Playing with Iran is a challenge for us / The victory against Syria was fair

Mizan News Agency – Following a 2-0 victory over a South Korean national football team against Syria in the third round of the Group A matches of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers in Asia, Paulo Bento said: “It was a fair victory, but it should have been achieved with more difference.” I’m happy, but I was a little disappointed because we couldn’t score more goals.

The head coach of the South Korean national football team added: “We had a good performance in the first half of the game against Syria and we could have determined the fate of the game.” In the second half, we could not do our job as well as in the first half. We had two scoring opportunities that we used. We had good control over the game, but we have to be more effective to reach the desired result sooner than the last minutes.

“All games are important,” Bento said of South Korea’s next game against Iran. Iran is a good team. They also have a lot of good players and they are physically strong. There are capable and experienced players in this team. Playing with Iran will be a challenge for us. The most important thing in the current situation is to help the South Korean players to recover. At the same time, we determine the tactics of the next game. This will be a difficult game for both us and Iran.