South Korea secured passage out of Group H and into the knockout stage with a dramatic stoppage-time goal by Hwang Hee-chan to defeat Portugal, 2-1.
South Korea secured passage out of Group H and into the knockout stage with a dramatic stoppage-time goal by Hwang Hee-chan to defeat Portugal, 2-1.
Tottenham star Son Heung-min did the lion’s share of the work setting up the fortune-reversing goal, driving the length of the field and taking on three defenders before slipping a pass to Hwang. Prior to the goal, the Koreans sat in fourth place in the live group standings. The 2-1 victory tied them with Uruguay with four points and with each having a net-zero goal differential. South Korea, though, advanced by winning the goals-scored tiebreaker, 4-2.by the goal-differential tiebreaker after it briefly appeared El Tri instead would be eliminated by the “fair play” tiebreaker because the team had been assessed more yellow cards than Poland.
Hwang Hee-chan of Korea Republic celebrates after scoring the team’s second goal during the FIFA World Cup.Germany was sent packing after the combination of a controversial Japan goal and a suspiciously lackadaisical Spain effort put the Germans on the wrong end of the Group E tiebreaker. Earlier Thursday, world No. 2 Belgium was bounced from the tournament after squandering several opportunities to score in
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