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Against the run of play, Czechia are ahead!
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Not the greatest half of football we will experience this World Cup.
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The second match of the 2026 World Cup is under way…
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Czechia will also line up in a 3-4-3 with Alexandr Sojka handed a competitive debut alongside star man Tomáš Souček in midfield. The 23 year old was only called up for the first time for the pre-tournament friendlies.
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1 Matěj Kovář; 6 Štěpán Chaloupek, 4 Robin Hranáč, 7 Ladislav Krejčí; 5 Vladimir Coufal, 22 Tomáš Souček, 24 Alexandr Sojka 20 Jaroslav Zelený; 17 Lukáš Provod, 15 Pavel Šulc, 10 Patrik Schick.
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The Taeguk Warriors line up as expected in a 3-4-3 spearheaded by captain and chief goalscorer Son Heung-min.
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1 Kim Seung-gyu, 3 Lee Gi-hyuk, 4 Kim Min-jae, 2 Lee Han-beom, 22 Seol Young-woo, 6 Hwang In-beom, 8 Paik Seung-ho, 13 Lee Tae-seok, 19 Lee Kang-in, 10 Lee Jae-sung, 7 Son Heung-min.
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Hello everybody and welcome to live coverage of the second match of the 2026 World Cup between South Korea and Czechia. Kick-off in this Group A clash at Estadio Guadalajara is 8pm local time (10pm EST / 3am BST / 12pm AEST).
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Following Shakira’s shimmies, three red cards, and the fanatical hosts welcoming us all to the 2026 World Cup with a celebrated victory, the second of the tournament’s 104 matches looks set to be a more muted affair. It features two sides in indifferent form with modest expectations opening their campaigns during the graveyard shift at the competition’s second smallest venue.
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South Korea arrive with plenty of World Cup pedigree but confidence dented by a couple of friendly hammerings. This is their 12th visit to the finals (an Asian record) and their 11th in succession (the fifth best active streak). They’ve won at least one match at five of the past six tournaments, progressing out of the group phase on three occasions, including in Qatar. But a 5-0 defeat to Brazil last year and a 4-0 trouncing by Ivory Coast in March has tempered ambitions.
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Son Heung-min remains the focal point but the near-34 year old is no longer the devastating attacking force of his prime and has yet to find the back of the net in this season’s MLS. Other household names include Paris Saint-Germain playmaker Lee Kang-in, and Bayern Munich man mountain Kim Min-jae. Both are regular starters for their clubs in domestic competitions but are forced to settle for places on the bench in the Champions League.
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Czechia return to the finals for the first time since 2006 and it’s only their second appearance since the break-up of Czechoslovakia. They qualified by the narrowest of margins, winning consecutive playoff penalty shootouts.
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Patrik Schick is the standout, the Bayer Leverkusen striker averaging a goal every other game at international level. Tomáš Souček is prominent in midfield, and Vladimír Coufal is important on the right. Both will be familiar to fans of West Ham United.
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At 74, Miroslav Koubek becomes the oldest coach in World Cup history tonight, but he will hold that record for barely two days, when 78 year old Dick Advocaat takes his seat in the Curaçao dugout.
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I’ll be back shortly with team news and more preview content. Please feel free to keep me company while I’m around. The address is jonathan.howcroft.freelance@theguardian.com.
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Key events
69 mins: The hydration advert break comes at a good time for me, as after that goal South Korea made a double change with Son Heung-min making way for Oh Hyeon-gyu. Eom Ji-sung is also on the field for Lee Tae-seok.
67 mins: Back to the midfield pass-and-move for Korea. Hwang In-beom is at the heart of it, and just like his earlier opportunity on the right he ghosts into space in the left channel, picked out by a sumptuous through-ball. He still has plenty to do though but as he drifts into the box he shapes to shoot on his left, drags the ball back, bounces three Czechs to the deck and clips a right-footed effort into the far corner with a shot so gentle it seems to move in slow motion until it dribbles over the line. Excellent finish and Korea are deservedly back in this.
GOAL! South Korea 1-1 Czechia (Hwang In-beom, 67)
The equaliser didn’t take long, and it is richly deserved.
64 mins: A few passages of broken play following the goal and the substitutions, which suits Czechia, who will not be happy to defend deep and keep Korea at arm’s length.
62 mins: And now Czechia replace their entire forward line in a triple substitution. On come Adam Hložek, Tomáš Chorý, and Michal Sadílek.
61 mins: Korea make an immediate change with Hwang Hee-chan replacing Lee Jae-sung.
60 mins: Football eh? Korea have dominated possession and shown the more technically, but it’s Czechia who have taken their opportunity. That was a brilliant set-piece. Credit where it’s due.
59 mins: Of course it’s a header from a set-piece, and this is as pure as they come. An absolute rocket of a long throw from the edge of the box on the right, fizzing over the Korean defender at the near post and onto the forehead of the onrushing Ladislav Krejčí who powers home from six yards out. Brutal and effective.
GOAL! South Korea 0-1 Czechia (Krejčí, 59)
Against the run of play, Czechia are ahead!
57 mins: If Korea don’t find a goal here they will feel like this is three points that got away against a side there for the taking.
55 mins: Kovar denies Son again! Textbook Korean pass and move through midfield from Hwang In-beom to Lee Jae-sung who eases the ball through to Son but as he shapes to shoot on the edge of the six-yard box Kovar is out quickly to smother the effort at source a la starfish Peter Schmeichel. The corner is flicked away and Korea recycle from halfway.
54 mins: Korea are now dominating possession, keeping the ball away from the increasingly conservative Czechs.
53 mins: Schick is starting to get frustrated with how little change he’s getting from Kim and the poor service he’s receiving from his colleagues. It’s been a long lonely night for the Bayer Leverkusen striker so far.
51 mins: Korea have resumed where they left off before the break, asserting themselves in defence, working the ball neatly in midfield, and using Son’s ability to turn in the final third and drive towards goal.
49 mins: Kovar double save! Czechia drop far too deep and put no pressure on the Korean midfield as they pick their way slowly through the lines until Hwang In-beom can ghost in behind and shoot across goal from the edge of the box. His drive is close enough for Kovar to parry – he should claim it or push it away from danger – but instead he just blocks it into the path of Lee Jae-sung but his slide is repelled by the recovering keeper.
48 mins: Czechia earn a corner on the left. Coufal delivers an inswinger dangerously, dipping just past the near post, but with the ball bouncing it’s a Korean boot first to it to hack clear.
47 mins: Shick and Kim have a right old tussle on halfway in an 80s throwback. Again it’s a demonstration of Korea’s fortitude.
46 mins: We’re back under way in Guadalajara. No changes from either side at the break. Even more obvious empty seats in the posh sections.
Ok, nearly time for the second half. Just time to squeeze in this column from Pablo Iglesias Maurer who was at the Azteca for the opening match.
They broke into song at the final whistle, serenading the team, and each other, with a deafening rendition of Cielito Lindo. It was a beautiful scene. By the time fans started spilling out of the Azteca’s giant portals and into the surrounding streets, much of the strife between protesters and police had died down. It will surely return soon: Mexico’s social and economic problems will not be solved by football. To those in the Azteca on Thursday, El Tri did at least provide a respite.
OPTIMISM ALERT. Here’s Jim Denvir:
“There’s so much to hate about this World Cup. It’s the seventh World Cup I can remember and I don’t think I’ve ever been less excited about it starting. I live in the US, really have no interest in trying to go to any games given the insane price gouging and the disorganization around the stadiums and transport.
But I switched this game on and my first thought was “I really want to go and see a match in this stadium sometime in my life”. I started with no real preference as to who wins but found myself supporting Korea, just because I prefer their style of football. So I have to ask. Is football going to win out despite everything? Is the love of the game going to be enough to overcome all the negatives? For the first time, I actually believe that’s possible.”
As I said off the top, I think this is the most interesting stadium in the tournament and I would gladly shell out a few bucks to watch Chivas de Guadalajara create an atmosphere worth of the volcanic design.
Plenty of correspondence on the subject of hydration breaks, as you might expect.
“Advertisers are NEVER going to give that time back. Football is now a 4 quarter affair. Halftimes will be headed to 20 minutes soon after,” predicts Erik Liekoski.
“This isn’t so much a football match as it is a corporate event,” bemoans Doug Green.
“I’m around long enough to remember concerns in the lead-up to USA’94 that US TV companies would dictate that the games be split into 4 quarters to accommodate lucrative ad-breaks,” Paul Keane offers. “Showing remarkably uncommon backbone, FIFA said the games would be standard regulation halves of 45-minutes (yes, I’ve used the words “FIFA” and “backbone” in the one sentence). Isn’t it refreshing that FIFA is now led by a visionary humanitarian that dictates a 3-minute break for the players to take a 10-second swig of water, purely for their own welfare?”
“Telemundo didn’t run commercials during the hydration break,” Michael Jones informs me. “The Guadalajara crowd charmingly sang “Celito Lindo”.
Dylan Riley informs me there are plenty of Korean fans at the live events at Gwanghwamun Plaza in Seoul. It would be nice if organisers had found room for more of them at the actual stadium.
“What a lovely looking hedge that is around the field,” remarks Sean Boiling. “I first noticed it behind the goals – a better look than that car park at Stamford Bridge back in the day.”
South Korea are clearly the better of the two sides but they have nothing to show for it at the break. As the half wore on they increasingly found joy in transition as well as working the ball through Czechia’s midfield via Hwang In-beom and Paik Seung-ho to the feet of Son Heung-min.
Czechia have come to assert themselves physically but they are getting no change from a resolute Korean defence.
Half-time: South Korea 0-0 Czechia
Not the greatest half of football we will experience this World Cup.
45+1 mins: Son should score! Korea show their technique playing the ball through the lines into the feet of their skipper. He does his thing to shape to the right, drift to the left, but instead of shooting first time he looks for the one two to his left. The return pullback is good but just a fraction too sharp and the LAFC striker can only stab-slide a toe-poke that doesn’t threaten Kovar.
45 mins: There will be three minutes of added advert time at the end of the first half.
43 mins: Korea engineer some space down the right but the cross is headed clear and Coufal does well to win the second effort in a 50-50 collision.
“I think this type of football calls for a new phrase: instead of describing the defences as being on top, it somehow feels more accurate to say that the attacks are on bottom,” emails Oliver Dungey. “No one put the attacks there, certainly not the defences. They just seemed to drift there all by themselves, presumably after passing it around pointlessly at the back for a while.”
41 mins: Korea win the first, then second ball in the air, from the free-kick. Czechia keep the pressure on though and deliver again from open play down the right but a Korean head is once more first to it. Korea’s defensive coach must be thrilled with his side’s commitment so far.
40 mins: Czechia win a high turnover of their own but in possession there is no urgency or commitment of numbers. Sojka shows great close control to earn a free-kick.
38 mins: Son should do better! Korea win the turnover on halfway through Kim Min-jae’s strength. The ball falls to Son who glides in trademark fashion unopposed from the right channel over to the left of the D then tries to pick his spot with a sidefoot curler – and misses the target. Korea are starting to boss this.
37 mins: Son belts a shot from 25 yards out over the bar after more neat work through the lines in midfield. Korea are clearly the superior technicians and if they remain patient you can see them working more shooting opportunities like that.
35 mins: Czechia build nicely down the left and work a decent cross through Provod. There’s a solid aerial contest but Korea are first to the second ball and clear.
34 mins: Credit to Korea for standing up to Czechia’s physicality. This is a game of contrasting styles but that doesn’t mean the slighter more technical side are pushovers.
33 mins: Korea get back on the ball, drawing Czechia onto them, then working play through the lines neatly exactly as designed. Son turns cutely in the centre circle, feeds Lee Tae-seok, but he can’t honour the run in behind.
32 mins: Back to more long-ball tosh from both sides. The game was progressing until the adverts but it has lost all rhythm.
31 mins: Every so often Korea spring out of their mid-low block to spring a press and put Czechia under pressure. It has created turnovers successfully, and even when it hasn’t it’s hassled the Czechs into errors in possession.
29 mins: Czechia get some rare time on the ball but they do not look capable of picking their way through Korea’s clearly defined 5-2-3 set-up out of possession. They try to isolate Coufal on the right but he can’t pick the lock.
27 mins: Korea slow the tempo down before Lee Kang-in steps up to inject some energy, but he’s robbed in midfield. Czechia are then denied themselves before they can hit on the break.
25 mins: Korea resume after the commercials slightly before the host broadcaster so we only just witness Seol Young-woo being flagged for offside. While play is halted Sulc requires a new jersey as his has been torn apart like he’s been wrestling with Wolverine.
“RE: the empty seats,” emails Joe Harden. “As an Irishman in Korea this game is one I thought of taking a punt on for tickets before the Euro qualifiers, they were priced around €250 at the time. (Luckily) never went through with it but checked again last week out of interest, there were plenty for sale but were now €300+. Looks like there have been a load of no-shows from speculative fans, which are now being filled out by Mexicans as the game progresses.”
Time for a hydration advert break. This is exactly as gross as you imagined.
21 mins: Czechia get some joy down the right now, through Coufal. His cross is blocked behind and a third corner from that side is in the offing. This one is a left-footed inswinger, after two outswingers, and it’s almost a goal! The delivery is wicked, dipping at the near post where Soucek is waiting to stab home on the volley but it’s all too fast and reflexive and he can’t angle his effort on target.
20 mins: Czechia build down the left with Zelený. Soucek then floats a teasing ball deep to the far side of the box where it’s deflected out for a corner. For the second time tonight Korea are equal to it in the air.
19 mins: A Mexican wave flutters around the stadium bowl. Never a great sign of the match the fans should be watching or their investment in it.
“A lot of adjusting going on right now to as to how the ball travels at altitude, which might account for a lack of accurate passes and long balls so far,” emails Justin Kavanagh. “One thing stood out from the earlier match at the Aztceca: The ball travels so quickly at these altitudes, so let’s hope for a few long-range, Jonny Reppesque screamers from these matches in Mexico.”
16 mins: Korea deal with their first set-piece challenge of the night and break quickly. Son is shoved over by Sulc on the counter but the free-kick is again awful, Lee Kang-in again at fault. But this match is starting to open up with Korea getting plenty of joy in transition.
15 mins: Korea go for the short corner routine and almost execute it to perfection, working the one-two near the touchline then pulling the ball back to the penalty spot but Soucek reads it superbly. The Czechs go down the other end, Provod wins the one-on-one duel in transition and his cross is in Schick’s direction before KimMin-Jae’s intervention.
14 mins: Kovar with the first save of the night, diving away to his left to double-palm away a long range howitzer from Lee Kang-in, by some margin the game’s best player. That was a lovely hit.
13 mins: Decent set-piece delivery this time but it’s headed over at the far post with a stretching header.
12 mins: Štěpán Chaloupek lets the ball run under his foot and out for a throw in. Korea take advantage and build neatly through midfield and the lively Lee Kang-in. He picks out Lee Jae-sung in the box with a lovely vertical pass. His industry fashions a half-chance for Son who slaps a deflected effort over.
11 mins: Another awful set-piece. This time Lee fails to beat the first man.
10 mins: Corner to Korea. Again it’s the product of a long ball into the channel, this time the right, as the Tageuk Warriors try to exploit the space outside the three Czechia central defenders.
8 mins: Son, Lee Jae-sung and Lee Kang-in dovetail well between the lines to get Korea moving, then there’s a dumb free-kick conceded by Krejčí to allow the first decent set-piece opportunity of the night. Son wastes it with dreadful delivery.
