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A key game in the top of the table, second place Pohang Steelers receives the fourth placed Jeonbuk Motors at the Steelyard. Both teams are separated by four points. Still plenty of league to play before the split and the championship rounds, in total 15 rounds yet to play starting with this one.

Pohang Steelers lost three rounds ago in the Steelyard against Ulsan Hyundai, Ulsan advantage grew to 16 points in the top, but in the last two rounds Ulsan has been defeated and Pohang Steelers obtained four points, so in balance shorten the distance in one point between them. The key players for the Steelers are Goh Young-Jun with seven goals, and Brazilian Zeca and Lee Ho-Jae with five goals each one.

After an difficult start of K League 1, three victories in eleven games, Jeonbuk Motors fixed their course and from the following 15 games has 11 victories which has them in the top four, yet the aspirations are higher and for that they need to continue with positive results. In that task, the offensive duo Song Min-Kyu, and Moon Seon-min with five goals have step up and the departure of Cho Gue-Sung and Kim Gon-Ung has not been felt, expecting that new arrivals Nana Boateng and Tomas Petrasek have time to adapt to the team and start contributing.

In the most recent game between them at the Steelyard, Pohang Steelers came victorious by the minimum, breaking a streak of six games unable to defeat Jeonbuk Motors at Steelyard, two draws and four consecutive defeats.

An intense and attractive game is expected at the Steelyard, Pohang has been solid in home, yet Jeonbuk Motos despite the negative numbers at away, from the start of season, comes with a positive form, has been scoring with ease and getting victories and would like anything else than close the gap between them and return to rule in their rival’s home. It will be a level game in which the edge goes to the in-form team as well a positive results in the previous games between them.

21/07/2023 07:30, read 461 times