Sweden v Korea Republic, 18 June 2018

Kick-off: 3.00pm local Sweden v Korea Republic was Match 12 of the FIFA World Cup 2018 Refereeing team: Referee: Joel Aguilar (El Salvador) Assistant Referee 1: Juan Zumba (El Salvador) Assistant Referee 2: Juan Mora (Costa Rica) Fourth Official: Norbert Hauata (Tahiti) Reserve AR: Bertrand Brial (New Caledonia) VAR: Mauro Vigliano (Argentina) AVAR 1: Abdulrahman Al Jassim (Qatar) AVAR 2: Taleb Al Marri (Qatar) AVAR 3: Daniele Orsato (Italy) This was Sweden's first win in their opening match at a World Cup finals since they were the host nation in 1958 when they beat Mexico 3-0. Korea Republic were now without a win in their last seven games at the World Cup finals (lost five). Andreas Granqvist's penalty was the first scored by a Sweden player at the World Cup finals since 2002 when Henrik Larsson converted against Nigeria.