South Korea Loses to Ghana 3-2 in World Cup Action
South Korea’s World Cup team is in a tough spot after losing to Ghana:
Korea’s World Cup hopes are hanging by a slender thread after a 3-2 defeat against Ghana in Qatar on Monday. With just one point from the first two games in Group H, Paulo Bento’s men are going to need a convincing win over Portugal on Friday and hope that other results are favorable.
Korea Times
While the game had excitement for the neutral, there was, ultimately, disappointment for the Taeguk Warriors who will be left to regret defensive mistakes and missed chances. Ghana took a two goal lead in the first half, but the Taeguk Warriors came roaring back with two goals in the space of three second half minutes from Cho Gue-sung who became the first Korean to score more than once in a World Cup game. More defensive issues helped the Africans retake the lead and, this time, they held onto it despite plenty of pressure from the Reds.
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I must refer to my esteemed colleagu CH for a description of that particular version of “kickball”.
The point spread in a soccer game is such that it would be statistically valid to determine the winner by flipping a coin instead of going through the motions of holding the actual game.
Remember that the next time some wormy little third world peasant who doesn’t really grasp the implications of mathematics goes on about all the mad skills they saw in last night’s game.
Great shame, lost to 64th rank team in the world. Korea always under performs.
Maybe you misunderstand the goal.
If you can’t be number 1, be 69th.
This has the best “awesome number to effort” ratio of any ranking other than 420 and maybe 6969.