It is also true that there are many unfortunate injuries, but considering that it is not the final list of 23 players, which can only select two players per position as before, but the current “full-back chaos” is a talent that coach Jurgen Klinsmann has brought on himself.
The Korean men’s soccer team is ranking second in Group E (one win and one draw) with a 3-1 win over Bahrain on Tuesday and a 2-2 draw against Jordan on Tuesday. The group stage has ended with the third match against Malaysia on Saturday. 토토사이트 추천
If they rank third, they will automatically advance to the round of 16. If they rank third, they will be able to advance to the round of 16 only if they rank among the top four teams among the top four in six groups. Currently, chances are high that they will face Japan, which is likely to rank second in Group D, if they rank second, and Saudi Arabia, which is likely to rank first in Group F, in the round of 16. It will not be easy to go anywhere.
The biggest problem is the national team’s fullback position. Left fullback Kim Jin-soo failed to make the list for two consecutive games due to calf injury, and Lee Ki-je, the main left fullback, was replaced at the start of the second half due to injury in the first half of the match against Jordan. MRI results showed that he has a hamstring injury, but it remains to be seen how long he will need to recover. Kim Tae-hwan, who has shown good performance as a substitute for Lee in two consecutive games, was also absent from the training camp held the day after the match against Jordan due to calf injury.
There are still three days left before the match against Malaysia, so we have to wait and see, but Seol is the only fullback that can be used right away. There was a “fullback chaos” in which two fullbacks were needed and only one player was left.
Of course, it’s unfortunate. Kim Jin-su, who had a lot of injuries in a big competition, was sick from the start of the competition, and I didn’t know that both Lee and Kim would complain of injuries after the match against Jordan. However, Lee had to pick just four full-back players, who had a lot of physical exhaustion and Lee was not able to play at all for about three months.
As mentioned earlier, the team used to have a 23-member final roster system, in which only three goalkeepers could be selected and two others could be selected for the rest. However, the team has now changed to a 26-member final roster, and three additional players were available. In fact, Coach Paulo Bento selected Yoon Jong-kyu as his fifth full-back at the World Cup in Qatar. At that time, Yoon did not have to be used as a full-back position because there was no big problem, but he still made good use of the concept of “preliminary.”
However, this time, young Kim Ji-soo, Yang Hyun-jun, and Kim Joo-sung were selected under the name of “giving experience to promising players” for the three positions. Considering that Park Jin-seop is able to play central defense, he has selected as many as six central defenders (Kim Min-jae, Kim Young-kwon, Jung Seung-hyun, Kim Ji-soo, Kim Joo-sung, and Park Jin-seop), and the full-back position, which had the issue of Lee Ki-je, did not use the preliminary list.
Even though there were players such as Hwang Jae-won of Daegu FC, who showed good performance in the Asian Games and K League, and Ahn Hyun-beom, who played in Jeonbuk and was also called up to the Klinsman team, they turned a blind eye to Klinsman and selected promising players who are less likely to use them in the finals.
If only one of the three reserve players had picked a fullback, he would have had the opportunity to use a reserve player amid a series of injuries to the current fullback. Coach Klinsmann told reporters at a training session the day after the match against Jordan, “We will also think about using the fullback of Lee Soon-min or the like.” Wouldn’t it be resentful that he didn’t pick only one fullback, rather than using the fullback because he had never used the 300 before.
