Injured midfielders Park Ji-sung and Lee Eul-yong will not start for the national soccer team in Thursday's friendly game against Norway in Oslo.

Coach Dick Advocaat said that in their stead, he will start Kim Doo-heon and Baek Ji-hoon to test new strategies.

Ranked 40th in the world, Norway plays power-driven soccer typical for a European team and has a style similar to South Korea's World Cup opponent Switzerland.

Meanwhile, Switzerland played to a 1-1 draw against Italy Wednesday in a World Cup warm-up, while France, which is also in Group G along with South Korea, beat Denmark 2-0.