South Korea kicked off their World Cup campaign in Group B with a convincing 2-0 win over a lackluster Greece side at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium.
It took the 2002 semi-finalists just seven minutes to open the scoring when Lee Jung-Soo stole in at the far post to side-foot home Ki Sung-Yong's free-kick from the left.
Greece fell further behind in the 52nd minute as Park Ji-Sung cashed in on a blunder from Loukas Vyntra to jink past the defence and neatly slide the ball past goalkeeper Alexandros Tzorvas.
Lineups:
South Korea: Jung Sung-Ryong; Cha Du-Ri, Cho Yong-Hyung, Lee Jung-Soo , Lee Young-Pyo; Kim Jung-Woo, Ki Sung-Yong (Kim Nam-Il, 74), Lee Chung-Yong (Kim Jae-Sung, 90), Park Ji-Sung, Yeom Ki-Hun, Park Chu-Young (Lee Seung-Ryul, 87)
Greece: Alexandros Tzorvas, Avraam Papadopoulos, Giourkas Seitaridis, Vassillis Torosidis, Loukas Vyntra, Giorgos Karagounis (Christos Patsatzoglou, 46), Konstantinos Katsouranis, Alexandros Tziolis, Angelos Charisteas (Pantelis Kapetanos, 61), Theofanis Gekas, Georgios Samaras (Dimitris Salpingidis, 59)
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It took the 2002 semi-finalists just seven minutes to open the scoring when Lee Jung-Soo stole in at the far post to side-foot home Ki Sung-Yong's free-kick from the left.
Greece fell further behind in the 52nd minute as Park Ji-Sung cashed in on a blunder from Loukas Vyntra to jink past the defence and neatly slide the ball past goalkeeper Alexandros Tzorvas.
Lineups:
South Korea: Jung Sung-Ryong; Cha Du-Ri, Cho Yong-Hyung, Lee Jung-Soo , Lee Young-Pyo; Kim Jung-Woo, Ki Sung-Yong (Kim Nam-Il, 74), Lee Chung-Yong (Kim Jae-Sung, 90), Park Ji-Sung, Yeom Ki-Hun, Park Chu-Young (Lee Seung-Ryul, 87)
Greece: Alexandros Tzorvas, Avraam Papadopoulos, Giourkas Seitaridis, Vassillis Torosidis, Loukas Vyntra, Giorgos Karagounis (Christos Patsatzoglou, 46), Konstantinos Katsouranis, Alexandros Tziolis, Angelos Charisteas (Pantelis Kapetanos, 61), Theofanis Gekas, Georgios Samaras (Dimitris Salpingidis, 59)
Statistics:
| Shots on target : | 6 | - | 2 |
| Shots off target : | 5 | - | 3 |
| Ball possession (%) : | 51 | - | 49 |
| Corner kicks : | 6 | - | 11 |
| Offsides : | 1 | - | 5 |
| Fouls : | 14 | - | 12 |
| Yellow cards : | 0 | - | 1 |
| Red cards : | 0 | - | 0 |
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