Lebanon hosts South Korea in round 5 of the second stage of the Asian World Cup qualification. The match will be played on Thursday, November 14th at Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium (Beirut)
Perhaps the Lebanon national team can still claim the second place, although it lost a very important match to the North Koreans (0-2) at the very start of the qualification, and they are direct competitors of the Lebanese for the second line in the group. What are the chances of the Lebanese team in matches with the South Koreans? Well, if they lost 0-2 to North Korea, they should lose to the Southerners for sure. In general, the Cedars (it is a nickname of the Lebanon national team) are not considered the national team, which can offer serious competition for the tickets to top tournaments even on their continent. The men of the Romanian specialist Liviu Ciobotariu looked rather hard even against the background of the Turkmen team with whom they played a month ago. Lebanon beat Turkmenistan with a modest 2-1 score, although many expected a more confident victory. There was a lopsided victory over the team of Sri Lanka (3-0), but it was the only solid match performed by the Cedars in the current qualification.
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South Koreans feel like kings in this group. They can even afford to sponsor neighbors from the north, giving them one point in the head-to-head match that ended in a goalless draw. We all understand that if the southerners wanted to win, they would take the northern guys with a 3-0 score or even more confidently. But South Korea didn’t want to quarrel with touchy neighbors. If we look at the remaining matches in the current qualification, everything is more than good for the men of Paulo Bento. They beat the Turkmen and Sri Lanka with a total score of 10-0. The Lebanese national team is surely not a threat to the Koreans either. They met twice in the qualification for the last World Cup, and the Koreans celebrated the victory twice (3-0 and 1-0). Korea is one of the strongest teams on the continent, and the task of reaching the next round has not been accomplished yet, so the team will surely cope with the Cedars without any problems.
There is nothing special to think about. Korea is an obvious favorite. And after a circus 0-0 draw with the neighbors, the Tigers will surely take three points from the Lebanese. I chose a clear victory of the Koreans.
Prediction for the match: South Korea to win
