Professional football Suwon Samsung played a miracle of winning a ticket to advance to the round of 16 dramatically by defeating Vissel Kobe in the final match of the 2020 Asian Football Federation (AFC) Champions League (ACL) group stage.
Suwon won 2-0 in the final 4th round of Group G of the ACL Group Stage with Vissel Kobe held at Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, Qatar on the 4th (Korean time), with a scorer in clinical consultation with Kim Kun-hee.
Suwon, who was on the verge of being eliminated from the group stage at the bottom of the group, scored 5 points (+1 goals) with a victory on this day, defeating Guangzhou Hengda (5 points, 0 goals), and confirmed to advance to the round of 16 as second place in the group.
Suwon, who needed to win more than two goals for the miracle of the round of 16, could not break the'zero balance' in the first half.
At the beginning of the second half, Suwon took out Park Sang-hyuk and put in Kim Kun-hee, and this card quickly became effective.
In the 4th minute of the second half, Kim Kun-hee finished Lee Gi-je's corner kick with a header to score the final goal.
After a corner kick in the 23rd minute of the second half, Suwon scored a penalty with an opponent's handball foul in a pitfall situation, and Sanghyup Lim, who played the kicker, scored.
With the requirement to advance to the round of 16, Suwon showed concentration to the end and kept the lead by two goals.
With this, Suwon and Ulsan Hyundai out of the four K-League 1 teams advancing to the ACL made it to the round of 16.
Group F 1st place Ulsan at 11 p.m. Korean time in Group E 2nd place Melbourne Victory (Australia), Group G 2nd place Suwon in Group H 1st place Yokohama F Marinos (Japan) at 11 p.m. Korean time Pay.
Jeonbuk Hyundai, who had already failed to advance to the round of 16 in the 5th match, ended the final match of the group stage with a win.
Jeonbuk won 2-0 with 2 goals in the final 6th round of Group H of Shanghai Sanggang (China) in the ACL Group Stage on this day.
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