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Video games 5 and 6 towards Singapore and China on the sixth and eleventh.
Competing for 1 pot with Australia, ranked twenty fourth in FIFA rankings
To change into the highest seed within the third spherical, you need to win 2 video games in a row.
The Korean nationwide soccer workforce, which swiftly appointed interim coach Kim Do-hoon, will meet Singapore and China subsequent month. Though they’ve a bonus in each their opponent’s report and energy, they shouldn’t be taken evenly. In an effort to advance past the third qualifying spherical and advance to the World Cup finals, we should win the two-game sequence in June.
The Korean nationwide soccer workforce will play the fifth and sixth matches of Group C of the second qualifying spherical in Asia for the 2026 FIFA North and Central America World Cup towards Singapore (away) and China (residence) on the sixth and eleventh of subsequent month.
Korea has remained undefeated by the fourth spherical of the second qualifying spherical to this point. As they’re at the moment on the prime of Group C with 3 wins and 1 draw (10 factors, +11 purpose distinction), it’s anticipated that they are going to simply take first place within the group and advance to the third preliminary spherical.
Nonetheless, because the Korean nationwide workforce’s purpose is to advance to the World Cup finals quite than the third preliminary spherical, so as to advance to the finals extra simply, they need to play the remaining two video games with the purpose of 1st pot quite than first place within the group.
In contrast to the earlier World Cup, the variety of teams for this World Cup’s third qualifying spherical elevated from two to a few. A complete of 18 international locations are divided into three teams and compete for a spot within the World Cup finals.
Japan (18th) and Iran (twentieth), who’re at the moment ranked first in Teams B and E and are sure to advance to the third preliminary spherical, will occupy the 2 prime seed spots.
Korea and Australia are competing for the remaining prime seed spot, and the 2 international locations’ FIFA rankings are twenty third and twenty fourth, respectively, with just one place distinction.
Relying on the outcomes of the remaining fifth and sixth video games, there’s a excessive risk that the rankings with Australia will change.
In actual fact, in the course of the second preliminary spherical final March, Korea tied 1-1 with Thailand within the third recreation, and Australia briefly overtook Korea.
If Korea misses out on the highest seed and advances to pot 2, it would inevitably be grouped with one in every of Japan, Iran, and Australia within the third preliminary spherical, so a troublesome competitors is anticipated.
Then again, in the event you obtain the highest seed, you possibly can keep away from competitors with the three international locations and benefit from the benefit of being assigned many residence video games early within the third qualifying spherical.
By way of this, if the World Cup finals are confirmed comparatively simply within the third qualifying spherical, the preparation for the finals could be hastened in comparison with different international locations collaborating within the 4th qualifying spherical. Because the Korean nationwide workforce has not but appointed an official coach, there’s a have to safe adequate time earlier than the finals.
Singapore and China usually are not troublesome opponents. The Korean nationwide workforce met two groups within the first and second video games and gained 5-0 and 3-0, respectively.
Nonetheless, there are considerations that nationwide workforce captain Son Heung-min might have amassed appreciable fatigue as he’s compelled to journey to Australia to play pleasant video games on the finish of the league.
It’s also necessary for Kim Min-jae, who had a disappointing season together with being pushed out of competitors for the beginning place in his workforce, to regain his situation.
Above all, as the primary coaching is held in Singapore after appointing coach Kim on the twentieth and asserting the nationwide workforce record every week later, the secret is how rapidly the coaches and gamers work collectively.
Australia will play the fifth and sixth video games towards Bangladesh (184th) and Palestine (93rd). As Australia is anticipated to have the higher hand in each video games, the Korean nationwide workforce should additionally win each video games in June.
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