South Korea V Mexico World Cup 2018

South Korea V Mexico

(Synopsis in red)

Pregame bets:

Have a feeling Mexico will push on from the Germany game and hit the ground running, up against a Korean team with nothing to offer, this could be a whitewash.

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South Korea v Mexico – Mexico to score in both halves & Mexico over 1.5 corners each half 9/2

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Ah fuck ya Mexico, thats why you wont win fuck all. Playing back playing deep with nearly half an hour to play, against a shit Korean team. Fuck off.

Beers: Group F of Beer World Cup:

World Cup of Beer Group F

Corona of Mexico lost their first game, lucky then they are up against Korea, who have no beer representing them. No beer is no fun.

Corona to win, no beer from Korea, even gave the hot noodles a miss today, no thanks!

PreGame:

Mexico: Germany got rightly suckered punched by an extremely high octane Mexican team in the opener. Well done to Mexico on that victory, I was a little worried for them in near the end that they might rue all those chances they wasted, about 10 of them by my count, but no they held on for the victory.

Great goal by Lozano, brilliant to get the drag back and the space to rifle it home. Excellent move from the back, and in three lovely movements he was in.

It was a great game, can always rely on Mexico to entertain, they are relentless in their attack. Was great to hear the “ole ole” ringing out from the crowd, certainly they approved of the show the Mexican players had put on for them.

I fully expect the party to continue today, they should rip Korea apart if even they play to half the tempo they did V Germany. Cant wait for it.

South Korea were really poor in their first game, V Sweden, and offered little at all in throughout. 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.

They were unlucky to lose to a penalty but it was a good call from VAR, as it was a penalty. Hard to take for the Koreans but their defenders should not be diving like that in their own box.

Korea look like they will be doing well to score a goal in this years tournament never mind grab a point against Mexico. Will be curtains for them today.

A more detailed review on South Korea here and on Mexico here

Mexico won today but I was far from convinced by that performance. Lets be honest they wouldn’t have scored in the first half if it wasn’t for the penalty. They were very slow to get motoring at times, and defending with over 25 minutes to go is a bit beneath them.

As for Korea, crikey they could have ten yellow cards for all the misplaced tackles they did today, rather the the measly 4 they got. They just didn’t have the players to do anything substantial in this World Cup, albeit Son Heung-Min played much better today, was lively throughout, had a rake of chances, and managed to score a cracker of a goal. We wont mention the simple chance he had well before!

Mexico got the penalty in the first half, a definite peno, don’t know what the defender was doing flying in with his hands up. Nice penalty from Vela, about all he did in the game.

The thing I hate about Mexico is that they always waste so many score able opportunities and good forward play but sloppy play or ballooning the ball over the bar. Layún did it in the first half, Lozano did it a good few times, even the usually reliable Javier Hernández kicking the ball out of the stadium. FFS lads try and keep your shots low gravity.

R Márquez made an appearance and proceeded to have a brain freeze gifting the ball to Min, who should have done better. Corona came on and I was wondering what Porto got for their 10 million, as he barely made a forward run at all, tripping up over the ball at times. Anyway Korea pulled one back and Mexico held on, just about.

I am not so sure about Mexico now and cant see them getting to far into the tournament after this display. As for Korea, they might be hammered by Germany.

Music to get you in the mood

자우림 (Jaurim) – 스물다섯, 스물하나 (Twenty-five, Twenty-one) [Goodbye, grief.] (South Korea) V Kobol – Neotoma Syndrome (Mexico)