South Korea in the last game of the round of 12 performance is abnormal, before the United Arab Emirates, South Korea has won 7 consecutive wins in all competitions, during which the team only conceded 1 goal, but it is very strange that it is such a master of kings, but in the game against the United Arab Emirates, the score is 0-1, before, the South Korean team swept Iceland 5-1, 4-0 victory over Moldova, 2-0 victory over Syria, 2-0 victory over Iran, basically the state is bursting, the final battle is unexpectedly pulled, This has made many foreign fans question, and even some fans believe that the South Korean team has received black money from the UAE!
The South Korean men's football team is good at playing means, which is almost known to fans in the world football world, the most obvious is the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup, when the South Korean team was the host, as a result, they bought the referee, black Italy, black Spain, the referee almost guaranteed the South Korean team into the top 4.
Regarding the South Korean team being taken care of by the referee, this was even confirmed by the Korean football boss Jeong Mong-joon, who at one point said in an interview, "If my power can affect the referee's law enforcement, then why don't I use it?" Such words are too blunt, but also a little shameless.
Back to the last matchday of the Round of 12, before the match, the situation in Group A was simple, South Korea and Iran qualified early, the two teams aimed to compete for the first place in the group, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq and Lebanon competed for the third place in the group, that is, the qualification for the play-offs, and in the end, the UAE's 1-0 victory over South Korea, whether it was Iraq or Lebanon, there was no chance. The previous 9 rounds of unbeaten South Korea lost, so that the other 2 Group A teams are very surprised, perhaps, many South Korean fans did not expect, you know, before that, they were just 2-0 victory over the Iranian men's football team.
However, some foreign fans, especially in the Middle East, were disapproving of the South Korean team's performance, believing that the South Korean team deliberately released water to the UAE, which gave the South Korean team some money as compensation. Some fans posted a picture to the effect that the South Korean team took the dollar handed by the UAE team in exchange for losing.
Although it is impossible to judge whether the South Korean team really deliberately lost, it is very strange that the South Korean team has won 7 consecutive games against the United Arab Emirates, but this game that does not matter to the Koreans, they have lost. Another statistic is that counting the round of 12 and friendly matches, the South Korean team won all 7 games before, but in this final battle, they did not win 8 consecutive wins, but suffered the first defeat in the round of 12!