World Cup Fantasy 2022 team previews: South Korea
Our World Cup Fantasy team previews continue with a look at South Korea, who qualified for their tenth successive tournament with relative ease. THE ROAD TO QUALIFICATIONOnly Brazil, Argentina, Spain and Germany are on a longer streak of World Cups, with the latter being victims of a memorable 2-0 South Korea win in the 2018 group stage. 15 January 2022 Friendly Iceland 1-5 South Korea 21 January 2022 Friendly South Korea 4-0 Moldova 27 January 2022 WC qualifier Lebanon 0-1 South Korea 1 February 2022 WC qualifier Syria 0-2 South Korea 24 March 2022 WC qualifier South Korea 2-0 Iran 29 March 2022 WC qualifier United Arab Emirates 1-0 South Korea 2 June 2022 Friendly South Korea 1-5 Brazil 6 June 2022 Friendly South Korea 2-0 Chile 10 June 2022 Friendly South Korea 2-2 Paraguay 14 June 2022 Friendly South Korea 4-1 Egypt 23 September 2022 Friendly South Korea 2-2 Costa Rica 27 September 2022 Friendly South Korea 1-0 Cameroon 11 November 2022 Friendly South Korea 1-0 IcelandPlayed Won Drawn Lost For Against Diff Clean sheets 13 9 2 2 27 12 +15 7MOST RECENT INTERNATIONAL LINE-UPS23/09/2022 – South Korea 2-2 Costa Rica (Hwang Hee-chan, Son Heung-min)(4-1-3-2) Kim Seung-gyu; Yoon Jong-gyu, Kim Min-jae, Kim Young-gwon, Kim Jin-su; Jung Woo-young; Kwon Chang-hoon, Hwang In-beom, Hwang Hee-chan; Son Heung-min, Hwang Ui-jo27/09/2022 – South Korea 1-0 Cameroon (Son Heung-min)(4-2-3-1) Kim Seung-gyu; Kim Moon-hwan, Kim Min-jae, Kwon Kyung-won, Kim Jin-su; Hwang In-beom, Son Jun-ho; Lee Jae-sung, Jeong Woo-yeong, Hwang Hee-chan; Son Heung-min11/11/2022 – South Korea 1-0 Iceland (Song Min-kyu)(3-4-3) Kim Seung-gyu; Park Ji-su, Kwon Kyung-won, Kim Young-gwon; Yoon Jong-gyu, Paik Seung-ho, Jung Woo-young, Hong Chul; Kwon Chang-hoon, Cho Gue-sung, Song Min-kyuHOW FAR WILL THEY GET? The quality gap between our stars and squad players is quite large but, again, hopefully that team spirit can counteract this.” – SonaldoTHE KEY FANTASY TARGETS“The only ones that really matter for World Cup Fantasy are Premier League pair Son Heung-min and Hwang Hee-chan ($6.5m). Hwang Hee-chan meanwhile assisted four times during qualification but isn’t playing much for Wolverhampton Wanderers, so is short on match-fitness himself.
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