Paulo Bento, South Korea’s soccer coach, apologized for being sent off at the end of the match with Ghana at the 2022 World Cup, but maintains the criticism that led him to miss the match with Portugal on Friday.
“I’d like to tell my players that I’m sorry. I didn’t have the best reaction to the situation. I’m human. I’m not insensitive. I think I’m a person with common sense and I think the man who came from the Premier League. I respect him for the tremendous effort we were making and he showed inconsistency. I apologize to my players, because it was not a good example,” he lamented.
Already in stoppage time in the game for the second day of Group H, and losing 3-2, referee Anthony Taylor awarded a corner in favor of the Asian team, but then the game ended: incredulous, Paulo Bento and several footballers they surrounded the field. match referee, and the former Portuguese coach crossed the line and was sent off.
Despite not being able to go to the bench in the decisive challenge with Portugal, Paulo Bento guarantees that he has “competent and capable” assistants to achieve the necessary victory, even so dependent on third parties to guarantee classification.
With two games completed in Group H, Portugal leads with six points, already qualified, followed by Ghana with three points, while South Korea and Uruguay have only one.
“They have been working with me all this time. It won’t be exactly the same as me being on the bench, but (the assistants) are good enough to do the job,” stressed Paulo Bento, who will not be able to have any kind of communication with his attendees.
Paulo Bento assumes that it will not be the “ideal solution”, however he remembers that everyone in the team knows what has been trained in the selection.
“Football is like life: you have to accept a situation like this and move on. You have to try to keep up the good work and learn from the mistakes of the last few games. Against a team like Portugal you have to give everything “Our limit. The ability to organize ourselves is what has led us to leave a good image,” he added.
Central defender Kim Min-Jae and forward Hee-Chan are in doubt due to physical problems.
Source: TSF
