trouserdog78

Both of these sides will probably be targetting second place in a group that Mexico are likely to top. Therefore, not losing will become more important than winning in teh first round of matches. There's not a great deal to choose between them either. South Korea are the higher ranked country, but they're a difficult team to get a handle on in terms of form. A 0-4 defeat to Ivory Coast in March and a 0-5 loss to Brazil last October point to a team who are going to struggle against more powerful opposition, but they haven't played many European teams recently. The nearest opposition to Czechia they've faced in recent months were Austria (they lost 0-1). Czechia are solid European opposition and they've drawn quite afew games against similar standard countries to themselves: both of their play-off games, against Ireland and Denmark, ended 2-2, and they also managed a 0-0 draw v Croatia. They're not flashy by any means, but I can see them providing the sort of test that South Korea might struggle with. I'm expecting a cagey game here: 0-0 or 1-1 being the final score.