The round of 12 will resume on January 27, and the teams are currently in preparation mode, and the new national football team is training in Shanghai. As an old rival of the national football team, the South Korean men's football team trained in Europe to prepare for the round of 12, played a warm-up match with the Icelandic men's football team, and finally the South Korean team hoisted the opponent 5-1, and then played against the Moldovan men's football team.
On the international match day in January, the South Korean national team chose to prepare for the round of 12 in Europe, and the internationals who played in the Europa League were absent, including the star Son Heung-min. South Korea is ranked 33rd in the world and Asia is 3rd, behind Iran and Japan, and this time it is playing against Iceland, who reached the top 8 of the European Championship in 2016 and reached the final round of the World Cup in 2018, and is now a third-rate team in Europe.
In the 16th minute of the first half, Cao Guicheng volleyed through the goal and received his debut goal for the national team. In the 27th minute, Kwon Chang-hoon received a long passer and broke the goal, and the South Korean team extended the score 2-0. In the 29th minute, Baek Seung-ho blasted out the world wave, and South Korea led 3-0. In the 47th minute, Iceland pulled a goal back. In the 73rd and 86th minutes, Kim Jin-kyu and Yan Ji-sung scored one goal each to help South Korea seal the score 5-1.
Without a few main internationals, the South Korean team still won a big victory, showing the strength of the team's reserve strength, which the national football team cannot match. At present, South Korea is firmly in second place in Group A in the round of 12, and winning two more games can advance to the Final Round of the World Cup.
The South Korean team went to Europe to train, and the national football team chose to stay at home to prepare for the game, and now it is about to organize an internal confrontation match. There are a total of 52 national football team training lists in the new phase, in addition to the absence of 5 naturalized international footballers, Wu Lei and Li Lei also did not return, so 45 international footballers participated in this training.
Coach Li Xiaopeng and more than a dozen assistant coaches will divide the 45 internationals into two groups, commanded by Li Jinyu and Chen Yang respectively, and will have a warm-up match this afternoon, in turn to cooperate with the coaching staff to examine the competitive status of the selected players, so as to select players who are suitable for accompanying the team to Japan and Vietnam as soon as possible.
The training of the national football team is closed, so it will not be open to the public, and the internal warm-up game will not be broadcast live, and the media and fans will not know the result until the end of the warm-up game.