[서울=뉴스핌] Reporter Kim Yong-seok = Japan won the Korea-Japan match in 10 years, held on the first day of the Olympic Torch Relay.
The soccer team led by coach Paulo Bento (38th in the FIFA rankings) defeated the Japanese national team (27th) in a friendly match 0-3, which ended at the Nissan Stadium in Yokohama, Japan on the 25th.
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| [서울=뉴스핌] Reporter Kim Yong-seok = Minamino Takumi (Southampton) and Korean players. [사진= 로이터 뉴스핌] 2021.03.25 [email protected] |
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| [서울=뉴스핌] Reporter Kim Yong-seok = 10,000 Korean citizens were allowed to enter the Korea-Japan football friendly match held during the Tokyo Olympics. On this day, 8356 spectators entered the stadium. [사진= 로이터 뉴스핌] 2021.03.25 [email protected] |
As a result, Korea lost again with the same score in the Korea-Japan War, which was held 10 years after the 0-3 defeat of the’Sapporo disaster’ on August 10, 2011. The three-goal defeat is the most goal-loss of all-time Korea-Japan matches. This is the third time following a 1-4 defeat in the 1974 Korea-Japan regular match and a 0-3 loss in the 2011 Sapporo friendly match.
It was a foreseeable defeat. Japan, including seven Europeans, laughed on the first day of the Tokyo Olympic torch relay. The Bento went on an expedition with 1.5 troops without Son Heung-min (Tottenham), Hwang Ui-jo (Bordeaux), and Hwang Hee-chan (Leipzig). There was no buildup at all with defensive breathing anxiety. Lee Kang-in (20, Valencia), who took the lead as a front-line striker, was isolated. There was only one effective shot in the first half.
Only two goals were allowed in the first half. Korea gave the opening goal to defender Miki Yamane (Kawasaki) in the 16th minute of the first half, and in the 27th minute of the first half, South Korea scored an additional goal to forwarder Kamada Daichi (Frankfurt).
As soon as the second half started, Bento removed Lee Kang-in and goalkeeper Jo Hyun-woo. Instead, they tried to change, including Jung Woo-young and GK Kim Seung-gyu. But I didn’t see a sharp look. Just before the relief that he had not scored an extra goal in the 1v1 chance disappeared, Endo scored a goal again to Wataru.
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| [서울=뉴스핌] Reporter Kim Yong-seok = 2021.03.25 The torch relay ceremony held in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. [사진= 로이터 뉴스핌] [email protected] |
On this day, the Olympic Organizing Committee started sending the Tokyo Olympics torch at J Village of the Japan Football Association in Naraha Town, Futaba County, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
The Japan Football Association made A Match as the’Olympic Test Competition’. Japan, which is suffering from Corona 19, refrained from inflows from overseas, like the Olympics, and allowed up to 10,000 nationals. This is also the venue for the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup final.
The signs weren’t good either. On the day of the game, one person in charge of the security at the hotel where the Korean national team is staying was confirmed as coronavirus. Fortunately, both players and all the representative teens were confirmed by voice, and the game proceeded.
Cho Hyun-woo, Kwon Chang-hoon, Lee Dong-jun, and Hwang In-beom, who left the evaluation match in Austria in November last year, were confirmed as Corona 19, and the Bentoho was surprised.
The win or loss in the match between Korea and Japan is absolute. If defeated, the approval rating of the regime would fall. In this situation, the Korea Football Association accepted a game in which the home team Japan was absolutely advantageous as a’to check the performance’.
There is also an intention to relieve some of the bad feelings through sports exchange. However, Japan, which summoned the’best’, was absolutely advantageous. The Bento players on their expedition to Japan were in a mess with the daily Corona 19 test. Players who stayed in the single room were allowed to play only within the radius of the’bubble’. Of course, you cannot use public facilities such as sauna. It is the’bubble system’ planned at the Tokyo Olympics. In a situation where everything was not going well with Corona, there was no way the practice training could work properly.
It was the current situation of Japan, who had’planned victory’, and Korea who could not get through the’predicted tragedy’. Like Son Heung-min, there was no fighting spirit with a certain player who would play the role of’director’ on the ground.