And we are back!

When news broke out that Ki Sung-yueng would be in Seoul’s matchday squad, the buildup to this match was focused towards the ‘Double Dragons’ consisting of Ki & Lee Chung-yong as the name ‘Yong/Yeung’ means ‘dragon’. Both of these players were an influential pair when they started out in FC Seoul so there was a lot of intrigue between these players now standing in opposing sides. Despite that fact, a picture was taken of the two just chilling out on the bench with smiles on their faces as they reconnect before the match.

As expected, Selangor dominated given how PJ City would usually approach: Sitting deep, absorbing and looking to pounce on the counter attack. However, there is a problem for them to make this effective which we’ll go into later.

Currently under poor form, Gwangju looked anything but that against an FC Seoul side looking to continue their resurgence. Gwangju had plenty of positive energy in theri attack as they took on defenders looking to get further inside on Seoul’s final third. They mostly attack down on the right to get their tenacious winger Eom Won-sang more involved. Even Felipe dropped deep a little bit to help build up the attacks and took on a few defenders on his own.

Finally after 15 attempts, Incheon finally got their first victory of the season, their first win in the league since a 2-0 win over Sangju Sangmu last November. They had to dig really deep to keep hold of their precarious one-goal lead thanks to Stefan Mugosa’s first-time strike on 30 minutes. Incheon had possession early on in the match, but afterwards they had to be in their box to defend whatever Daegu had to offer. There wasn’t a distinct disciplined defensive shape deployed as it was mostly all hands on-deck mode when they went back defending. The defenders showed excellent bravery in getting their bodies in the way of Daegu’s shots as they kept on sliding in front of them

You would expect the usual suspects to start for the Horangi with Junior Negrao leading the frontline and Yoon Bit-garam being the creative spark in midfield given how high the profile of this match is. But head coach Kim Do-hoon perhaps surprised everyone with the line-up he put out with Norweigian striker Bjorn Johnsen & Koh Myong-jin preferred over Junior & Bit-garam respectively as they are two out of five changes made to the side.

Once he gets going, he really gets going. Being one of the heroes of Busan IPark’s entertaining 4-2 victory at Gangwon FC last week, Lee Dong-Jun emerged as a hero again and is now in hot form after helping Busan to a 2-0 win over a hapless FC Seoul side for the Royals first (and maybe overdue) victory at home as it also buried the demons of Busan’s defeat in the promotion-relegation playoffs two years ago against the very same side.