FIFA World Cup 2006 Republic of Korea v Togo (spoilers)

[Anarcho-Socialist]

It's about to start. Togo are in their first World Cup.

[texasleo]

1. thank God, I need to watch something other than the ....

:argh:

[SoftUnderbelly]

2. not watching

but apparently they forgot to play the togo national anthem and played the south korea one twice :D thought the germans were meant to be organised!

been a brilliant world cup so far. brazil - croatia tonight should be fantastic.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

4. another Brit

Have you introduced yourself around the UK forum yet? :)

[SoftUnderbelly]

5. aye

posted on a few topics. this forum is all a bit confusing though, takes a bit of getting used to. many british people here?

[Anarcho-Socialist]

7. There's about 20 regular British posters, with maybe another 20

infrequent posters. Not many come into GD though, things tend to be very emotive here.

[SoftUnderbelly]

8. yeah i noticed

got into a few arguments over the high emtions, especially the references to hitler/nazis that dont do anyone any favours. i think its funny, and very sad, that people here call bush a nazi while on fr they call clinton 'hitlery'. just looks like school playground 'i know you are but what am i' i don get involved in them now :D

[Anarcho-Socialist]

3. 20 minutes gone, some impressions

Togo are exciting when running at defenders, but are awful in the air, not able to to take advantage of aerial balls into the 18-yard box. South Korea are reasonably solid, somewhat melodramatic, but don't have an imaginative attack. South Korea look slightly stronger, but the game could go either way.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

6. GOAL Togo!!! 31 minutes

Wow, what a goal. Mohamed Kader runs onto an aerial forward pass, great first touch past the defender, runs into the 18-yard box and slots it into the far bottom corner, beating the keeper.

[SoftUnderbelly]

9. damn

knew i should be watching this! work to do though (apparently :o )

[ikri]

10. Half Time

Not exactly the best match of the tournament so far.

Neither team is really dominating the game & it's a very open game. Togo haven't been overwhelmed by the experience though so we could be seeing a real upset here.

[ikri]

11. Jean-Paul Abalo Sent Off & Korea Equalize

Second bookable offense for Abalo.

From the resulting free kick just outside the penalty area a great shot from Chun-Soo Lee results in an equalizer for Korea.

1-1

[ikri]

12. Korea take the lead

A shot by Jung-Hwan Ahn from a little outside the box beats the Togo 'keeper.

2-1 South Korea

[ikri]

13. All over

South Korea win 2-1.

They played a hell of lot better in the second half than they did in the first half, though they were helped immensely by Togo going down to 10 men early on in the second half.