According to the South Korean Yonhap News Agency, South Korea's national team coach Dick Advocaat said Thursday in German city of Leverkusen that "we are to, maybe, surprise (France) this time."

Earlier on Wednesday, South Korea's assistance coach Pim Verbeek told Korean newspaper after a recovery training session from the team's first match against Togo in Germany that "It's time to win."

"France is surely a great team, but it has weaknesses, too. We need to capitalize on countering and I believe we can do it with our speed," Lee Chun-soo, the team's winger, told the Korean Times.

"We can grab control of the midfield only if we can repeat the tough pressure on the pitch as we did in 2002," another player Lee Young-pyo told South Korean reporters in Germany earlier.

South Korea and France will meet in their second match of Group G in the World Cup finals, beginning at GMT 2300 Sunday, in Germany.

In previous matches of the Group G, South Korea beat Togo 2-1 while France drew Swiss with 0-0.