Greece Loses to South Korea in Friendly 0-1

[admin]

South Korea downed EURO 2004 holders Greece (1-0) at London's Craven Cottage stadium earlier tonight. Greece will face Turkey up next on March 24, 2007 at Piraeus' Karaiskaki stadium for their EURO 2008 qualifier match.

Greece national team coach Otto Rehhagel tried out different players but his team was beaten by a well struck free-kick by Chun-Soo Lee in the 78th minute of the game. Each team has a shot on post - Park (43') and Giannakopoulos (50'). Greece played well but was not able to finish their scoring opportunities.

International Friendly Result: Greece 0:1 South Korea

Stadium: Craven Cottage (Fulham) - London

Goals: Chun-Soo Lee 78' (S. Korea)

Yellow Cards: Katsouranis 8', Samaras 45', Mpasinas 82' (Greece) - Chun-Soo Lee 25', Jin-Kyu Kim 54' (S. Korea)

Greece (Rehhagel): Nikopolidis (Chalkias 46'), Seitaridis, Fyssas (Vyntra 46'), Kyrgiakos (Mantzios 84'), Anatolakis (Goumas 46'), Mpasinas, Karagounis, Katsouranis, Samaras (Giannakopoulos 46'), Charisteas, Gekas (Amanatidis 46').

South Korea: Yong-Dae Kim, Jin-Kyu Kim, Nam-Il Kim (Yung-Vy Kim 58'), Ho Lee, Chu-Young Park (Ki-Hyeon Seol 81'), Jae-Jin Cho (Do-Hyeon Kim 75'), Chun-Soo Lee (Ki-Heyon Yeom 92'), Yi-Sung Park, Young-Pyo Lee (Chi-Vu Kim 46'), Sang-Sik Kim, Beom-Seok Oh.

Referee: Mike Dean (England)
Assistant Referees: Gavin Ward (England), Kevin Pike

[admin]

Should have been 3-0 Greece...

Charisteas was robbed and Stelios hit the bar.

Really poor finishing again from the Greeks.

YouTube Video

Goal by Korea, pretty low chance but went in. The Greeks have to finish easier chances and they had a few.

[admin]

http://dory.mncast.com/mncHMovie.swf...1659&skinNum=2

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[killer_6]

Too bad. IT would have been nice to grab a win with the big match vs Turkey coming up soon. At least the effort was good. Just need a little more intensity and more finishing vs Turkey

[macedonian]

This lack of finish has plauged us for far too long. Even are goalies are in question these days (although this goal was legit). What happened to Clooney anyways for Chalkias to come in?