Incheon, the “survival king” of the K-League, is still going through a rough season this season. The team was on the verge of being demoted by ranking the lowest in 33 regular league games, and lost to Jeju in its first Final B game and lost three consecutive games. For 11 seasons from 2013, the probability of being demoted to the lowest rank in the regular league was 81.5 percent, and coincidentally, Incheon was the only team that avoided demotion twice. Can Incheon, which has the upper hand in all games of Gwangju, Jeonbuk, Daejeon, and Daegu, which will face off in the Final B, demonstrate its “survival instinct” this season as well.
Reporter Joo Young-min: Shall we go to the K League? I’m realizing how much power has been leveled right now. In fact, the competition for the lead is fierce right now, but Incheon is not easy, even though it’s going fierce in the relegation zone.
Announcer Ju Si-eun: Yes, it fell a little.
Producer Park Jin-hyung: That’s right. In particular, since Jeonbuk lost just before this game, if Incheon had won, Jeonbuk and Incheon, so 11th and 12th places, could have used more hope of staying as the points were reduced by only two points, but unfortunately, Incheon failed to take advantage of the trend.
Announcer Ju Ji-eun: It’s too bad. It’s Incheon, the king of stay.
Reporter Joo Young-min: Incheon has never been to the second division so far, right?
Reporter Ha Sung-ryong: There was no second division.
Reporter Joo Young-min: You’ve never been to the second division.
Announcer Ju Ji-eun: The King of Remain.
Reporter Joo Young-min: At the bottom right now, I mean, I got caught in the Maginot Line, survived the promotion and playoffs, and kept doing this. Last season was very good this time. I think this season is the biggest crisis. Out of all the ones so far.
Reporter Ha Sung-ryong: In the case of Incheon, the biggest break-up is with Cho Sung-hwan, who has been leading the team to stay during the season and has made the team a strong team. At the same time, the team is a little shaky, and Incheon’s biggest problem this season is its scoring ability as well. Incheon has scored 33 goals in 34 games this season, including Incheon’s 2-1 loss to Jeju. It’s the only K-League team that has not scored a goal per game.
Reporter Joo Young-min: With Mugosa and Gerson… This kind of scoring ability is very disappointing.
Reporter Ha Sung-ryong: So I’m going to talk about that here, but Mugosa now has 14 goals,
Producer Park Jin-hyung: No. 1 in scoring.
Reporter Ha Sung-ryong: They’re tied for first in scoring.
Reporter Joo Young-min: Almost half of the team’s score.
Reporter Ha Sung-ryong: He’s scoring 14 goals with Ilyuchenko, and has Mugosa been the last five games? There are no goals. As Mugosa’s silence is prolonged, the team’s silence is getting longer, but the problem is that Mugosa scored 14 goals, which is 42 percent of the total goals. But there is no other player other than Mugosa to score, and Gerso is the second-highest scorer in the team. Gerso, who scored one goal against Jeju on the day, finally scored his fourth goal.
Producer Park Jin-hyung: Is that all you have to do?
Reporter Ha Sung-ryong: Yes, only four goals.
Reporter Joo Young-min: He stands out a lot in the play, but he didn’t score a lot of goals.
Reporter Ha Sung-ryong: Kim Do-hyuk scored three goals. That’s why there are no other players to score. Mugosa didn’t even start on the day, especially during the A-match period. Because of his physical condition. He showed a lot of good plays in the second half. Gerson’s goal was also Mugosa’s header, and the free kick scene was sharp before that. But Incheon is now like this because of its offense, and Yonichi left the game again, creating a gap in defense.
Incheon is in a bad situation right now, but there is an interesting statistic about the king of residual and survival mentioned earlier. I wrote it down here, can you introduce it?
Announcer Ju Ji-eun: Are you talking about this?
Reporter Ha Sung-ryong: Only exception Incheon.
PD Park Jin-hyung: So, after the promotion system came in, there were teams that were demoted and directly demoted until then, especially the 33rd round of the regular round. After that, all the last places were directly demoted. Except for Incheon. In nine out of a total of 11 seasons, the 12th place team in the regular round was directly demoted, only two times and two exceptions were Incheon. Incheon in the 2018 season and Incheon in the 2020 season.
Especially in the 2018 season, Incheon was really strong after winning four games in the last five final rounds,
Jussieun announcer: That’s right. It was like this.
PD Park Jin-hyung: There was another exception to the 2020 season because the direct relegation was already confirmed as Sangmu moved to his hometown, so there was only one team left for the relegation team, so there was a little gain there.
Announcer Ju Ji-eun: So what if Incheon wins all four of these games when there are four games left?
PD Park Jin-hyung: There’s a possibility. And especially at this time, they all have six points. It’s also very important to take away other people’s points. 메이저사이트
Reporter Ha Sung-ryong: And I don’t know if it’s a little bit of hope for Incheon, but I have a good hope. The only thing that we had in our matches was Jeju, but we lost to Jeju. Now the rest of the teams are all dominant in their matches with two wins and one draw against Gwangju, one draw against Jeonbuk, two wins and one loss against Daejeon, and one win and two draws against Daegu. I think we have to wait and see what kind of hope these steps will be.
Producer Park Jin-hyung: Incheon fans also believe in something, I personally was surprised to see if they had faith in it after the game.
Reporter Joo Young-min: I know. After the game, the fans encouraged the team with cheers and applause and said, “Don’t be afraid, trust yourself.”