{"id":11422,"date":"2018-03-07T17:04:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T08:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=11422"},"modified":"2018-03-07T17:04:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T08:04:23","slug":"three-interesting-facts-k-league-1s-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/03\/07\/three-interesting-facts-k-league-1s-first-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Interesting Facts from K League 1’s First Round"},"content":{"rendered":"

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written by Eugene Choi of Football Tribe Korea<\/em><\/p>\n

2018 K League 1 has started. Gyeongnam FC has been promoted, while Gwangju FC will not be found in the first division anymore.<\/p>\n

Football Tribe Korea has chosen three most interesting records from the very first round of 2018 K League 1.<\/p>\n

*Click on ‘NEXT’ to find out more!<\/em><\/p>\n


\n1. New Assists and Goals Records<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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When Lee Ki-je\u00a0scored the second goal of the match against Jeonnam Dragons, Yeom marked his 100th assists for the first time in the league history.<\/p>\n

The living legend Lee Dong-gook scored his 203th goal against Ulsan Hyundai. Lee is in fact\u00a0the first player who found the net 200 times in K League. Indeed, every goal he scores is a record.<\/p>\n

2. Four Ex-Bundesliga players in One Match<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Four ex-Bundesliga players clashed in one match of K League 1 when Jeonbuk Hyundai and Ulsan Hyundai faced each other. These include Lee Dong-gook, Hong Jeong-ho, and Kim Jin-su\u00a0from Jeonbuk and Park Joo-ho from Ulsan Hyundai.<\/p>\n

Hong has spent four seasons from 2013 to 2016 at FC Augsburg before he moved to Jiangsu Suning. Lee Dong-gook appeared in seven matches\u00a0during the half\u00a0a season he spent at\u00a0SV Werder Bremen.<\/p>\n

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Both Kim Jin-su who was at 1899 Hoffenheim and Park Joo-ho who was at Mainz 05 and Borussia Dortmund had put in decent performances in Germany but were not included in their new head coaches’ plan and moved back to Korea.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Incheon, Seoul and Daegu Fail to Win in the First Round, Again<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Some teams rarely have a good start of the season.<\/p>\n

FC Seoul are among them as they have never won in the first round since 2011. Considering FC Seoul is considered one of favourites\u00a0to win trophies, it is a unique record. This season is not an exception as they had a scoreless draw with Jeju United.<\/p>\n

By the time Incheon United’s\u00a0Stefan Mugosa scored in his debut was too late to turn the match around, and they were defeated 1:2. Their winless streak of the first round started in 2011 as well.<\/p>\n

Daegu FC were massacred 0:3 by Pohang Steelers. They have never won in their first league matches since they got promoted, recording three draws and nine defeats so far.<\/p>\n

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[Photo credit=Getty]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

written by Eugene Choi of Football Tribe Korea 2018 K League 1 has started. Gyeongnam FC has been promoted, while Gwangju FC will not be found in the first division anymore. Football Tribe Korea has chosen three most interesting records from the very first round of 2018 K League 1. *Click on ‘NEXT’ to find out more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":11423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,867,856,33],"tags":[71,954,795,1289],"class_list":["post-11422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia","category-korea","category-rest-of-asia","category-south-korea","tag-fc-seoul","tag-k-league","tag-lee-dong-gook","tag-suwon-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}