South Korea-Portugal | World Cup Qatar 2022: direct and chronic

It is the delirium for another Asian team. South Korea touched the sky against Portugal with a goal in extra time and qualified for the round of 16 because Uruguay did not prevent it with another goal in the match against Ghana. An outrage in a withering counterattack. Another surprise in this World Cup.

Portugal reaches this border of the round of 16 placidly and this is not so easy to explain. He does not fall in love with his game, he is not a rock in defense, Cristiano Ronaldo has turned 37, he has no other differential players, his coach Fernando Costa Santos is well known for his stingy tactics…

It is not easy, except that this group can be considered one of the weakest in the World Cup. The reality is that Portugal arrived without a reply to the last day of the groups, almost guaranteed to be first except for a few caroms, and could face the match against Korea without the tension that has presided over the World Cup these days.

The afternoon turned to the Portuguese thanks to a quick penetration from the right by Dalot that ended in a goal for Ricardo Horta, the striker who left Joao Félix on the bench, who has not yet won an undisputed place in his team, nor has he He has achieved it in the empire of cholismo.

South Korea immediately recovered. She wanted to continue in Qatar. Bad news came from the other duel, the goals from Uruguay, although the Koreans didn’t care. His only obligation to continue was to knock down Portugal.

That is not so simple in the method of Fernando Santos, a coach jealous of his goal who has not succeeded in that aspect in the World Cup. Kim Younggwam took advantage of the indecision in a corner to place another goal in the pot of Diogo Costa, a goalkeeper who causes cold sweats.

They are the work of the miracle

With the tie Portugal stretched its neck, Cristiano Ronaldo brought out the crest and had two chances that perhaps he hadn’t failed before. The neighbors seemed a better team than the Asians, although without fanfare. The score did not change in the first part and everything was at the expense of the emotion that is experienced these days in the World Cup finals.

South Korea did not know how to put their teeth into the game, they did not decide to intervene in Diogo Costa’s goal, to play it on a card. He did not want to receive Cristiano’s sentenced counterattack, but was looking for a relief goal that would keep him on his feet. No more.

It was not the best attitude, although it did not reach the pettiness of speculative Poland. Son, the best Korean, was the most capable of hurting Pepe’s band, which still champions Portugal’s rear.

The Portuguese coach, that man who always seems angry, withdrew Cristiano, rest for what comes, and Portugal freed itself from a kind of cliché according to which all the balls have to end up in the star now without a team.

Korea pushed looking askance at his goal, but he lacked freshness and imagination. He attacked with few people and his laterals did not reach. But in a meteoric burst from Son, counterattack conducted with intelligence, she awaits the arrival of Hwang, serves up a magnificent pass and his teammate nails it into the net. Korean madness because the goal qualifies them for the round of 16. Only a goal from Uruguay could break that happiness, but the South Americans missed the target against Ghana and were eliminated.