The wounded Egypt team suffered a severe 1-4 loss against its South Korean host, on Tuesday, at the Seoul National Stadium in a friendly match, so that the Asian team achieved the biggest victory over its African counterpart in the history of the confrontations between them.
The loss comes amid a state of instability experienced by the “Pharaohs” after the sudden loss against Ethiopia 0-2 last Thursday in the second qualifying round for the African Nations Cup 2023, after a faint and late victory in the first against its guest Guinea.
On Saturday, the head of the Egyptian Football Association, Gamal Allam, alluded to the dismissal of his country’s coach, Ihab Galal, a few weeks after his appointment, as a result of poor performance, and after flagrant media criticism.
The Egyptian Federation had chosen Jalal, the former coach of Pyramids, to head the technical management of the Pharaohs team on April 12, to succeed the Portuguese Carlos Queiroz, after the latter failed to lead the team to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
And scored for the South Korean team participating in the World Cup at the end of the year, Ui-ju Hwang (16), Kim Young-gwon (22), substitute Cho Gyu-sung (85) and Kwon Chang-hoon (90+1), while the only goal of the Pharaohs was scored by Mustafa. Muhammad (38).
Egypt’s biggest victory over South Korea in 1964 was 10-0 in the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
The hosts opened the scoring through Huang, who took advantage of a cross pass and turned it header to the left of goalkeeper Mohamed El-Shennawy.
Portuguese coach Paulo Bento’s team doubled the score, after Tottenham’s English star Heung-Min Son lifted the ball from a corner towards the near post, followed by Huang’s header pass towards the second post, and Young-Gwon followed it with a low header.
The Pharaohs reduced the score before the break through Mustafa Mohamed with a powerful shot from inside the penalty area to the left of goalkeeper Kim Sung-gyu.
Before the end of the match, substitute Gyo-Sung added the third goal with a spiral shot from the outskirts of the area to the left of Al-Ahly goalkeeper.
In the first minute of stoppage time, Chang-hoon scored the fourth goal with a header from Jin-Su Kim’s cross.
It is noteworthy that the South Korean national team, nicknamed the Korean Samson, signed with Portugal, Ghana and Uruguay in Group H in the World Cup in Qatar.