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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Yes! A draw with France! Oh ye of little faith, have I not told you that the boys in red would wear them out? :D Honestly, it was looking pretty bleak for a while there. Korea came out strong in the beginning of the half, but then France went on the attack and I wondered if we'd ever get momentum back. I thought Ahn came in a little late, but it turned out to be pretty good timing. Park Jisung, by the way, has been my fave ever since the last WC, when he scored against Portugal (a goal that ultimately helped keep Portugal out of the Round of 16). You can imagine how psyched I was to see him score the equalizer! Of course, my wife was awake, so the screaming commenced. Jason: yeah, that was Lee's second critical save. When I saw Henry all alone like that I thought it was going in for sure. And we don't get ABC over here, but you should see the Seoul city center. 20,000 is peanuts. ;) WS: I had similar thoughts when Henry first scored. After such a long drought, I was afraid that it would open the dam and let the flood waters loose. But the Korean defense was surprisingly strong (considering how weak they've been in that area lately). Anyway, great game. No doubt that France is the better team, and they really dominated the midfield, but Korea played with heart and came through in the end. [Edit: [quote] Will it be enough? I just can't shake the nagging feeling that Korea could have done better in the first half - and I feel they waited much too long in the second. A win was in, IMHO. [/quote] I'll say it again: Korea is [b]not[/b] the strongest of first half teams. No one here was expecting that Korea would score first. I think the hope was that we would hold them scoreless in the first half and then score in the second half. That's how Korea usually win their games--by scoring more in the second half than their opponent does in the first half. I think we we're very fortunate to get a draw. There was talk before the match of the possibility of Korea beating France, but to be perfectly honest that would have been a major upset. Everything is on the line for France, and they came to play today. Had Lee been a little less diligent in net, we could have been blown out of the water. I don't think Korea played their very best game today, but they played well. Even at their best, I think they would have been hard-pressed to win. Still, like you said, a draw is a good result. They started a lot stronger than they did against Togo, and I think they've got some confidence now.] [img]http://www.liminality.org/asylum/sigs/suho_umbrella04.gif[/img] ___________________________ Suho: [url=http://www.liminality.org]www.liminality.org[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/4837]Cell 270[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/5689]Sig Rotator[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/22173]the Fellowship of Sup[/url] [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/2031]Suho1004[/url] on 06-18-2006 23:06)[/small] Loading...
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