"I'm now able to pay off what I owe in 2018."

This joke became popular among German soccer fans when it was heard that coach Jurgen Klinsmann (60, Germany) would take the helm of the Korean men's national soccer team.

The German men's soccer team lost to South Korea 0-2 in the final Group F match of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, marking the first-ever elimination from the group stage.

The reason why he described it as "paying back the debt" was because he did not receive much good reviews in terms of tactics, unlike Klinsmann's days as a striker representing Germany.

And in Korea, he resigned infamously in 354 days under the evaluation of 'nothing tactics'.

The first step in analyzing tactics in football is to analyze pass characteristics.

Hwang In-beom (28, Tsurvena Zvezda) was the most important player in the pass network of the Korean national team at the Qatar Asian Cup.

Hwang In-beom is a player who can be said to be the link between offense and defense, so it's not a strange thing.

Hwang In-beom is also the player with the most pass success (528 times) in this tournament.

If the players are broadly divided into strikers and defenders, it is little wonder that Seol Young-woo (26, Ulsan) was the most important player in the pass process.

In fact, Kim Min-jae (28, Bayern Munich) was the most important defender until the quarterfinals when he faced Australia, but he was pushed back after failing to play in the semifinals.

Among the strikers, Lee Kang-in (23, Paris Saint-Germain, PSG) was the most important player.

And it can be said that Lee Kang-in became the most important player in the pass network because of "cross."

Lee Kang-in attempted a total of 69 crosses in this tournament.

Compared to Kim Tae-hwan (34, Jeonbuk) and Akram Afif (28, Qatar), who tied for second place in this category (No. 36), the number is 1.9 times higher.

In Korea, it was also tied for 10th place (24).

Korea is the only country in the top 10 cross-top of the competition with three people.먹튀검증