SK had 18 shots from which 7 on goal vs 6 from Greece, 2 on goal). Greece was not aggressive enough to counter SK energetic display. I saw a moment in the second half that Greece started to put pressure on SK (greece had 11 corners vs 6 for Greece) but it was way to late.

All in all in what a fair result. Greece maybe even wants to go home now, knowing they have still to play two better opponants in Nigeria and Argentina. SK think they can become second and I say good for them. It would be great for them if they can become second in this group before Nigeria.

 

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Great game for South Korea. I hope Japan will do well too.

 

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Not to take anything away from south korea but Greece's loss is rehagles fault, nothing more nothing less. He lined up a terrible starting 11.

-------------------Tzorvas
Torosidis-----Kyrgiakos--Moras-----Spyropoulos
---------------------Papastathopoulos
-----------Katsouranis
------------------Karagounis
Ninis--------------------------Samaras
----------------Salpigidis

With the players we sent to the tournament this is our best lineup. Compare that to our starting lineup and subs. If we started with this formation Korea would not have been gifted those two goals (Both were products of Avraam papadopoulos ********ups) and we would have provided a legitimate threat to score.

 

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We've got still have two more games against much better sides in Argentina and Nigeria. It was a good win but I am not going to take a breathe yet. We kinda looked lost for about last 15 minutes of the match. We can't afford to do that against the mighty Argentines and Nigerians.

Anyway, well-deserved victory for us.

 

Nothing surprising here. I expect South Korea to go through.

 

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Park JS is the man of the match, but they ALL performed well, especially Park CY. Some people already comment that he missed chances and what not. But I think he played fantastic and looked like a killer goal scorer that Korea always lacked. (except for Chaboom of course)

Park CY played just one game in 06, against Swiss. He did not play well and even made the silly foul that led to Swiss' first goal. I think he matured a lot since then he has proved it today at least for me.

Greece did play poorly today so we'll see how Korea does against a better team. I just watched few minutes of Nigeria Argentina game. Nigeria looks bad, except for their keeper. He just stole a goal from Messi. I couldn't read his name but he looks like a great keeper.

 

Not a big surprise. Greece is definitely the weakest European team in the competition.

I thought Ki Sung Yeung was particularly impressive.

 

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What about the non penalty call? And the "free kick"? Were they his fault too?