“Your opponent deserved to win…Lee Kang-in Zero Top, it didn’t work as you wanted”
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Choi Song-ah = Coach Paulo Bento of the national football team, who scored three goals in the 80th Korea-Japan match and was completely defeated, contemplated “a legitimate defeat without excuses.”
Coach Bento said at a press conference after a friendly match against Japan held at Nissan Stadium in Yokohama, Japan on the 25th, “We couldn’t play the game we wanted. There were many mistakes, and there were many scenes where the ball was stolen in a dangerous area. Said this.
Korea, which started the 2021 A match schedule one day before, scored consecutive goals to Japan’s Miki Yamane, Daichi Kamada, and Wataru Endo and lost 0-3. It is the same score as the’Sapporo disaster’ 10 years ago.
Even considering the fact that there were negative factors that failed to join for various reasons, such as injury or prevention measures for the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), the core troops of airlift such as Son Heung-min (Tottenham) and Hwang Eui-jo (Bordeaux) were completely defeated in a helpless battle.
Manager Bento looked back at the process, saying, “I thought it would be a good match when the offer came in for the first time. I was preparing and thinking a lot, but there have been many difficult parts and changes since then.”
He said, “Of course, we know the importance of Japan and Korea, and it is true that we didn’t play a good game even though we prepared well. Our opponents were better than us. Our opponents were qualified to win.”
On this day, Bento organized an attack team using Lee Kang-in (Valencia) as a zero-top, but as a result, it ended in failure. Lee Kang-in, who wore the wrong clothes, was replaced after the first half of the game without showing any such activity.
In response, Bento admitted a tactical failure, saying, “I analyzed the opponent and chose to try to crack the defensive line, but it did not go well.”
He said, “If the opponent is pressing hard and pulling the defense out of place, the wingers on both sides and Nam Tae-hee, who was a shadow striker, wanted a movement to penetrate the back space, but it didn’t come out well.” It came down and the attack was deployed from the center, and the intended strategy didn’t come out well,” he said.
He added, “In the second half, this part was improved a little, but Lee Kang-in’s zero-top tactics did not work well,” he added.
Manager Bento reaffirmed that he would not use the situation where many European players were missing as an excuse for defeat, and pledged to improve.
He said, “The assumption that’if there was someone else there would have been different results’ should not be said to the players here, and it would be a disrespectful remark to myself,” he said. “All responsibility for defeat rests with me. Looking back on defeat. “You have to find something to improve.”
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