On Sunday’s group tournament match for men’s football, Korea tied Germany with Three-Three final score.
Advertisement
Goals from Gnabry and Davie Selke put the Germans 2-1 ahead with 35 minutes remaining, and substitute Suk Hyun-Jun scored late to think he’d sealed the win before Gnabry’s deflected free-kick victor in injury time.
Germany lie in third place in Group C two points behind Mexico and South Korea.
Despite dispatching Fiji with eight unanswered goals on Thursday, South Korea very much entered Sunday’s match as underdogs against their European opponents.
Mexico also have four points but trail South Korea in goal difference, plus-8 to plus-4.
South Korea will be able to advance to the quarterfinal with a draw with Mexico, which it will play against at Mane Garrincha Stadium in Brasilia on Wednesday.
Erick Gutierrez scored four second-half goals for the defending Olympic champions as they came from behind to beat the minnows in Salvador.
Davie Selke fired Germany back into the lead on the hour mark but Korea equalised just two minutes later through Son, who is set miss the start of the Premier League season in order to take part in Rio.
South Korean coach Shin Tae-yong put two attackers into the match, Suk in the 75th and then Ryu Seung-woo – who had a hat trick against Fiji – in the 82nd.
The Germans proceeded to take an unsurprising grip on possession, but what followed was more of a shock as South Korea mounted a slim lead from the most unlikely of scenarios.
Advertisement
With South Korea minutes away from the victory, Gnabry netted his second of the day, on a free kick from just outside the box that deflected off the defensive wall and into the net. Lee Seul-chan’s cross from right went off the hand of goalkeeper Timo Horn, and Suk was there to put in the rebound.
