"The above doesn't care. The goal is to widen the gap with the teams below."
Suwon FC coach Kim Eun-joong was consistently calm. He was not excited, reassured, or complacent. It came shortly after the team won 2-1 in the 22nd round of the K League 1 away game in Sangmu, Gimcheon on the 9th, and had no loss in four games (three wins and one draw).
He completed 33 round robin-style regular league games and two of three laps before the split round, which is divided between upper and lower water. Suwon, which finished 22 games, has 37 points (11 wins, 4 draws, 7 losses), ranking fifth in the league after Gimcheon (40 points), Ulsan (39 points), Pohang (38 points), and Gangwon (37 points) as of 4 p.m. on the 10th. It's a strong performance that no one expected. During the brink of relegation war last year, the total number of points in 38 games (8 wins, 9 draws and 21 losses) was 33 points. Suwon, led by head coach Kim Eun-joong in the new season 'Sharp', has already scored 33 points in the 20th round.
The second-round performance was 7 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses, and 22 points were accumulated after a bad struggle. The fact that Andersson has completed his adaptation to K League 1 and Son Joon-ho's addition to the 'strongest midfielder' was a good thing, but the injury of Lee Seung-woo, the team's most scorer, and the absence of a striker after the transfer to Monreal, which did not show any significant performance, were obvious bad news. Suwon overcame the ordeal of the striker's absence with a clever customized strategy of 'Sharpball' and the stickiness of the original team, which combines veterans and young guns.
After winning against Gwangju on the 25th of last month and Daejeon on the 29th, they tied the strongest Ulsan 1-1 and won a thrilling 3-2 victory in Gimcheon, where they were defeated 1-4 on their home turf, winning four games without a loss and losing five games (4 wins and 1 draw).
Coach Kim thanked \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\. In the match against Gimcheon, center back Kim Tae-han played fullback, and fullback Park Chul-woo became a winger following the match against Ulsan. The reason why the position change is successful is thanks to the message 'Sharp'. Director Kim pointed out only the simple things to do. "I only talk about the role I should play simply because asking too much other than the basics can lead to confusion." "If you do it, you do it well, and sometimes you have to do more than that, and sometimes you have to stop it."," he said with a smile. Park Cheol-woo, who is full of grit, did not hide his satisfaction with his performance of 'Pobyeon'. "I told (Park) Cheol-woo that he could do it like Gareth Bale." be doing a good job", he commented.
In the absence of an authentic striker, some zero-top tactics worked. Coach Kim said "In the absence of a professional goaltender, the part where I think all players on the offensive line can score is positive." Jung Seung-won showed his fighting spirit in Lee Seung-woo's absence. In his second year in Daegu, when he was doing well with '5 goals and 3 assists', he achieved a 'career high' that exceeded 4 goals and 3 assists. In the match against Gimcheon, veterans Ji Dong-won and Yoon Bit-garam burst at the same time. Immediately after giving up a 2-2 equalizer to Gimcheon, who was leading 2-0 in the first half due to Ji Dong-won's strong performance, coach Kim expressed his honest feelings, saying, `It was a car that could score a goal because I used up all the offensive replacement cards.' It's Suwon this season, a team where someone appears without fail when they ask, "Who can score a goal?" Yoon Bit-garam's toes flashed in the 32nd minute of the second half, three minutes after giving up the equalizer.
Coach Kim said "(Yoon Bit) Garam finally scored the first goal."," he said with pleasure. "There was a header that Dong-won (Ji) would have scored perfectly against Ulsan, but he must have felt pressured because he missed it. As a result, I think I focused more on the match against Gimcheon and prepared well.' He emphasized the power of veterans such as Lee Yong, Kwon Kyung-won, Ji Dong-won, and Yoon Bit-garam, who lead the undefeated Suwon. "The elders do what the director can't do. That's a great strength of our team. Young players believe in their older brothers and play harder on the field."
Kim's center was solid, only three points apart from the first-runner Gimcheon. "I don't look up, I see a team that follows me below. The key is to widen the gap with the teams below. "I've never been comfortable in 22 games. We are a team that was in the relegation zone last year. Ranking doesn't mean much now. `Let's do our best in each game and pour everything out as we prepare.' This is our team's unchanging motto, our team's characteristic and color.' "K League 1 is never easy because it is a low-ranking team. It doesn't mean you give six points to beat the top teams. After every game, I prepare for the next game and analyze the opponent team, and even if I do that, the players just pour everything out. "We didn't set the goal of a top split from the start. The goal of `Let's get out of the relegation zone in a stable manner' is the same now.
The last third round will begin at 7 p.m. on the 14th against Daegu at Castle Park. At what point will we be able to 'relief'. Coach Kim said, `Until the upper and lower divisions are divided, we cannot rest assured. After six games in the third round robin, maybe half of it will be outlined to some extent, he replied.
