Amr Obaid (Cairo)
Our team did not succeed in stopping the attack of the “Asian Tigers”, to lose a new match in the World Cup qualifiers, during which the “white” remained a defender against a sweeping Korean attack, as he possessed the ball in very large proportions in the first half, controlling the reins of matters, and his possession rate was 60% compared to 40 % of our team, as was expected before the match, according to the performance of “Samson” since the start of the third stage of the qualifiers.
The owners of the land implemented the high pressure in a frightening way, with a tremendous ability to recover the balls very quickly, I always put the “white” under pressure, to the extent that the number of our attacks reached in the first half only 6, including one complete attack, while the opponent carried out 21 attacks, completed 52% of them are in a frightening attack scene, so that the scoring opportunities continue in the interest of the Koreans in a half that is considered the weakest for our team in those qualifiers.
In total, the “Asian Tigers” scored 44 attacks in the entire match, with a clear balance over the two halves, and 21 of them were completed by 47.7%, while the performance of the “white” improved slightly in the second half, but the result remained the same, as 23 attacks were carried out. Only 3 of them were actually completed, with a success rate of only 13%.
And the South Korean team diversified its attacks between the two sides and depth, at a rate of 11 through the heart of the attack, 15 from the left side, and 18 from the right front, while the “white” sides disappeared, especially the right, which it relied on a lot in previous confrontations, only launching 5 attacks, through it against 6 from the left, the front moved a bit in this match, and 12 from the depth only one completed!
The Korean offensive harvest was dangerous, after he shot 22 balls against our team’s goal at a rate of one attempt every 4 minutes of play, including 6 between the post and the crossbar, Ali Khasif saved 5 of them, to be our team’s best player in that confrontation, and 3 shots bounced from the goal frame for the international star. , Son Heung-min, and “Samson” hit 16 balls from an easy penetration of our team’s penalty area for 6 attempts outside it, and he used air games to shoot 6 balls with his players’ heads, while our players shot only 4 balls throughout the match, 3 of them outside the penalty area, and the defense saved Two ineffective shots from Caio, in exchange for one accurate attempt by Tahnoun Al Zaabi, almost made a surprise, according to the course of the match.
The owners of the land created 12 confirmed scoring chances at a rate of one / 7 minutes in line with the continued offensive pressure, while the “white” only got two chances, one in each half, after failing to try to play on the counterattacks, as he passed 60 long balls, but The accuracy of our passes in the opponent’s half did not exceed 66%, and our team did not succeed in exploiting the crosses, only sending 5 balls with an accuracy of “zero”, while the Korean team played 17 dangerous crosses with an accuracy of 59%, and the accuracy of its passes increased in our half of our stadium. to exceed 84%.
The fact is that the Koreans outperformed themselves in this match, after passing 529 balls with an accuracy of 89.4%, and they were the most successful in doubles with 59.5%, in addition to 73.7% in air games that our players only managed to deal with by 26.3%, compared to 40.5% in duos And our players passed 355 balls with 80% accuracy, most of which came far from the opponent’s danger areas, even at the level of contacts. “Samson” succeeded with 63.6% of them, compared to 55.6% for our team, which scored one corner kick compared to 7 for the opponent.
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