{"id":11815,"date":"2011-01-10T21:49:43","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T05:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/10\/korea-republic-2-1-bahrain-2\/"},"modified":"2011-01-10T21:49:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T05:49:43","slug":"korea-republic-2-1-bahrain-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/10\/korea-republic-2-1-bahrain-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Korea Republic 2-1 Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/images.the-afc.com\/afc\/comps\/asian_cup\/2011\/finals\/300x200\/kor_bhr_action_01_3x2.jpg\" \/>AFC &#8211; DOHA, <strong>A goal in each half by Koo Ja-cheol steered Korea  Republic to a  dramatic 2-1 win over Bahrain in a Group C match of the  2011 AFC Asian  Cup Qatar 2011\u2122 at Al Gharafa Stadium on Monday. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Koo  gave the Taeguk Warriors the lead after 40 minutes and then  added a  second six minutes into the second half before Bahrain ensured a  tense  finish with Faouzi Aaish\u2019s 83rd minute penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Korea  Republic  attacked from the outset of the game and nearly opened the  scoring  after just six minutes when Lee Chung-yong sent a neat pass to  Park  Ji-sung, but the Manchester United midfielder\u2019s shot was straight  at  goalkeeper Mahmood Mansoor.<\/p>\n<p>The East Asians continued to look   the most likely to score and created their second chance of the game in   the 24th minute when Koo ran into the area before hitting a powerful   shot that was saved by Mansoor, who denied the same player just five   minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Next to threaten was Lee Chung-yong shortly after   the half hour when Ji Dong-won delivered a cross from the left for the   Bolton winger, who could only direct his header wide of the goal.<\/p>\n<p>A good run from Lee in the 35th minute led to another chance as he fed a pass for Park but his shot whistled just over the bar.<\/p>\n<p>But   there was only so long Bahrain could keep the Koreans at bay with Koo   making the breakthrough five minutes before the break. The Jeju United   midfielder had enough space and time to shoot from just outside the  area  and his effort took enough of a deflection off Abdulla Marzooqi to   leave Mansoor with no chance.<\/p>\n<p>It could have been 2-0 just  before  the break with Koo again the dangerman as the youngster tried  his luck  from distance but the ball flew over the bar.<\/p>\n<p>However,  the second  goal duly arrived after 51 minutes when Cha Du-ri\u2019s shot was  saved by  Mansoor but the ever-dangerous Koo was in the right place to  put the  ball into the empty net.<\/p>\n<p>With nothing to lose, Bahrain  went on  the attack in as the second half wore on and went close after  78 minutes  when Jaycee John sent a close-ranger header over the  crossbar.<\/p>\n<p>But  they grabbed a consolation with seven minutes  remaining when  second-half substitute Abdulla Al Dakeel was fouled  inside the area by  Kwak Tae-hwi. The Korean defender was subsequently  sent off and Aaish  scored from the resulting penalty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; DOHA, A goal in each half by Koo Ja-cheol steered Korea Republic to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":2284,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}