[S I M T A N]

Strategy is wrong, Sg is too attacking against Asia 1st tier team.
Sg should focus counter. 

Top management fault is not ambitious enough. 

The game on home turf turned out to be a complete massacre, and though the result was a huge disappointment, it wasn't unexpected given that the Lions were facing an Asian soccer powerhouse. Apparently, Japanese coach Tsutomu made a tactical blunder of pushing his charges on the offensive to take the game to the Koreans. His "to challenge themselves (the Lions) and their opponents" rallying cry meant carrying the attack into the Koreans' side of the field, leaving our defence vulnerable to swift counteroffensives.

Offensively, the Taegeuk Warriors are strong, and they're streets ahead of the Lions when it comes to skill, speed, fitness and finishing. Thus, it'd have been better to err on the side of caution by "parking the bus" and absorbing the Korean attacks while keeping an eye for a quick counterattacking move. It might have kept the scoreline down or even tied the game if we were lucky.

As it happened, the formidable Korean cast - including the likes of a Paris Saint-Germain wizard and captain and live wire Son among others from at least three EPL sides - made mincemeat of our journeyman footballers, separating the men from the boys. The Reds sit pretty at the top of the group while the toothless Lions take the wooden spoon. The lop-sided score is a manifestation of the gulf in standards between the 23th-ranked Reds and SG, ranked 155th in FIFA world rankings.