A superb match.
The Chollima (or Chols, as I like to call them) of North Korea defended superbly for 54 minutes, with Brazil unable to penetrate their eight man defence. I found myself saying "come on Chols" everytime they completed a pass or tackle. The lad up front ran his arse off and outmuscled Lucio on occasion, something that was beyond Drogba a few months ago.
The best thing about the match was that Korea's late goal means that Dear Leader Kim Jong Il can very easily edit the highlights to make North Korea win! Brilliant.
Considering the predictions, the underdogs did fabulously well.
As for Brazil, they played ok. Luis Fabiano was fairly dodgy though, Kaka was a bit pedestrian, Elano is hardly in the lineage of Gerson, Rivaldo etc., and is Gilberto really the best defensive midfield player Brazil have? The defence looked pretty good apart from conceding the goal, but I have my doubts about their overall quality, frankly.
I enjoyed the game anyway, if just for the fact that North Korea made a far better fist of it then they might have done, and that they managed to reply to the two goals when they were starting to flag a bit. Good work.
It is a bit of an indictment of the quality of the tournament that this gets a Liquid Football tag though.
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