[데일리굿뉴스] Reporter Kim Shin-kyu = The Bentuho will take the final mock exam as a complete group ahead of the Qatar World Cup, which will begin on November 20.
The Korean men’s soccer team, led by coach Paulo Bento, will play an evaluation match against Cameroon at the Seoul World Cup Stadium on September 27 at 8 pm.
This is the last time before the start of the World Cup that the elite members, including European players such as Son Heung-min (Tottenham), Hwang Hee-chan (Wolverhampton), Hwang Ui-jo (Olympiacos), and Kim Min-jae (Napoli), will work together.
The national team is scheduled to depart for Qatar after an evaluation match in November, but it is difficult to convene a European team at this time.
Therefore, this match against Cameroon is the last chance given to coach Bento, who should form the final member, and players who should be included in this match against Cameroon.
Korea’s evaluation match against Costa Rica at the Goyang Sports Complex on the 23rd was a difficult 2-2 draw.
Heung-Min Son and Hee-Chan Hwang, the key strikers of the Bentuho, operated scoring points side by side to lead the draw.
Hwang Hee-chan has recently been pushed out of the starting competition for his team and has had fewer appearances, but in Bentuho, he announced that he is in good health by scoring two consecutive A matches.
In addition, Son Heung-min, who suffered from sluggishness in the beginning of the season and exploded a hat-trick in the last English Premier League (EPL) game before joining the national team, showed off his ‘solver’ aspect by kicking a free kick in a trajectory that the opposing goalkeeper could not use in the Costa Rica match.
However, defensive anxiety, which has been chronically pointed out in Korean soccer, still held the national team’s ankles.
Even with the return of ‘monster defender’ Kim Min-jae, the defensive balance was not right, or the stability on the left and right sides was poor.
In particular, Bento, who has not yet decided on the right full-back option to set as a built-in, is likely to focus on finding the best defensive combination against Cameroon.
While Jong-gyu Yoon (Seoul), who got a chance first, left a question mark on the defensive side, Tae-hwan Kim (Ulsan) and Moon-hwan Kim (Jeonbuk) continue the competition.
Bento’s tactical experimentation continues.
Bento, who said “I will try a different way of playing” in the A match this September, changed the formation by placing Son Heung-min and Hwang Ui-jo as two-top players and placing Hwang Hee-chan on the left flank.
It is expected that another tactic will be drawn up against Cameroon, and it is interesting to see if Lee Kang-in (Mallorca) will take on the role of ‘new engine’.
Lee Kang-in, who returned to the A team after 1 year and 6 months, watched the national team draw on the bench in the previous game.
Cameroon, which is called a powerhouse of African tradition, is ranked 38th in FIFA rankings, lower than Korea (28th), and Korea has the upper hand with 2 wins and 2 draws in the history of opponents.
In addition, Cameroon visited Korea with a team in the 1.5-team that did not include striker Eric Maxim Chupomotting (Bayern Munich), midfielder Zambo Anguisa (Napoli), and defender Michael Ngaduungaju (Ghent).
Perhaps it was due to the absence of some key players, they lost 0-2 in the evaluation match against Uzbekistan (77th) on the 23rd.