Sweden V South Korea World Cup 2018

Sweden V South Korea

(Synopsis in red)

Pregame bets:

€1.00 Single
Sweden v South Korea – Correct Score 3-1 20/1

€20.00 Single
Sweden 1/1

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Get in! For fucks sake Sweden should have had this game well wrapped up with half an hour to go. Korea offered nothing at all, and Sweden had chance after chance, and all the general play. Heart was in my mouth when Korea nearly scored with a header late on, but it was luckily well wide.

Beers: Group F of Beer World Cup:

World Cup of Beer Group F

Didn’t get any beers from Korea this time which is a damn shame, so will be only drinking the one beer, Crocodile Lager, which to be honest doesn’t look very appealing, but heh…..its better than naught!

Crocodile lager was pretty shite, no taste or flavour detected at all. Glorified water. Still it was better than the noodles from Korea that were so hot that I could only eat half or less of them. Crocodile just about.

PreGame:

This time Sweden will be at a major tournament without Zlatan Ibrahimovic, their iconic centre forward. Will it harm their chances? I don’t think so, if anything it might give them more of a chance to progress. They were far too reliant on him, playing virtually everything through him, and that hindered the development of the rest of them and stopped the team from playing with a natural style. Truth be told it never really worked for them as with the big Zlatan, and his even bigger ego, they never played particularly well and did nothing at the international level with him, not even qualifying for the last two World Cups. It could be a blessing in disguise. They were good enough without him too knock out an Italian team that just expected to walk into the World Cup.

That game in Italy was really a defining moment for the team. They defended stoically for 90 minutes in the San Siro, onslaught after onslaught from the desperate Italians, but in the end they did it. What a result that sent shock waves around the World. The Azzuri wont be going to a World Cup, the first time since 1958. Wow, just wow!

At the moment their squad dont have any star players that stand out, and they are struggling badly for form. But they weren’t expected to get out of their qualifying group ahead of the Dutch, they definitely weren’t expected to knock Italy out, and they are not expected to get up to much this time round either. Team spirit can get you far in world football. The Swedes, I wonder would it be wise to disregard them again!!

2002 is but a distant memory. Fourth in the World Cup, an amazing achievement for South Korea and one that probably will never be got at again, either by them or indeed any Asian team. This time they got a bit unlucky with their group, drawing the world champions, Germany, and Mexico and Sweden is tough.

They won just four games out of ten in the qualifiers, and their form in the friendlies is intermittent. But its not all bad, they do have one player of outstanding quality, Son Heung-min of Spurs, is really the type of player that could drag the team to a victory in a tight game. He always gives 100% and his passion might rub off on the team. It certainly needs to otherwise I see the The Taeguk Warriors returning home early.

For today’s game, it be tight, and for long periods I can see both teams cancelling each other out, but I would imagine that Sweden’s aerial ability should see them through for the victory, and they probably will be all over Korea from set piece play. Sweden knocked out Italy for fucks sake, so I would be very disappointed if they couldn’t handle Korea, even if the Red Devils have Son Heung-min up front.

A more detailed review on Sweden here and on Korea here

Was a pretty ok game, but Sweden should have stamped their authority much quicker and should have got a second goal to ease off any pressure as Korea were really poor and offered little at all in the game. But they could have nicked it in the end but for Hwang missing a simple enough header.

The Korean goalkeeper, Cho Hyun-Woo, has to be commended for keeping his team in it, as he made about 3 or 4 top class saves, one a point blank save from Berg. Conversely Berg had about 3 seriously good chances to put the ball in the net and fluffed them all, poor stuff from him.

Good call from VAR, as it was a penalty, unlucky for the Korean but he should not be diving like that in his own box. Granqvist coolly slotted it home, not bad for a defender.

Sweden are a bit limited in what they can do. they defend well and are compact and hard to break down, but they will need to improve if they hope to nick a point off either Mexico, or a wounded Germany. While Korea look like they will be doing well to score a goal in this years tournament never mind grab a point.

Music to get you in the mood

Peter Bjorn And John – Young Folks (Sweden) V PSY – GANGNAM STYLE(강남스타일) M/V (South korea)