{"id":1463,"date":"2024-01-31T03:34:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T03:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2024-01-31T03:34:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T03:34:35","slug":"saudi-arabia-coach-roberto-mancini-walks-off-while-losing-to-jurgen-klinsmann-south-korea-in-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=1463","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia coach Roberto Mancini walks off while losing to Jurgen Klinsmann, South Korea in penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-253f0cad>Saudi Arabia coach Roberto Mancini walked off before the end of his team&#8217;s losing penalty shootout against South Korea in the Asian Cup on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-253f0cad>The Italian had seen his team dramatically relinquish a 1-0 lead in the ninth minute of stoppage time at Education City Stadium, to force extra time, and then miss two spot kicks in the shootout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-253f0cad>Mancini turned and headed to the locker room without watching Hwang Hee-chan convert the decisive kick that saw South Korea advance to the quarterfinals 4-2 on penalties and set up a clash with Australia on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-253f0cad>&#8220;When you lose a penalty (shootout) you are sad because it is difficult, but this is football,&#8221; Mancini said. &#8220;We have to accept this. I am very happy with my players because they played a very good game against one of the best teams in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-253f0cad>Saudi Arabia had led the round-of-16 match through Abdullah Radif&#8217;s goal in the 46th. But Cho Gue-sung sent the game into extra time with a late header.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-253f0cad>In the shootout South Korea goalkeeper Jo Hyeon-woo saved penalties from Sami Al Naji and Abdulrahman Ghareeb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-253f0cad>Mancini was aiming to win his second major international title as a coach after leading Italy to triumph in the European Championship in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-253f0cad>Fellow European soccer great Jurgen Klinsmann is coach of South Korea and could add the Asian Cup to the CONCACAF Gold Cup he won with the U.S. in 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-253f0cad><i>Reporting by The Associated Press.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-253f0cad><i><strong>[Want great stories delivered right to your inbox? <\/strong><\/i><i><strong><u>Create or log in to your FOX Sports account, follow leagues, teams and players to receive a personalized newsletter daily<\/u><\/strong><\/i><i><strong>.]<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia coach Roberto Mancini walked off before the end of his team&#8217;s losing penalty shootout against South Korea in the Asian Cup on Tuesday. The Italian had seen his team dramatically relinquish a 1-0 lead in the ninth minute of stoppage time at Education City Stadium, to force extra time, and then miss two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}