South Korea captain Ki Sung-Yeung could be absent at the final 2018 World Cup qualification match against Uzbekistan in Tashkent on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Ki did not even make the bench in last Thursday’s 0-0 draw with Iran because he wasn’t fully fit following the knee surgery during a 3-2 loss in Qatar in June.<\/p>\n
As reported by Yonhap News<\/a>, head coach Shin Tae-yong said there was still a “fifty-fifty chance” that the Swansea City anchorman could be used against Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n The Taeguk Warriors still have chance of booking a place in Russia next summer. A win over Uzbekistan will send Shin and his men to the World Cup regardless of other results, but a draw or a loss means their fate will depend on the match between Syria and Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" South Korea captain Ki Sung-Yeung could be absent at the final 2018 World Cup qualification match against Uzbekistan in Tashkent on Tuesday. Ki did not even make the bench in last Thursday’s 0-0 draw with Iran because he wasn’t fully fit following the knee surgery during a 3-2 loss in Qatar in June. As reported by Yonhap News, head coach Shin Tae-yong said there was still a “fifty-fifty chance” that the Swansea City anchorman could be used against Uzbekistan. The Taeguk Warriors still have chance of booking a place in Russia next summer. A win over Uzbekistan will send Shin and his men to the World Cup regardless of other … Continue reading “South Korea captain Ki Sung-Yeung could miss crucial Uzbekistan qualifier”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":6736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[867],"tags":[761,674,70,882,332],"class_list":["post-6735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-korea","tag-2018-world-cup-qualification","tag-shin-tae-yong","tag-south-korea","tag-uzbekistan","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=6735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}