…TIGERS COACH, PAULO BRENTO BAGS RED CARD, TO MISS PORTUGAL VERSUS SOUTH KOREA MATCH.
Goal scorers Salisa and Kudu celebrate
Frustrated Asian Tigers, South Korea turned to paper Tigers on Monday by the Black Stars of Ghana via a 3-1 defeat at the world cup will not have their coach, Paulo Bento on the bench when they play their last group game against Portugal on 3rd of December as the elderly man bagged a straight read for ungentlemanly conduct and alleged unprintable words on the English match officials.
The Black Stars got a jerky victory from a Mohammed Salisu opener at 24th minute, his first goal in the tournament before the brace (two goals in a match) from irrepressible Mohammed Kudus who got a lob from Jordan Ayew to score at 34th minute and finally made Ghana Stars show brightly with the decider at 68th minutes and Ghana parked a train in front of their goal post not a bus like Chelsea Club of England to prevent conceding any further goal from the wounded Tigers.
The Tigers did not drop their guard throughout the match as Gue-Sung Cho scored a brace for the team 58th minute from a Kang-Ln Lee assist and the second goal in the 61st minute and the Asians bombarded the Ghanaian territory putting immense pressure on the West Africans who probably took the whole citizens of Ghana to the Education City Stadium as Ghanaian defence became impregnable.
The pressure on South Korea was so much that the team committed 13 fouls to Ghana’s 9 with 2 yellow cards each probably the most rough team so far but forgot Africans play more physical body so ‘jam body’ football does not affect Apu consuming swallows of African food. The defence of Ghana played the match of their life clearing the 12 corner kicks of South Korea against 5 of Ghana.
Perhaps a dossier of the match Ref 44-year-old Manchester born, Anthony Taylor who is making his debut at the world cup will give you the picture of the stern disposition of the man who awarded 10 extra minutes for time wasting. Taylor in 2020 handled his second British FA Cup final and has handled four EUFA champions League. The VAR chief was Tomas Kwiotkowski of Poland.
The frustration for South Korea was aggravated by the fact that the team played a goalless draw with Uruguay while Ghana lost to Portugal 2-3 and The Tigers might be standing at the exit door because they would be playing Portugal in the last group games in a match Ronaldo and his team need to win ‘very badly’.
Ghana that day 3rd December will be on revenge mission against the team that denied them their first ever semifinal appearance when Suarez deliberately handle a goal bound shot after every player had been beaten. Suarez got a straight red card and Asamoah Gyan, ballooned the ball over the bar. Ghana eventually lost via penalty shootout.
Portugal plays Uruguay at 8 pm tonight in the other second round game.
Portugal temporarily leads the table with 3 point and+1 goals difference; Ghana is 2nd with 3 points and zero GD; Uruguay is 3rd with one point and zero GD while South Korea is 4th with one point and -1 GD.
Eniola Olatunji reporting FifaworldcupQatar2022.
