K League’s defending champion Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors suffered a shocking 2-3 defeat on 10 March against Incheon United. However, the head coach Choi Kang-hee decided to look on the bright side.<\/p>\n
“It was the right time to be defeated. I usually tell players to stay focused after\u00a0a great victory but we did not as much as in the last match,” said Choi.<\/p>\n
Indeed, Jeonbuk had a great start of the season with four consecutive victories, including 2-0 over Ulsan Hyundai and 6-3 over Tianjin Quanjian. Having scored 17 goals in four matches, however, Jeonbuk also showed their weakness in defense with five goals conceded. Choi also recognised this problem.<\/p>\n
“It is our problem. Since this is still an early stage of the season, we can improve.<\/p>\n
“We have time to fix our problem and recover [the points]. will reflect on and analyze this defeat.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
K League’s defending champion Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors suffered a shocking 2-3 defeat on 10 March against Incheon United. However, the head coach Choi Kang-hee decided to look on the bright side. “It was the right time to be defeated. I usually tell players to stay focused after\u00a0a great victory but we did not as much as in the last match,” said Choi. Indeed, Jeonbuk had a great start of the season with four consecutive victories, including 2-0 over Ulsan Hyundai and 6-3 over Tianjin Quanjian. Having scored 17 goals in four matches, however, Jeonbuk also showed their weakness in defense with five goals conceded. Choi also recognised this problem. “It … Continue reading “Choi Kang-hee: It was the right time to be defeated”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":11502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,867,856,33],"tags":[1254,1030,209,1302],"class_list":["post-11501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia","category-korea","category-rest-of-asia","category-south-korea","tag-choi-kang-hee","tag-incheon-united","tag-jeonbuk-hyundai","tag-k-league-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11501","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=11501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}