World Cup result: How Ghana beat South Korea 3-2 to keep knockout stage qualifying hopes alive

Welcome to The Athletic's live blog for this game between South Korea and Ghana.

Both are looking for their first win, with South Korea drawing 0-0 against Uruguay last Thursday, and Ghana losing 3-2 to Portugal.

Both Uruguay and Portugal are highly fancied, and so both teams need a win to keep their hopes of the knock-out stages alive.

Team news

South Korea: Seung-Gyu Kim, Moon-Hwan Kim, Min-Jae Kim, Young-Gwon Kim, Jin-Su Kim, In-Beom Hwang, Jung, Chang-Hoon Kwon, Jeong, Heung-Min Son, Gue-Sung Cho.

Ghana: Ati-Zigi, Lamptey, Amartey, Salisu, Mensah, Partey, Abdul Samed, Kudus, Andre Ayew, Williams, Jordan Ayew.

Background reading

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