Jeonbuk Motors clinched their fifth K-League Classic title on Sunday afternoon with an emphatic 3-0 win over title rivals Jeju United.<\/p>\n
Choi Kang-hee\u2019s side came into the match four points ahead of Jeju, knowing that a loss would see their lead shrink to a single point.<\/p>\n
Instead everything went as planned, with last year’s runners-up dominating the game with their powerful and speedy attack.<\/p>\n
After a scoreless first half, Kim Shin-wook assisted Lee Jae-sung with a header to give the hosts a 1-0 lead in the 47th minute. Things went from bad to worse for Jeju when Park Jin-po was shown his second yellow card in the 59th minute, reducing the visitors to just 10 men.<\/p>\n
Club legend Lee Dong-gook came on for Jeonbuk shortly after and instantly made an impact, helping to set up Lee Seung-gi’s goal on a counter-attack in the 67th minute.<\/p>\n
Then it was Lee’s turn to put his own name on the scoreboard in the 78th minute, sealing Jeonbuk’s first national championship in two years and becoming the first K-League player to score 200 goals in the process.<\/p>\n
The title represents a measure of closure for Jeonbuk, who started the year with an expulsion from the 2017 AFC Champions League as part of the fallout over a bribery scandal.<\/p>\n
Despite the loss, Jeju are all but assured of a spot in next year’s ACL, while third place Suwon Bluewings sit just one point above Ulsan Hyundai in fourth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jeonbuk Motors clinched their fifth K-League Classic title on Sunday afternoon with an emphatic 3-0 win over title rivals Jeju United. Choi Kang-hee\u2019s side came into the match four points ahead of Jeju, knowing that a loss would see their lead shrink to a single point. Instead everything went as planned, with last year’s runners-up dominating the game with their powerful and speedy attack. After a scoreless first half, Kim Shin-wook assisted Lee Jae-sung with a header to give the hosts a 1-0 lead in the 47th minute. Things went from bad to worse for Jeju when Park Jin-po was shown his second yellow card in the 59th minute, reducing … Continue reading “Record-setting Lee Dong-gook propels Jeonbuk Motors to fifth K-League title”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":8309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[867,1],"tags":[209,851],"class_list":["post-8305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-korea","category-uncategorized","tag-jeonbuk-hyundai","tag-k-league-classic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305","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\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}