On March 2, 2023, Beijing time, Group C of the U20 Asian Cup group stage welcomed South Korea and Oman.
In Group C, there are South Korea, Tajikistan, Jordan and Oman, and the strength of the four teams is definitely the only one in South Korea, and it seems that they will not have much problem qualifying. South Korea, who have only been absent twice in the last 40 Asian Cups, have won 12 of their 38 appearances, and are undoubtedly the strongest contenders. Oman returned to the stage after missing the last two editions, with the best result in both competitions stopping at the group stage.
In the 29th minute of the game, the Oman player made a mistake in passing near the midfield, No. 8 Lee Seung-won successfully stole the ball to observe the player's running position and sent a straight plug, and No. 7 Kim Yong Hak pushed the goal in the box, South Korea led the first goal to take the lead. In the 33rd minute, Oman faced a high pressing and made another pass error, Kim Young-hwan passed to Sung Jin-young to stop the ball and turned around and directly chose to shoot the ball to score, South Korea extended its advantage by two goals.
At the end of the first half, Oman temporarily trailed 0-2, possession rate 46%-54%, shot 1-6, shot 0-3, they still can't create a threatening attack, in the face of high pressing or it seems that the ball is too simple and frequent mistakes, compared to South Korea is the overall advantage, the details of the cooperation and tactical literacy are better, for the opportunity to grasp in place, there is no pressure to win this game.
In the 57th minute, Kim Yonghak quickly went down to pick up a pass from his teammate and then took advantage of Sung Jin-young's goal to complete the goal, giving South Korea a three-goal lead. The Omani team was anxious to face the situation of falling behind, and a relatively large foul caused a skirmish between the two sides, and the referee showed a yellow card and gave a warning.
In the following time, South Korea still has a great advantage, repeatedly forming good offensive opportunities in the box, on the other hand, Oman has always been passive defense, can not find a good defensive counterattack, the number of shots is few, the substitute in stoppage time, No. 11 Jiang Sheng entered the box with the ball to shake the defense to complete the goal, the game ended South Korea 4-0 defeat Oman to win 3 points to win the first group stage.
Tomorrow, China U20 will make their Asian Cup debut, facing Japan's first opponent in Group D, and expect us to play our best.