togo is beating korea THIS IS BAD FOR ASIA's QUOTA FOR 2010

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TOGO is beating korea! THIS IS BAD FOR ASIA's QUOTA FOR 2010

we really need to beat angola also!

if asia does poorly they will reduce our allocation for 2010 and with australia joining asia its gonna be even harder!

we need the central americans to badly fail too!

down with costa rica, trinidad and mexico! and lol usa got spanked yesterday

[Saam]

i guess performance wise we have been the best asian team

[Taz]

Tbh im all for the Asian quota being brought down so as i won't have to watch South Korea Vs Togo in 2010, if we are good enough we will get through, if we can't beat teams like South Korea to go to the world cup than we don't deserve to go through, 4 teams from Africa and 4 teams from Asia is too much, obviously im putting priority on the spectacle of the world cup rather than Irans welfare but i wouldn't want to see more games of this quality just so that Iran qualify.

[Big one]

they are tied at 1-1.

[Big one]

Korea scored again. 2-1 Korea.

[TM_FAN]

aussies are asian now!!! so!!!

[Iscariot]

i guess performance wise we have been the best asian team

no, only in the 1st half..but Japan, Australia (duh) and Korea all played better

[EKBATAN]

LOL

KOREA WON MATE 2 to 1

Asia is saved

[Taz]

Korea played better? they were dire, Togo are nowhere near the same class as Mexico and South Korea required two late goals against 10 men to beat them. Look at the performance and the opposition rather than taking into accoutn the result. I didn't get to see the Japan match cause of exams though so i cant comment

[Saam]

LOL
KOREA WON MATE 2 to 1
Asia is saved

Who cares about that? Iran will save asia in the next week or so by giving them another spot!!

[Iscariot]

Korea played better? they were dire, Togo are nowhere near the same class as Mexico and South Korea required two late goals against 10 men to beat them. Look at the performance and the opposition rather than taking into accoutn the result. I didn't get to see the Japan match cause of exams though so i cant comment

Yea Korea played better because their coach has BALLS the size of Jack Bauer's...He put in attackers Ahn (the guy who scored on italy in 02) unlike our pusssy-coward coach who prolly would have been satisfied with the equalizer. Guess who scored the winning goal for Korea? Yup, the sub...Dick Advocaat won them the game, even before Togo was reduced to ten men, Korea came out a TOTALLY different team in the 2nd half (unlike us where we basically gave up after min 60.)

Kudos Korea...the result of Swiss-France also helped them today

[Saam]

too bad our coach has non-existent balls

[Taz]

They were playing against TOGO, they were expected to win the game and there would be an outcry if they didn't. We went into the game against a top 10 side in the world and we battled hard and earned a draw at half time. At half time don't tell me anyone was hoping Branko would replace a midfielder or defender with a striker, i would have been ecstatic at a draw against a top quality side like Mexico. When we are 1-1 against them and realise that a draw is a good result against such a strong outfit, why go so gung ho, fair enough if it was the 70/80th minute and it looked like we were creating chances but not scoring them i would have wanted Branko to bring on another striker but we were getting absolutely pummelled and had he brought on a striker in place of Nekounm or someone we would be looking at a humiliating scoreline.

[Iscariot]

OMG did you watch the game? Togo was actually good in the first half, but dick advocaat made the proper changes so that Korea pressured them in the second...which worked because immediatley the Togoian captain got sent off.

What would Branko have done at 1-1? Would he bring on an attacker?????? And not nekounam, but Daei as everyone with a brain said, He would have removed daei and not Karimi... BS man, BS, I give Korea 100% congratulations because this world cup it seems like coaching decision matters more than usual

[rkim291968]

Win is a win, even against a team which Korea should have beaten.

Korea played terribly in the first half. Why they deployed 3 back system after practicing 4 back leading to WC06 is beyond me. But they went back to 4 back system in the 2nd half, brought in Ahn and Kim Nam Ill and changed the game. The rest is history.

No team in WC is a gimmie. Don't overlook teams like Angola. It will come down to a couple of breaks here and there and bad teams can beat good teams. Winning against a weak team is just as good. Good luck.