Belgium Thrash Korea 5-0, Germany Blank Japan 3-0

Holders Belgium thrashed a plucky Korea 5-0 to start the defence of their World Cup title in type whereas two-time champions Germany beat reigning Asian Games champions Japan 3-0, on Saturday. The Koreans didn’t permit Belgium to open the scoring until the half time however the World and Olympic champion European facet struck two and three objectives within the third and fourth quarters respectively to finally notch up a convincing win in a Pool B match on the Kalinga stadium.

Five completely different gamers scored for world quantity two Belgium with three strikes from open play. Hendrickx Alexander opened account for Belgium within the first minute of the third quarter earlier than Cosyns Tanguy struck a discipline objective within the forty second minute.

The Korean resistance broke down after that and Belgium had been rampaging within the remaining quarter with objectives from Van Aubel Florent (forty ninth, penalty nook), Dockier Sebastien (51st, discipline objective) and De Sloover Arthur (57th, discipline objective).

In the second Pool B match performed at Kalinga stadium, no objective was scored until the half time. Grambusch Mats gave the result in world quantity 4 Germans within the thirty fifth minute by a penalty nook conversion earlier than Ruhr Christopher struck a discipline objective 5 minutes later.

Prinz Thies (forty eighth minute) then sealed the difficulty with a discipline effort within the remaining quarter as world quantity 16 Japan failed to attain a objective.

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