The Philippine girls’s nationwide soccer staff was despatched crashing by South Korea because the Filipinas absorbed a 5-1 defeat for his or her first loss within the nineteenth Asian Games on Monday evening in Hangzhou, China.
The Filipinas fell to a 1-1 win-loss card whereas world no. 20 Korea improved to an immaculate 2-0 slate after additionally dominating Myanmar on the opening day.
With each groups coming off their 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup stints, the Filipinas acquired off to a scorching begin with Sarina Bolden getting issues underway for the squad as she transformed a aim off a Merryl Serrano help on the eighth minute mark.
But the Koreans have been fast to reply as Chun Garam discovered the again of the online for the equalizer simply 4 minutes after.
Son Hwayeon then went for a header in between the protection of Hali Long and Jessika Cowart for a 2-1 lead on the forty fourth minute earlier than Ji Soyun’s penalty kick despatched Korea to a pivotal 3-1 cushion.
Son additional imposed her will, scoring her second and third objectives on the 56th and sixtieth minute marks for a hat trick and giving her aspect a cushty 5-1 benefit.
The final time the 2 squads confronted off, Korea emerged victorious as effectively after pulling off a 2-0 win in opposition to the Philippines in the course of the semifinals of the 2022 AFC Asian Women’s Cup final 12 months.
The Filipinas will subsequent face Myanmar on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. The prime finishers from 5 teams and the three finest runner-ups will advance to the quarterfinals.
—Bea Micaller/JMB, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
