Battling Bahrain stun South Korea in Asian Cup

Jakarta, July 15 (Reuters) South Korea suffered a shock 2-1 loss at the hands of Bahrain on Sunday to leave their Asian Cup dreams in tatters.

After taking an early lead through Kim Do-heon, Korea sat back and let Bahrain back into the game. Slack defending allowed Salman Isa Ghuloom to equalise just before half-time.

Worse was to follow for the 2002 World Cup semi-finalists in a second half they completely dominated.

A woeful back pass from Kim Jung-woo was picked up by Talal Yusuf. He danced into the box and the ball broke to Ismaeel Abdullatif who fired past Lee Woon-jae.

The result leaves Korea at the bottom of Group D and needing to beat Indonesia in their final game to stand any chance of advancing to the quarter-finals.

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