South Korea beat Saudi Arabia 4-2 in a penalty shootout to advance to the Asian Cup quarter-finals after an exhilarating last-16 tie ended 1-1 in additional time at Training Metropolis Stadium in Qatar on Tuesday.
After South Korea’s Cho Gue-sung equalised in second-half added time to cancel Abdullah Radif’s opener, Sami Al-Najei and Abdulrahman Ghareeb had their penalties saved to ship South Korea by means of to the final eight, the place they are going to play Australia.
In a goalless first half, Saudi Arabia hit the crossbar twice from a nook whereas Son Heung-min was the one South Korean participant to check the keeper with two tame efforts on objective.
Nonetheless, Saudi Arabia took the lead within the first minute after the restart when halftime substitute Abdullah Radif made an instantaneous affect, stealing in behind the defence and discovering the far nook of the web from skipper Salem Al-Dawsari’s go.
With Saudi Arabia having one foot within the quarterfinals, South Korea lastly breached the Saudi defence within the ninth minute of added time when their stress paid off and Cho Gue-sung headed dwelling from shut vary to drive additional time.
South Korea then transformed all their spot kicks to advance. However they are going to have solely two days to get well, with their quarterfinal conflict towards 2015 champions Australia going down on Friday.
