{"id":3915,"date":"2024-02-03T06:32:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T06:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=3915"},"modified":"2024-02-03T06:32:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T06:32:12","slug":"son-heung-min-who-led-south-korea-to-the-semi-finals-of-the-asian-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=3915","title":{"rendered":"Son Heung-min, who led South Korea to the semi-finals of the Asian Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>3 February 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Son Heung-min&#8217;s extra-time free-kick winner helped South Korea beat Australia and send South Korea into the semi-finals of the Asian Cup.<br>Australia had looked set for victory thanks to Craig Goodwin&#8217;s volley from Nathaniel Atkinson&#8217;s cross three minutes before the end of the first half. But in the 96th minute of overtime, South Korea won a penalty due to Lewis Miller&#8217;s foul on Sang Heung-min. From the penalty, Hwang Hee-chan scored the equalizer for South Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After another 30 minutes of overtime, Sang Hyun-min scored the winning goal through a free kick that gave South Korea a 2-1 win.<br>Australia was reduced to 10 men with O&#8217;Neill sent off by the video assistant referee for a dangerous foul. After winning the Asian Cup in 1960, South Korea has been far away from the championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/132537741_4059e137747bc2db6d4e028cf8b049d2fdd2de55.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/132537741_4059e137747bc2db6d4e028cf8b049d2fdd2de55.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/132537741_4059e137747bc2db6d4e028cf8b049d2fdd2de55-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/132537741_4059e137747bc2db6d4e028cf8b049d2fdd2de55-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/132537741_4059e137747bc2db6d4e028cf8b049d2fdd2de55-18x10.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/8b40a96e0120f2f1d8f7b21c9e5e3c2c.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3917\" style=\"width:801px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/8b40a96e0120f2f1d8f7b21c9e5e3c2c.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/8b40a96e0120f2f1d8f7b21c9e5e3c2c-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/8b40a96e0120f2f1d8f7b21c9e5e3c2c-18x12.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 February 2024 Son Heung-min&#8217;s extra-time free-kick winner helped South Korea beat Australia and send South Korea into<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3918,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions\/3918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}