Daejeon 2 Suwon 1

[nyujeelandsaram]

I repeat.

Daejeon 2
Suwon 1

A whopping 7 goals from open play in 6 games this round as well. What's the league coming to!!!

Mind you if we took Daegu out of the league then 50% of the goals would go with them as well.

What's that 42 scored and 41 conceded from them in 25 games?

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Also apparently there were 18639 at the game tonight.

Been said by me many times before but how do they get away with this?! Perhaps it's because there are so few people at the games that nobody can verify it. So if you get 10,000 along you can say it was 13,000 but if you get 3,000 along you can say it was 22,000 and nobody knows any better.

Daejeon end had 300, Suwon end about 3000, corporate side about 500, and opposite side about 5000 max.

Add them up.

[SteveW]

Suwon were blooming pathetic tonight. A mixture of apathy and ineptitude which I haven't seen since the SPL.

Nadson and Marcel better shape up or ship out. The rest of the non-entities could at least look like they want to win.

2-0 down ...corner to Suwon...at least 4 Suwon players milling around on the half way line..... WHAT THE @#!@!!!

And as for (Mrs) Cha and his/her random team selections and tactics.......don't get me started.

For the first time ever the crowd didn't cheer them off the park, think that says a lot.

[Holyjoe]

Aye, a lot of pissed off Suwon fans yesterday...

Last year on August 31st Suwon midfielder Jung Yong-hoon was killed in a car crash, and the supporters really wanted the team to win last night in his memory - they had a candlelit vigil, flowers out and a massive new banner with his picture on it.

However, the team were shockingly poor. Lee Byung-kun did absolutely nothing and got hooked at half-time, everything that went to Kim Jin-woo was wasted, and Urumov showed that he's nae much use when he starts the game. Kim Dae-ui tried to do everything himself and it all came to nothing, Marcel had his usual potshots at goal that went nowhere near to troubling the goalie, and Nadson wasn't much better.

As Steve said, the fans didn't cheer the team off the pitch at the end as they usually do, which should send a message to the players that their recent run of crap form (since.. ooh, Barcelona pretty much) won't be blindly tolerated much longer.

That's one win in eight from August, and now played Daejeon three times this season and only managed one draw.
Interestingly, Suwon had a run of seven home wins going which was ended with a 0-0 draw by Daejeon at the beginning of August (Barca was the last win). Since then Suwon haven't won at home, drawing 0-0 (Daejeon), losing 0-1 (Chunnam), drawing 1-1 (Cheonbuk) and losing 2-1 (last night).

Sort it out, Cha...

[Ed.]

The moment that said it all was Kwak Hee-ju getting an open goal in the second half and somehow refusing to shoot - I don't think I'll ever figure out what he was thinking.

[SteveW]

The moment that said it all for me was Kim Jin Woo 20 yards out..... goalkeeper on the deck.....two defenders on the deck...... and he can't even hit the target!!!

[nyujeelandsaram]

The moment that said it all for me was a beautiful cross being curled in to two unmarked Suwon players less than 10 yards out from goal. They both basically collided and the one who got his head on it missed by 10 yards.

Oh yeah and that joker who had the ball on a plate to blast at the net from close range but decided to narrow his angle to zero degrees was mind boggling. The missus was making excuses for him about how he wasn't quite balanced or something but he looked fine from where I was sitting (130 metres away).

[Ed.]

SteveW said:

The moment that said it all for me was Kim Jin Woo 20 yards out..... goalkeeper on the deck.....two defenders on the deck...... and he can't even hit the target!!!

Not all that shocking though when you look at the old boy's record for the Bluewings. Around 250 games in midfield, 2 goals (both against Pohang a year apart, the second one coming about 3 years ago). ;D

[SteveW]

Yeah....and if you look at the effort he made to convert a rebound from Kim Dae Eui's missed penalty in one of the Cup games earlier this season its not really surprising (he managed to get it 6 yards over the bar from 4 yards out!!)

Still....he's good at falling over around the center circle.

They really were pathetic yesterday and I don't know whats happened to them in the last 6 weeks or so... prior to the Barca game they were the best K-League side I've seen by a country mile.

Now they look like Anyang on a bad day! Not good.

[nyujeelandsaram]

SteveW said:

They really were pathetic yesterday and I don't know whats happened to them in the last 6 weeks or so... prior to the Barca game they were the best K-League side I've seen by a country mile.

Now they look like Anyang on a bad day! Not good.

In Anyang's defence (because we never had one) we did manage to look like scoring quite often. It's just we never did unless it was against Daegu, Bucheon or Gwangju!!!

Why didn't Suwon ever play like that against us?!

Next time I might try and walk through the Suwon area after the game wearing my Anyang shirt and chanting we might have no team but you've got no midfield, defence, attack, coach or goal keeper!!!

[Holyjoe]

Fupp knows what the answer is... but bringing back Popescu and bubble-wrapping Ko Jong-soo might help.

It's quite funny reading the Suwon Official Handbook, as they have given the main squad players different fighter-aircraft names.
For example;

Lee Woon-jae is an F-14 Tomcat.
Kim Jin-woo is an AH-1 Cobra.
Seo Jung-won a B52 Bomber.
Kim Dae-ui is an A-6 Intruder.
Nadson an A-4 Skyhawk.

Maybe so... but this is how they're playing:

[Holyjoe]

Bump this back to the top with some photos of the Suwon fans and their memorial to Jung Yong-hoon from last year: