The South Korean national soccer team, led by head coach Jürgen Klinsmann, defeated China 3-0 in the second Group C match of the 2026 FIFA North-China World Cup (U.S.-Mexico-Canada) Asia 2nd qualifying round held at the Universiade Sports Center in Shenzhen, China, at 9 p.m. on the 21st (Korea time). As a result, South Korea remained at the top of the group with two wins (six points).
What drew attention ahead of the game was China’s tough football. As everyone knows, the color of the Chinese team is “shouting soccer,” which often makes dangerous plays that hurt opponents. Teams that had played against China used to express tremendous anger due to a series of injuries. 안전놀이터
Korea was not a national team A, but it suffered a lot in the national team by age. The Hangzhou Asian Games national team, led by Hwang Sun-hong, held an away exhibition match in China in June. At that time, Um Won-sang suffered a ruptured ankle ligament and Ko Young-joon suffered a long-term absence due to a ruptured internal knee ligament. I needed to be careful because the national team is no different.
Rough fouls could be seen in some scenes of the game, but fortunately it did not lead to injury. Son Heung-min, Cho Kyu-sung, Hwang Hee-chan, Lee Kang-in, Park Yong-woo, Hwang In-beom, Lee Ki-je, Kim Min-jae, Jung Seung-hyun, Kim Tae-hwan, Kim Seung-gyu, Lee Jae-seong, Hwang Ui-jo, Seol Young-woo, Jung Woo-young, and Park Jin-seop all showed no signs of injury.
He won a cool victory in the absence of any injuries. At the center of it was ‘captain’ Son Heung-min. In the 9th minute of the first half, Son Heung-min took the penalty kicker and finished calmly with the bottom left. And the stadium was turned into a library by holding a “shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
He continued in the 45th minute of the first half, cutting Lee Kang-in’s sharp corner kick forward and shooting the header. The ball was sucked into the corner of the par post. Finally, in the 42nd minute of the second half, he played as a free kick kicker and raised it accurately, and Jung Seung-hyun hit the net with a header shot. Son Heung-min became a vanguard in defeating China by making two goals and one assist alone.
Now, Klinsmann will enter the Asian Cup from January next year unless there is a separate schedule. It is fortunate that there were no injuries in the situation of aiming for the top.