Home teams have a couple advantages...
1: The hosting country gets serious funds to perform well
2: homecrowd
3: accustomed to the climate, food, etc
4: No or very little traveling
Korea got Guus Hiddink...which is a very good coach...check his
stats..
Korea in this case you can see they donīt have the individual
talent and skills to make a very good technical soccer squad.
After the first match there was NOTHING for them to lose.
They run, fight, attach for each and every square inch of grass
and are always hunting for the ball..
The coach knew that skills were not enough to win a match
therefore he drilled their players and focussed on physical fitness
I have not seen a single team in this WC that can keep the pace
that Korea is playing at.....These guys have the lungs of horses.
That combined with a bit of luck and enough willpower always
results in a dangerous team. Yes they need some luck with
scoring a goal but fed by the success in previous matches
these guys feel like they are having wings.
DynaMite
