The Red Devils are on to the Asia Cup quarterfinals with 1-0 win over Indonesia. Indonesia was the co-hosts of the tournament with Thailand and thus had a wild home crowd of 90,000 people cheering them on. The crowd was maybe to wild:
With so much at stake it was always going to be a ferocious contest. The 90,000 fans inside the cavernous stadium in the Indonesian capital let their feeling show too, tearing down a banner reading "Korea Indonesia Friendship".
Despite the hostile environment the Red Devils escaped with a win and moved on in the tournament. Korean coach Pim Verbeek is probably breathing a sigh of relief after the win after he had to tell outspoken player Lee Dong-guk to shut up after Lee criticized Verbeek’s coaching after the 2-1 loss to Bahrain. Verbeek also was hit with more criticism from former national coach Park Hang-seo as well as speculation he was going to lose his job.
Being the Korean soccer coach is almost an impossible job because everyone in Korea expects the team be like the 2002 team in every tournament and the head coach to be like former coach Guus Hiddink.
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