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South Korea 2-1 Japan - April 01, 1998 / Friendlies 1998

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Friendlies 1998 - Asia

Olympic Stadium - Séoul - South Korea

April 01, 1998

55 320

South Korea

2 - 1

Japan

(header) Sang-yoon Lee

40'

Sun-hong Hwang

72'

61'

Masashi Nakayama

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26' - Substitution Masami Iharais substituted by Norio Omura

40' - Goal Sang-yoon Lee40

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56' - Substitution Sang-hun Leeis substituted by Min-sung Lee56

61' - Goal Masashi Nakayama

65' - Substitution Tsuyoshi Kitazawais substituted by Masayuki Okano photo Shinji Ono

65' - Substitution Atsushi Yanagisawais substituted by Shinji Ono

68' - Substitution Yong-soo Choiis substituted by Do-hoon Kim68

72' - Goal Sun-hong Hwang72

74' - Substitution Naoki Somais substituted by Eisuke Nakanishi

78' - Substitution Myung-bo Hongis substituted by Sang-chul Yoo photo Ki-hyung Lee

78' - Substitution Do-keun Kimis substituted by Ki-hyung Lee78

84' - Substitution Sang-yoon Leeis substituted by Jong-soo Ko84

86' - Substitution Hiroshi Nanamiis substituted by Takashi Hirano

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

South Korea

2 - 1

Japan

South Korea Japan

Team line-ups

South Korea

B.-j. Kim

Byung-ji Kim

South Korea

B.date08/04/1970

Age27 years

H1m84

positionGoalkeeper

S.-h. Lee56

Sang-hun Lee

South Korea

B.date11/10/1975

Age22 years

H1m79

positionDefender

Hong78

Myung-bo Hong

South Korea

B.date12/02/1969

Age29 years

H1m85

positionCentral defender

T.-y. Kim

Tae-young Kim

South Korea

B.date08/11/1970

Age27 years

H1m78

positionLeft central defender

Do-keun Kim78

Do-keun Kim

South Korea

B.date02/03/1972

Age26 years

positionMidfield

Seok-ju Ha

South Korea

B.date20/02/1968

Age30 years

positionMidfield

S.-y. Choi

Sung-yong Choi

South Korea

B.date25/12/1973

Age24 years

H1m73

positionMidfield

Seo

Jung-won Seo

South Korea

B.date17/12/1970

Age27 years

H1m72

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

S.-y. Lee4084

Sang-yoon Lee

South Korea

B.date11/04/1969

Age28 years

H1m79

positionForward

Y.-s. Choi68

Yong-soo Choi

South Korea

B.date10/09/1973

Age24 years

H1m84

positionStriker

Hwang72

Sun-hong Hwang

South Korea

B.date14/07/1968

Age29 years

H1m83

positionForward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Byung-ji Kim		27	28	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Sang-hun Lee	56	22	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Myung-bo Hong	78	29	91	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Tae-young Kim		27	33	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Do-keun Kim	78	26	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Seok-ju Ha		30	78	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Sung-yong Choi		24	22	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Jung-won Seo		27	74	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Sang-yoon Lee	4084	28	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Yong-soo Choi	68	24	27	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Sun-hong Hwang	72	29	54	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.6 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Japan

Kawaguchi

Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi

Japan

B.date15/08/1975

Age22 years

H1m79

positionGoalkeeper

Soma74

Naoki Soma

Japan

B.date19/07/1971

Age26 years

H1m75

positionDefender

Ihara26

Masami Ihara

Japan

B.date18/09/1967

Age30 years

H1m82

positionDefender

Ichikawa

Daisuke Ichikawa

Japan

B.date14/05/1980

Age17 years

H1m81

positionDefender

Akita

Yutaka Akita

Japan

B.date06/08/1970

Age27 years

H1m80

positionDefender

Kitazawa65

Tsuyoshi Kitazawa

Japan

B.date10/08/1968

Age29 years

H1m70

positionMidfield

Nanami86

Hiroshi Nanami

Japan

B.date28/11/1972

Age25 years

H1m77

positionLeft central midfielder

Yamaguchi

Motohiro Yamaguchi

Japan

B.date29/01/1969

Age29 years

H1m77

positionMidfield

Nakata

Hidetoshi Nakata

Japan

B.date22/01/1977

Age21 years

H1m75

positionPlaymaker

Yanagisawa65

Atsushi Yanagisawa

Japan

B.date27/05/1977

Age20 years

H1m77

positionStriker

Nakayama61

Masashi Nakayama

Japan

B.date23/09/1967

Age30 years

H1m78

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi		22	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Naoki Soma	74	26	46	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Masami Ihara	26	30	113	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Daisuke Ichikawa		17	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Yutaka Akita		27	25	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Tsuyoshi Kitazawa	65	29	57	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Hiroshi Nanami	86	25	40	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Motohiro Yamaguchi		29	52	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Hidetoshi Nakata		21	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Atsushi Yanagisawa	65	20	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Masashi Nakayama	61	30	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.1 years

Average number of matches played for the team

			Age	Match num	Note
D	Min-sung Lee	56	24	25	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ki-hyung Lee	78	23	33	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Sang-chul Yoo	78	26	52	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Jong-soo Ko	84	19	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Do-hoon Kim	68	27	37	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

			Age	Match num	Note
D	Norio Omura	26	28	28	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Eisuke Nakanishi	74	24	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Takashi Hirano	86	23	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Shinji Ono	65	18	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Masayuki Okano	65	25	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Tae-young Kim

Min-sung Lee

OUT

Do-keun Kim

Jong-soo Ko

OUT

Sun-hong Hwang

Do-hoon Kim

OUT

Byung-ji Kim

Dong-myung Seo

OUT

Seok-ju Ha

Jung-hyuk Kim

OUT

Jung-won Seo

Young-il Choi

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Atsushi Yanagisawa

Kazuyoshi Miura

OUT

Daisuke Ichikawa

Akira Narahashi

OUT

Tsuyoshi Kitazawa

Toshihiro Hattori

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Bum-kun Cha

Success rate in this team:

65 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

65 %

Cha vs Japan

2 victories

1 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on April 01, 1998

Cha vs Okada

1 victory

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on April 01, 1998

Manager

Age

Match num

Takeshi Okada

Success rate in this team:

56 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

41 %

Okada vs South Korea

2 victories

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on April 01, 1998

Okada vs Cha

2 victories

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on April 01, 1998

Referee

Jingyin Yu

1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	South Korea1 match	General total	Japan2 matches	1 victory	0 draw	1 loss
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	South Korea1 match	Season total	Japan1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on April 01, 1998					Latest figure on April 01, 1998

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Key figures

Tsuyoshi Kitazawa played his game number 10 vs South Korea in his professional career

South Korea keeps its 8 matches with at least one goal scored at home in Friendlies running (since 21/02/1995). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 01/08/1985 (7 matches)

South Korea keeps its 10 matches with at least one goal conceded vs Japan running (since 29/08/1992). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 26/10/1985 (5 matches)

Read the next 17 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VSouth Korea 4-1 Tajikistan24/08/1997

DSouth Korea 0-0 China30/08/1997

VSouth Korea 3-0 Kazakhstan06/09/1997

VSouth Korea 2-1 Uzbekistan12/09/1997

VSouth Korea 3-0 United Arab Emirates04/10/1997

LSouth Korea 0-2 Japan01/11/1997

Overall

VThailand 0-2 South Korea29/01/1998

DEgypt 1-1 South Korea31/01/1998

VNew Zealand 0-1 South Korea07/02/1998

LAustralia 1-0 South Korea11/02/1998

LJapan 2-1 South Korea01/03/1998

VSouth Korea 2-1 China04/03/1998

Current form

Away

VOman 0-1 Japan23/03/1997

DUnited Arab Emirates 0-0 Japan19/09/1997

DKazakhstan 1-1 Japan04/10/1997

DUzbekistan 1-1 Japan11/10/1997

VSouth Korea 0-2 Japan01/11/1997

VAustralia 0-3 Japan15/02/1998

Overall

VSouth Korea 0-2 Japan01/11/1997

VJapan 5-1 Kazakhstan08/11/1997

VIran 2-3 Japan16/11/1997

VAustralia 0-3 Japan15/02/1998

VJapan 2-1 South Korea01/03/1998

LJapan 0-2 China07/03/1998

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Loosing streak	1	0
Unbeaten streak	0	1
Winless streak	1	0
Drawless streak	4	4
Scoring streak	0	2
Goalless streak	1	0
Conceding streak	1	3

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	2	0
Loosing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	6	0
Winless streak	0	1
Drawless streak	2	6
Scoring streak	4	0
Goalless streak	0	1
Conceding streak	0	2
Invincibility streak	2	0

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

4	Number of games (Competition total)	3
0	Number of games (Home / Away)	1
2	Victories (Competition total)	2
0	Victories (Home / Away)	1
0	Draws (Competition total)	0
0	Draws (Home / Away)	0
2	Losses (Competition total)	1
0	Losses (Home / Away)	0

Goals

4	Goals scored (Competition total)	5
0	Goals scored (Home / Away)	3
4	Goals conceded (Competition total)	3
0	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	0
1	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.67
0	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	3
1	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1
0	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	0

Betting aid

2	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	2
0	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	1
1	Clean sheets (Competition total)	1
0	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	1
1	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	1
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	0
2	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	1
0	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	0
0	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	3-0 (1 times)

Bookings

4	Yellow cards (Competition total)	4
0	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	2
0	Red cards (Competition total)	1
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	1

Key players

Sang-yoon Lee	2 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	2 goals	Takashi Hirano
-		Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	2 goals	Takashi Hirano
-		Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	1 penalty	Hidetoshi Nakata
-		Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)	1 penalty	Hidetoshi Nakata
Sang-yoon Lee	2 goals during the last 2 matches	The fittest player	2 goals during the last 3 matches	Takashi Hirano

Historical head to head

Home

24 matches

20 v

1 d

3 l

47 gf

15 ga

Away

29 matches

12 v

10 d

7 l

44 gf

34 ga

Neutral ground

12 matches

5 v

6 d

1 l

21 gf

8 ga

Total

65 matches

37 v

17 d

11 l

112 gf

57 ga

Historical head to head

Home

29 matches

7 v

10 d

12 l

34 gf

44 ga

Away

24 matches

3 v

1 d

20 l

15 gf

47 ga

Neutral ground

12 matches

1 v

6 d

5 l

8 gf

21 ga

Total

65 matches

11 v

17 d

37 l

57 gf

112 ga

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 0	July 19, 1978
Home	3 - 0	March 21, 1982

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 1	September 28, 1974
Away	2 - 0	November 01, 1997

Latest head to head

March 01, 1998 - Rencontres amicales 1998

Japan

2 - 1

South Korea logo South Korea

November 01, 1997 - Eliminatoires Coupe du Monde - Zone Asie 1998

South Korea

0 - 2

Japan

September 28, 1997 - Eliminatoires Coupe du Monde - Zone Asie 1998

Japan

1 - 2

South Korea logo South Korea

May 21, 1997 - Rencontres amicales 1997

Japan

1 - 1

South Korea logo South Korea

February 26, 1995 - Rencontres amicales 1995

Japan

2 - 2

South Korea logo South Korea

Best historical scorers against Japan

Sun-hong Hwang	3 goals	1990 - 1994
Sang-chul Yoo	2 goals	1994 - 1997
Ki-hyung Lee	2 goals	1995 - 1995
Jung-won Seo	1 goal	1997 - 1997
Sang-yoon Lee	1 goal	1998 - 1998
Seok-ju Ha	1 goal	1991 - 1991

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 27/07/1990. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against South Korea

Kazuyoshi Miura	3 goals	1993 - 1997
Motohiro Yamaguchi	2 goals	1995 - 1997
Masashi Nakayama	2 goals	1992 - 1998
Hisashi Kurosaki	1 goal	1995 - 1995
Masahiro Fukuda	1 goal	1995 - 1995
Wagner Lopes	1 goal	1997 - 1997

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 27/07/1990. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Japan

Jeong-woon Ko	9 matches	1991 - 1997
Seok-ju Ha	7 matches	1991 - 1997
Sang-chul Yoo	7 matches	1994 - 1998
Yong-soo Choi	6 matches	1995 - 1998
Jung-won Seo	5 matches	1990 - 1997
Myung-bo Hong	5 matches	1990 - 1997

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 26/10/1988. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs South Korea

Masami Ihara	14 matches	1988 - 1998
Tsuyoshi Kitazawa	9 matches	1991 - 1998
Tetsuji Hashiratani	9 matches	1989 - 1995
Kazuyoshi Miura	8 matches	1991 - 1997
Shigetatsu Matsunaga	8 matches	1988 - 1995
Masahiro Fukuda	7 matches	1990 - 1995