2-2!Big upset!The first match-fixing of the Asian Cup was born: the South Korean team sent an own goal to avoid the two bitter masters
On the football field, match-fixing and tacit ball have always been hated by fans, but many teams often deliberately release water and play some games that everyone can't understand for their own interests. And this time, the protagonist of the tacit ball has become the favorite South Korea team to win the Asian Cup!
In Group D, Asia's No. 1 Japan slipped to second place after losing 2-1 to Iraq in a previous group stage and will have to face the top of Group E in the knockout rounds. According to the grouping, the team with the most strength to win the first place in Group E is another East Asian powerhouse, South Korea. South Korea are ranked 23rd in the latest FIFA rankings and third in Asia, and there seems to be no team in Group E that can compete with them.
In the second round of the group stage, the South Korean team welcomed the West Asian team Jordan. In the previous friendly match, the Jordan team had lost 1-6 to the Japanese team and 1-2 to the group opponent Lebanon of the national football team, and the strength could only be regarded as unsatisfactory. In the FIFA rankings, they are only ranked 87th, even several places lower than the Chinese men's football team, so if the two sides play normally, South Korea should be able to easily defeat Jordan and win two consecutive victories, while also securing the top spot in this group in advance, so as to face Japan in the next knockout round. But this scene is obviously what the South Korean team does not want to see.
In the previous East Asian Cup match, the South Korean team had lost 0-3 to the Japanese second team, which did not call up any players to Europe, and although the Japanese team does not seem to be in the best form recently, the South Koreans still have little chance of winning. Even if they are lucky, in the quarterfinals, the South Korean team will also face the team's other bitter host, the Iranian team. In recent years, the South Korean team has won less and lost more against the Iranian team, and the two sides have met in the past 13 times, and the South Korean team has only won a total of 3 games, including 2 games, which were won in penalty shootouts. Therefore, once they win Group E, South Korea will enter a death half, and their hopes of winning the championship will be infinitely close to zero.
For South Korea, the best way they can think of is to concede the top of the group as much as possible, so as to go to the lower difficulty of the upper half of the bracket, and avoid meeting Japan and Iran in advance, so the match against Jordan is particularly crucial. Although South Korea took the lead in just nine minutes thanks to Son Heung-min's penalty kick, they conceded two goals in a row before half-time to allow their opponents to successfully turn the score around. Especially the first goal conceded by the South Korean team, seeing that the opponent could not attack for a long time, Park Yongyu, the midfielder of the South Korean team, actually pushed the ball into his own goal and gave the opponent an own gift.
However, in stoppage time of the game, Jordan unexpectedly sent an own goal, and South Korea was lucky to draw with their opponents. Although they failed to lose to their opponents as they wished, the South Korean team also managed to give up the initiative to compete for the top spot in the group. Since the goal difference is behind Jordan, as long as this West Asian powerhouse wins in the final round, South Korea only needs to beat Malaysia to be in second place in the group, successfully avoiding Japan and Iran!