If Son Heung-min (32, Tottenham) scores in the match against Palestine, a pleasant record will follow.
The South Korean national soccer team, led by head coach Hong Myung-bo, will play the sixth Group B match against Palestine in the third Asian qualifying round for the 2026 FIFA World Cup at Amman International Stadium in Amman, Jordan, at 11 p.m. on the 19th (Korea time).
FIFA changed the venue for South Korea’s away match against Palestine to Jordan because it judged the situation to be unstable due to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Korea ranks first in Group B with four wins, one draw and 13 points. Palestine ranks sixth with the lowest with two draws and three losses and two points.
In the third Asian qualifying round, a total of 18 teams will be divided into three groups of six teams. The top two teams from each group will advance to the World Cup finals.
Hong Myung-bo, who moved to Jordan after winning Game 5 against Kuwait, which is a turning point in 10 games, will take a long shot at advancing to the World Cup finals for the 11th consecutive time if he overpowers Palestine.
Son Heung-min, who recently recovered from his injury and announced his robustness, is expected to take the lead in offense in the match against Palestine.
He started the match against Kuwait, induced a foul from the opponent team to score a penalty kick, and was replaced by Bae Joon-ho of Stoke City in the 18th minute of the second half to finish the match first. The substitution was made in consideration of Son Heung-min, who suffered thigh injury.
Son scored his 50th A-match goal in the match against Kuwait, tying with Hwang Sun-hong, the current coach of the Daejeon Hana Citizen, the most goals scored by 카지노사이트 a Korean male player in an A-match. At the same time, he is close to the record of Cha Bum-keun, a former coach of the Korean national team (58 goals), who ranks first in all time. If Son scores another goal in the match against Palestine, he will become the lone second in this category.
Son will also set a new A-match goal record. Son has scored nine goals in this year’s A-match. This is the same record as the most goals scored by an individual player in 2015.
Son Heung-min will reach double-digit goals in his first year of career if he scores against Palestine.