HONG Kong take on J.League side Cerezo Osaka at the newly-opened Siu Sai Wan Stadium today in their last warm-up before facing South Korea in a World Cup qualifier in six days' time.
National coach Kwok Ka-ming is looking for a win today to build up the territory's confidence before meeting the World Cup Group Six favourites at the Hong Kong Stadium next Saturday.
The Korean Football Association yesterday named a 22-mansquad, which Kwok said was a mixture of the old and the new.
Criticised after their poor showing at the Asian Cup finals last December - where they were thrashed 6-2 by Iran in the quarter-finals - Korean coach Cha Bum-kun has included a number of key players in his squad.
Defender Hong Myung-bo, who scored a spectacular goal in his country's narrow 3-2 defeat to Germany in USA 94, has been included.
Olympic captain and midfielder Ha Seok-ju plus striker Hwang Sun-hong have also been recalled.
