🇰🇷South Korea

1. 1

   Guadalajara · Estadio Akron

   🇨🇿Czech Republic ·Jun 12 W 2–1

   1,566 m · 50k · open · 27°C

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   🇰🇷South Korea 2–1 🇨🇿Czech Republic

   Behind, and then not, this was South Korea refusing to accept the night Krejci's fifty-ninth-minute goal threatened to write. Hwang In-Beom levelled within eight minutes from Lee Kang-In, then turned provider for Oh Hyeon-Gyu's winner on the eighty-minute mark. An expected-goals line of 2.3 says the pressure was always going to tell, fifteen shots and six on target the proof of it. They had to come from a goal down in Guadalajara to do it. The best wins often ask exactly that question, and they answered.

   Goals 59' L. Krejci · 67' Hwang In-Beom · 80' Oh Hyeon-Gyu

   xG 2.3–0.83 ·Poss 62% ·Shots 15 (6 on target) ·Corners 4 ·GK saves 3

2. 2

   Guadalajara · Estadio Akron

   at 🇲🇽Mexico ·Jun 19 L 0–1

   1,566 m · 50k · open · 27°C

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   🇰🇷South Korea 0–1 🇲🇽Mexico

   South Korea will wonder how they left with nothing. They had more of the ball, the better of the expected goals — 0.63 to 0.48 — and seven shots to show for their pressure, but the one moment that mattered fell to Mexico, Romo finishing five minutes after the break. Two of their efforts found the target; none found the net. A performance with more in it than a 1-0 defeat suggests, undone by the one thing that always gets graded — the finish.

   Goals 50' L. Romo

   xG 0.63–0.48 ·Poss 57% ·Shots 7 (2 on target) ·Corners 1 ·GK saves 3

3. 3

   Monterrey · Estadio BBVA

   at 🇿🇦South Africa ·Jun 25 L 0–1

   540 m · 54k · open · 35°C 🔥

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   🇰🇷South Korea 0–1 🇿🇦South Africa

   South Korea will be haunted by this one. They had sixty-eight percent of the ball, knocked it around with real control, and lost to a single South African counter. The expected-goals columns were almost level at 1.0 to 1.1, which is the polite way of saying possession bought them territory and little else; thirteen shots to eight went the other way too. Teboho Maseko's strike just after the hour was the only decisive act of the night. Keeping the ball is a virtue only when it ends in the right box. A hard lesson, filed early.

   Goals 63' T. Maseko

   xG 1–1.1 ·Poss 68% ·Shots 8 (3 on target) ·Corners 6 ·GK saves 3

• 645km travelled
• 1,026m altitude swing
• 35°hottest · Monterrey

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