One of the most interesting battles of 2019 Asian Cup round of 16 matches is scheduled to take place on Tuesday 22 January when South Korea to meet Bahrain in the second last game of knockout stage. The match will kick off at 5:00 PM as per local watch and will be played at Rashid stadium in Dubai.

Match Details

Start Time: 17:00 local time, 16:00 Bahrain Time, 18:30 IST, 8:00 EST
Fixture: South Korea vs Bahrain
Venue: Rashid Stadium, Dubai

TV Channels List

• India: Star Sports
• South Korea: SBS, KBS, MBC
• Australia: Fox Sports
• Afghanistan: Lemar TV
• China: CCTV, Star Sports
• Japan: TV Asahi
• Qatar: AlKass
• Syria: Syria Sport TV
• Thailand: Channel 7
• Middle East & Africa: beIN Sports

Match Preview

Tournament favorites South Korea hasn’t lost single group match in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup and team coming into knockouts by defeating China PR, Kyrgyzstan and Philippines in the group round games. Other side Bahrain secured third place in the group stage table and they were on the top position among the groups to be placed on 3rd position.

South Korea won first two events of Asian Cup back in 1956 and 1960 and team will look to repeat the glory in this year’s competition. But to achieve that they need to play well in the knockout stage matches. Bahrain is not among the top sides in the championship but they can really surprise opposition with their strategy and field work.

Bahrain were terrific in the last group game against India where they beat Blue Tigers in the last minutes to enter in the round of 16. BAF (Bahrain Football Association) vice-president for technical affairs Shaikh Khalid bin Salman Al Khalifa is hopeful of team doing well against South Korea and he believes that team can beat South Korea to make country proud.

“They have defeated top teams like former World Cup champions Germany at the 2018 World Cup in Russia, but we are not unduly daunted. Our qualification from Group ‘A’ proves that we are capable of matching the best teams. We want to take another step forward and are very motivated to achieve our goals. The chances are equal between our team and South Korea specially when it comes to knock out stage, so whoever performs well will win,” Shaikh Khalid said.

If we analysis head to head contest between two sides, definitely South Korea has upper hand with 10 wins. Four matches ended at draw meanwhile Bahrain managed to beat South Korea twice. In Asian Cup, the record as equal as both teams beat each other once.

South Korean team depends a lot on their star players Kim Min-jae and Hwang Ui-Jo who have been tremendous for the national side in the competition so far. Both footballers have been star and scored goals in the group matches. Meanwhile Bahrain to depend on Rashid who scored brilliant goal versus India to lead team into knockouts.

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Predicted-XIs

South Korea

Kim Min-jae, Kim Seung-gyu, Kim Moon-hwan, Kim Young-Gwon, Kim Jin-su, Hwang In-beom, Jung Woo-young, Hwang Hee-chand, Lee Chung-yong, Son Heung-min, Hwang Ui-Jo

Bahrain

Sayed Shubbar Alawi, Hamad Al-Shamsan, Sayed Redha Isa, Waleed Al Hayam, Ahmed Juma, Abdulwahab Al-Safi, Sayed Dhiya Saeed, Ali Madan, Kamil Al Aswad, Jamal Rashid, Mohamed Al Romaihi

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