Week One of the 2021 K-League One is done and dusted and we had goals, red cards, VAR (obviously), successful debuts and some unsuccessful ones as were treated to a long weekend of football fayre. Below are my 5 picks of things that we learned from the weekend and beyond.
Not only was this the first time that Seongnam had welcomed the Champions since June 2016 it would also be the Kim Shin-wook fanclub’s (@RevJChrist) final K-League match before heading home to challenges afresh. The visit of Jeonbuk was one I had been looking forward to for a while as they are truly truly the…
While all eyes were on a certain match in Indonesia yesterday (spoiler alert Son can stay in England forever) it’s time now to turn our attention back to the bread and butter of the K-League One. There were a couple of K1 games played yesterday as Seoul’s miserable season continued with a turgid 0-0 down…
After the first midweek round of games of the season we have an all too familiar name at the top of the table as Jeonbuk resume their mantle of “Korea’s best” after a 4-0 demolition of Gyeongnam with a Kim Shin Wook double in the first 25 minutes setting them on their way. Wednesday also…
Week 2 of K-League One was definitely a week full of surprises, shocking goalkeeping and ‘super strikes’ as we were served up a smorgasbord of goals with more than just a few coming from unlikely sources. Last weekend we saw the chinks in the Jeonbuk armor get ripped open, Ulsan continued to struggle to look anything…
This week sees the return of live top-table league football in Korea under the newly named K-League One division and not a moment too soon as I’m not sure many of us can take much more of people falling over when nobody near them and all too frequent bizarre refereeing decisions…..oh wait Short Track Skating…
