South Korea and Uzbekistan qualified for the semi-finals of the AFC U23 Championships after victories over Jordan and the United Arab Emirates respectively.<\/p>\n
In the game’s early match, South Korea was put to the test by a resilient Jordan side. The East Asians put themselves on the front foot after just 16 minutes when their smartly worked free-kick caused a scramble in the opposing defense, allowing Cho Kyu-seong to score a free header into an open goal and put his side ahead.<\/p>\n
However, they were pegged back in the 75th minute when Yazan Abdallah levelled the scoring, punishing the side for a number of missed opportunities.<\/p>\n
Thankfully for Korea, Lee Dong-gyeong managed to keep his cool from a free-kick in the fifth minute of additional time and hit an unstoppable strike in at the near post to take his side even closer to securing a place at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, at the Thammasat Stadium, Uzbekistan were ruthless in their match against the UAE. After going a goal behind courtesy of Zayed Al Ameri, the White Wolves roared back to score no less than five goals against their hapless opponents to secure a semi-final berth.<\/p>\n
Uzbekistan will face a Saudi Arabia side fresh off of eliminating hosts Thailand in the next round, while South Korea and Australia will be vying for a spot in the finals as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
South Korea and Uzbekistan qualified for the semi-finals of the AFC U23 Championships after victories over Jordan and the United Arab Emirates respectively. In the game’s early match, South Korea was put to the test by a resilient Jordan side. The East Asians put themselves on the front foot after just 16 minutes when their smartly worked free-kick caused a scramble in the opposing defense, allowing Cho Kyu-seong to score a free header into an open goal and put his side ahead. However, they were pegged back in the 75th minute when Yazan Abdallah levelled the scoring, punishing the side for a number of missed opportunities. Thankfully for Korea, Lee … Continue reading “South Korea and Uzbekistan Complete Semi-Final Lineup”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":21864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1973],"tags":[1846,95,70,882],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21866,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21863\/revisions\/21866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}