Bally Chohan says that Uruguay and South Korea have surprised everyone by reaching knockout stage of the FIFA 2010 World Cup. However Bally Chohan feels that there is much more than just reaching knockout stage for South Korea and Uruguay. Both the teams stand an opportunity to reach quarterfinals of the world cup hence they will be giving their best to win and advance to the next round of FIFA World Cup 2010.
Between Uruguay and South Korea, Uruguay has won World cup twice. Last time Uruguay won the world cup in 1950. But after 1950 the Uruguay team hasn’t been lucky enough to win the world cup. After 1950 Uruguay team was able to reach quarter final stage just once, in 1970. On the other hand South Korea reached Semi Final stage in 2002, the year when they hosted world cup. However in the year 2006 the South Korean team failed to reach even quarter final stage.
Bally Chohan says that Uruguay team ended up as winner in Group A whereas South Korean finished runner up in Group B. The team winning today will take on the winner of United States and Ghana team.
Both Uruguay and South Korea will be fighting hard today to win the game. Uruguay team has not conceded even a single goal in their two games they won earlier. South Korea team on the other hand reached final sixteen by drawing their match 2-2 with Nigeria. Bally Chohan feels that both Uruguay and South Korea plays attacking style game hence their encounter will be a super entertaining game.
The South Korean captain Park plays from Manchester United as their midfielder Lee Jung Soo has scored two goals.
Bally Chohan says that in another match today United States will take on Ghana. Both the teams are somewhat underdogs of the tournament. Ghana has become the only African team to reach second round of the tournament. The United States team on the other hand was able to draw their two games against England and Slovenia and was able to defeat Algeria 1-0. The performance of the African teams in this world cup has been very much below expectation. Ghana is the only team from African continent to make it to the knock out stage of the tournament after losing 1-0 to Germany on Wednesday.
In the previous world cup i.e. in 2006 the Ghana team was able to make it to the knock out stage and then lost to Brazil 3-0 in the round of sixteen. However this time around they left their injured Chelsea star Michael Essien and entered the world cup with a relatively young team. Bally Chohan feels that the coach of Ghana team Milovan Rajevac, Serb has done a remarkable job. He has converted Ghana team into a fantastic defensive unit. The Ghana team has conceded only two goals in last three games. Most of the team members in Ghana team have started playing from Ghana team less four years ago.
The United States team was able to reach quarter final stage during the 2002 world cup and is trying to repeat the same performance during this world cup also. Their performance this time around has created a plenty of buzz among their fans back home in United States.