3rd/4th Place Play-off

South Korea v Turkey

Saturday 29th June 2002 12.00 BST, Daegu



South Korea 2 Turkey 3
Lee Eul-Yong 9, Song Chong-Gug 93; Sukur 1, Ilham 13, 32

a better pic later perhaps

More was being made about Dubya's colonic investigations that this game. I mean, does anybody care whether they finish 3rd or 4th? These two teams did! This was more like it - a beautiful match! Both teams played without the cautionary shackles of fear and it was lovely to watch. How ironic though, that the worst player in the tournament (possibly in any world cup ever) should have his name written in the history books, by scoring his goal after 10.8 seconds of the game!! I wanted Ilham to score 7 or 8, and thus rob R or R of the Golden Boot - but, alas 'twern't to be. Nice to see Song Chong Gug have his name in lights - I thought he had a very good tournament. Anyway, "tay a mingo" to Korea and congratulations to Turkey!! A great pity they couldn't have done this to the Brazilians.



Teams

South Korea: Woon-Jae Lee, Hong (Tae-Young Kim 46),Min-Sung Lee, Yoo, Yong-Pyo Lee, Eul-Young Lee (Cha 64),Chun-Soo Lee, Park, Song, Ahn, Seol (Tae-Uk Choi 79).

Booked: Eul-Young Lee.

Turkey: Rustu, Akyel, Korkmaz, Alpay, Ergun, Davala (Okan 75),Basturk (Tayfur 85), Tugay, Emre (Unsal 41), Sukur, Mansiz.

Booked: Tugay, Rustu.

Attendance: 63,483

Referee: Saad Kameel Mane (Kuwait).





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