The national team of the Republic of Korea with a victory started in the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC Second Round, defeating the team of Turkmenistan in Ashgabat - 2:0. After the game, the head coach of the Korean team, 50-year-old famous Portuguese specialist Paulo Jorge Gomes Bento answered questions from journalists.

– The Korean team won against the team of Turkmenistan, scoring only two goals. What is the reason for such poor performance? Are there any disappointments about the quality of the game of your wards?

– Not the frustrations. I think we should do analyze all the game.  Try to find reasons why in the first part we played in the way we played and why we played in second part. The first half was very good, with the good circulations, and good game positioning, and we had good chances to score more goals. Maybe we did in second half some different and in the second half we did not play so good as in the first half. We made some easy mistakes, allowing some transitions to the opponent. I think they didn’t have more than one chance, to make goal in first part of game. But in second half we did not control the game as we did in first part of the game. I think the result was fear, but I think we should find the reason why we played different in second half of the game.

– What is your impressions from national team of Turkmenistan?

– They are the team played as we expected. So a lot of players behind of the ball trying to the counter attack, using the direct game hoping the speed of the player number seven. Before as I said we controlled the first half of the game, we had a ball and we didn’t lose the ball easily. The second half was more difficult, we did some mistakes and allow them to use the best characteristics they have.  This is what I think about Turkmenistan's national team and the game.

–  In your opinion, could your strikers better complete the attacks?

– Not about striker, I do not like talking much about cases. I prefer talk about scores of matches. What I can say in the first half we had more than one chance to score. It is true that in the first half we were not so effective if we talk about that chances we had and we did not score. The second half we did not create so many chances to score. It is important we scored through the free kick. In order to put for a team little bit count. It is true that we should be more effective, because we have a capacity to create a more score usually.

– What an impression made Kim Shinwook in the second half of the game? What did you expected of him and are you satisfied of his results?

– He had a good performance during the training camp. In that moment when we took decisions to put him in the pitch the idea was try to play as much as possible by the corridors. Because in the middle we had some difficulties to make some combinations. The idea was after attract of opponent to the middle, after that cross to have a player with abilities in cross. That was the idea.