Japan, Australia, and South Korea enjoyed comfortable wins in Asia qualifying for the 2018 World Cup on Thursday.Son Heung-min came off the bench to provide two assists as South Korea beat Myanmar 4-0. Along with Qatar, South Korea is the only team in the second round of qualifying with a perfect five wins from five games.”We dominated the game and I am pleased with our performance,” said South Korea coach Uli Stielike after watching his team’s 15th win in 2015. ”We expected that Myanmar would be defensive, but we showed what we could do early in the game and made a good start.”European-based Keisuke Honda and Maya Yoshida scored Japan’s second and third goals in a 3-0 win in Singapore to put them top of Group E, above Syria.Australia bounced back from October’s loss in Jordan to defeat Kyrgyzstan 3-0 in Canberra, and move within a point of Jordan. Mile Jedinak scored from the spot just before the break, Tim Cahill added a second just after and an Ildar Amirov own goal sealed the win.”I would have preferred we won 10-0 which we should have. If you look at the number of chances we created, the way we played our… Read full this story
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