South Korea vs Russia Live Stream: Watch World Cup 2014 Football Online
South Korea will play Russia on Tuesday in a World Cup 2014 Group H clash. These will be the final two teams to get their World Cups started and both teams will know how important a good start is if they are to qualify from the group stages for the knock out rounds of the tournament. The game will kick off at 6 p.m. ET and can be watched on TV on the ESPN network or online through live stream (details below).
In team news, Russia will reportedly be without captain Roman Shirokov, who suffered a knee injury just before the tournament began. His injury is thought to be serious and his World Cup appears to be over before it had even begun.
For South Korea, centre-back Hong Jeong-Ho will be recalled after the team suffered a blowout loss to Ghana in their final friendly before the World Cup started, losing 0-4 to Ghana.
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This will be South Korea's eighth straight World Cup Finals - only Brazil, Germany, Italy, Argentina and Spain are currently in better World Cup appearance streaks than that - but disappointingly until now Korea have only qualified from the group stages in two of those eight tournaments.
South Korea have also only won two of their last 10 World Cup games, against lowly Togo in the 2006 World Cup, and against Greece in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
Their best showing of course was in 2002 when they co-hosted the World Cup with Japan and stormed through the tournament sparking numerous upsets. South Korea eventually lost in the semifinals of that tournament and came in fourth overall.
Korea have 17 players in its World Cup squad who play their football overseas, and the squad is surprisingly youthful, with a number of the players who won the bronze for Korea in the London Summer Olympics in 2012 making the group.
Russia against South Korea should kick off at 6 p.m. ET and can be watched on TV on the ESPN network or online through live stream by clicking here.
