Gwangju Beats '0-2 → 3-2 Win' Day Champion, Brags Of K League

Gwangju Beats '0-2 → 3-2 Win' Day Champion, Brags Of K League

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Everyone thought it would be hard. As they lost 0-2 in away matches in Japan, they thought the J-League championship was high. I thought it was good enough due to the reality of Gwangju FC.

However, he did not give up on Gwangju under coach Lee Jung-hyo. He tied the game as if it were a lie, extended the game, and scored a miraculous finishing goal to advance to the quarterfinals of the Asian Champions League.

Although it is a team that does not have outstanding star players and operates with a small salary, Gwangju FC has now become the pride of the K League.

Gwangju beat Vissel Kobe 2-0 in the second round of the 2024-2025 Asian Football Confederation Champions League round of 16 at Gwangju World Cup Stadium on the 12th to set the total score for the first and second games to 2-2, and won the game 3-0 with Asani's winning goal in overtime. The team came from behind with a 3-2 aggregate score to advance to the quarterfinals of ACLE.

Everyone gave up their expectations after losing 0-2 in the first round of away games in Japan on the 5th. The opponent was Kobe, who won the Japanese J-League in 2023 and 2024. Gwangju, which is also operated on a small budget in the K-League, was an opponent enough to be praised as "well done."

However, Gwangju did not give up on the second game at home. After Park Jung-in scored in the 18th minute of the first half, Asani scored a penalty kick in the 40th minute of the second half and made a dramatic move to overtime. Then, at the 13th minute of the second half of the second half, Asani's lie-like left-footed mid-range shot burst and Gwangju caught Kobe.

Gwangju ranked seventh among the 12 teams in the K-League last year with a 9.6 billion won salary for the team. Even that was a reflection of the significant increase in the team's salary because it ranked third in the league like a lie in 2023.

Although the season has started this year, the situation in Gwangju is getting worse. The bad news overlapped, including core player Jung Ho-yeon's trip to the U.S. and Heo Yul's trip to Ulsan HD. On the contrary, Gwangju players are doing so well due to the fact that they are being sold to bigger teams and bigger stages due to the irony that they are being sold to bigger teams year by year.

ACLE stage is not easy. Even Ulsan, which won the K-League championship for the third consecutive year, failed to advance to the round of 16 due to its disastrous performance of ranking 10th out of 11 teams, while Pohang Steelers, the winner of last year's FA Cup, also failed to advance to the round of 16 by ranking ninth. Gwangju was the only Korean team that survived and advanced to the round of 16, but it would not be easy for everyone because the opponent team was Kobe.

However, Gwangju made it to the quarterfinals by reversing the 0-2 unfavorable score to 3-2. From the quarterfinals, the team will be able to play against Western Asian teams. This means that it will play against Middle East teams, which have invested huge amounts of capital. How long will the miracle of Gwangju, which uses low-level budgets even in the K-League, last. 스포츠토토

Gwangju, which survived to the round of 16 alone, advanced to the quarterfinals and became the pride of the K-League.