Prediction, Odds & Betting tips for South Korea vs. Ghana | Group Stage, World Cup Qatar 2022
Prediction, Odds & Betting tips for South Korea vs. Ghana | Group Stage, World Cup Qatar 2022
South Korea and Ghana should bring one extremely interesting matchup as both sides aim to reach the knockout stage in a very nasty group with Portugal and Uruguay. Whoever wins here will have solid prospects of reaching its goal, though we need to say that the Korean side is in a bit better position because they managed to stay unbeaten against Uruguay. Ghana lost to Portugal, but showed extremely good effort and was short of making a surprise and staying unbeaten as well.
South Korea
We’ve seen a solid performance by the Koreans against Uruguay. They didn’t threaten too much, but on the other side, neither did Uruguay, who had one very good chance and nothing more. It is interesting that there were no shots on goal in this game, which tells that the defenses led the way.
This was the third consecutive event for the Koreans in which they didn’t allow a goal, meaning that the back line reached its top form at best possible time. All the players from the Asian team were very focused and disciplined, overcrowding the area with the ball and not allowing the rivals to catch the rhythm.
When South Korea plays, we don’t see too many goals, even though this unit used to participate in high-scoring events. The past three were with one or no goals at all.
Ghana
With a little more luck, Ghana would reach one point against the Portuguese unit, but the Africans didn’t utilize a big mistake of the rival’s goalkeeper in the final moments of the game. They now need to forget that games as soon as possible and stop lamenting.
A fantastic second half with five goals was impressive, and the battle that Ghana put up was as well. The Black Stars play open and offensive football, unlike most African teams, and they are willing to enter an open exchange of blows with any team in the world.
In this matchup we expect them to be even more aggressive and offensive, and we should see them much more reckless in some situations.
South Korea: Kim Seung-gyu; Kim Moon-hwan, Kim Young-gwon, Kim Min-jae, Kim Jin-su; Jung Woo-Young, Hwang In-beom, Lee Jae-sung; Hwang Hee-chan, Son Heung-min, Hwang Ui-jo
Ghana: Ati Zigi; Lamptey, Amartey, Djiku, Baba; Partey, Abdul Samed; Sulemana, Kudus, J. Ayew; Williams
Since 2006 these two nations have played four friendly international matches, and the result in the series is 3-1 for Ghana. Each of their games was with three or more goals, and three were with both units scoring.
Ghana has to attack, and that’s why we think that the game should bring plenty of goals. The ultimate pick here would be over 2.5 scores.
Our verdict: Over 2.5 goals