With Incheon on the verge of being demoted again this season, he has been a troubleshooter with 14 goals in 34 games. Even though he did not have adequate support for the second team, he alone was responsible for 14 goals, or 42 percent of the 33 goals his team scored.
Mugosa was far from being the top scorer despite his consistent performance. However, due to the crisis of his team’s demotion, he has no time to pay attention to the race for the top scorer.
Yago (Ulsan)’s pursuit of Liulchenko and Mugosa is also fierce with 12 goals.
Yago, who scored nine goals for Gangwon FC this season and moved to Ulsan through the summer transfer market, has only scored three goals since then.
Although the firepower was lower than in the first half, it is possible to drive at any time, so the gap between the two goals is enough to catch up.
On top of that, if Ulsan, the leader, is confirmed to win the title early, it is possible to drive Yago’s top scorer in the remaining games. With the professional soccer K League 1 nearing the end of the season, attention is being paid to whether a foreign top scorer will come out in four years.
The top scorer in the K League 1 has been a native striker for the last three seasons.
Starting with Joo Min-gyu (Ulsan, then Jeju) in 2021, Cho Kyu-sung (Mit Willan, then Jeonbuk) in 2022 and Joo Min-gyu in 2023, domestic strikers have won the top scorer for three consecutive seasons.
Junio (then Ulsan) was the last foreign striker to become the top scorer in 2020.
This year, the K League 1 scoring competition seems to be focused on outsiders.
While Joo Min-kyu (8 goals), who has been the top scorer twice in the past three years, has slowed down, foreign strikers are showing off their sharp toes.
With only four games left in the K League 1 this season, Ilyuchenko (Seoul) and Mugosa (Incheon) are leading the scoring with 14 goals each as of the 34th round.
In terms of the number of games played, Ilyuchenko (33 games) is the top scorer with fewer games than Mugosa (34 games).
Both are foreign strikers with deep bones on the domestic stage.
Ilyuchenko, who has played in Seoul since 2019 after passing through Pohang Steelers and Jeonbuk Hyundai, has improved his scoring ability by meeting Kim Ki-dong, who was his teacher in Pohang this season.
Ilyuchenko, who ranked second in the scoring rankings with 19 goals in 2020, struggled after moving to Seoul in 2022 after passing through Jeonbuk.
He scored only nine goals in the 2022 season and five in the 2023 season. 먹튀검증
However, he completely recovered his old skills this season. With Jesse Lingard, a former member of the English national team, the team’s offense has dispersed, and it is said that Ilyuchenko has regained his decisive power.
Mugosa has also been playing on the domestic stage since 2018, except for the days of Vissel Kobe in the J League 1 of Japan’s professional football in 2022.
He has scored double-digit goals every season except in 2021 and 2023 when he returned from playing for Kobe.