Asian Cup 2007: Korea vs Japan

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Japan and South Korea, the two archrivals, will play against each other in the third place play-off of Asian Cup 2007. The match will be held on 28 July 2007. It is surprising that the two Asian football powers will have to fight for the third place. Both Japan and South Korea were favorites to win the cup. However, all predictions have been proven wrong as both the teams lost in their semi final match. Along with Australia, Iran and Saudi Arabia, Japan and South Korea were also in the list of favorites.

For Japan, it was a great chance to re-experience a history in Asian Cup. Japan is the defending champion of last two Asian Cup tournaments. So, if they could win this ongoing tournament then this would be their third consecutive Asian Cup victory. In the history of Asian Cup, only Iran has such record as they won three consecutive Asian Cup tournaments in 1968, 1972 and 1976. However, in the semi final match, Japan lost to Saudi Arabia by 3-2. The match was very competitive as both the teams were strong enough to be defeated. Both Japan and Saudi Arabia play well but at the end, Saudi Arabia is ahead of Japan by one goal that was the only difference between the team in the match.

On the other hand, South Korea was clearly favorite against Iraq. However, in the match, both the teams looked similar in terms of skill and performance. In 90 minutes the match was goalless, though there were some crucial attacks from both sides. In the 30 minute extra time, the score line remained same, goalless. Then the tiebreaker stage came in to the scene and at last Iraq won the match by 4-3 in penalty shootouts. Both the teams could goal in their first three shots. However, in the fourth and fifth shot, South Korea missed whereas Iraq could score from the forth shot.

Japan started the tournament as a favorite and could qualify for the quarter final round as the B group champion. In quarter final they faced mighty Australia who could not live up to the expectation. Japan won the match through tiebreaker where they best Australia by 4-3. On the other hand, South Korea started the tournament badly and at one point there were about to get out of Asian Cup 2007 from the group stage. South Korea got only 1 point from their first two group matches. However, from the third group match they came back in the right track. In the quarter final match, they defeated Vietnam by 2-0 and reached in the semi final.

I know that both Japan and South Korea were favorites but in football, you have to perform in a particular day to win the match. No matter, how many star footballers a team has or to what extent they are strong; rather the determiner is the performance of 90 minutes in a particular day.

Now, the question is that who will win the third place of Asian Cup 2007. It is true that players of both the teams are now in distress as they failed to make it to the final. Now, let’s see who can stage their best performance forgetting the semi final nightmare. What do you think about it?