K-League championship final for 3 consecutive years… Is it Jeonbuk’s 5th consecutive defeat or Ulsan’s comeback?

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Dong-chan Kim = The winning team of the K-League 1 of professional soccer will be screened on the final day of the league for three consecutive years.

As of the 29th, Jeonbuk Hyundai is leading with 73 points (21 wins, 10 draws and 6 losses), while Ulsan Hyundai is chasing behind with 71 points (20 wins, 11 draws and 6 losses).

The only remaining match between the two teams is the final match, which will be held on December 5, the last day of the league.

At 3 pm on December 5, Jeonbuk will play a home game alongside Jeju United and Ulsan FC against Daegu FC.

If Jeonbuk wins this match, they can achieve their 5th consecutive league title regardless of Ulsan’s result.

If Jeonbuk draws and Ulsan wins, the two teams will have the same score of 74 points.

In the end, for Ulsan to win, Jeonbuk must lose to Jeju and Ulsan must win.

The two teams were tied with 70 points, but in the match on the 28th, Jeonbuk defeated Daegu 2-0, while Ulsan drew 0-0 with Suwon Samsung, widening the difference by two points.

This is the third consecutive year that the K-League 1 winners have been decided on the last day of the league, following 2019 and 2020.

In 2019, Ulsan had an advantage with 79 points and 76 points in Jeonbuk ahead of the final match.

However, in the final match, Ulsan lost 1-4 to Pohang Steelers and Jeonbuk defeated Gangwon FC 1-0, and the score was tied with 79 points.

Also, Jeonbuk scored 72 goals, beating Ulsan, which had 71 goals, by one goal, setting the record for 3 consecutive league victories and the most wins (7 times).

Before the final match last year, Jeonbuk led with 57 points and Ulsan with 54 points.

In the final match, Jeonbuk lost and Ulsan had to win to equalize the points, but Jeonbuk defeated Daegu FC 2-0 and defeated Ulsan, which defeated Gwangju FC 3-0, to achieve the feat of losing four consecutive games for the first time in the league.

Jeonbuk is the team that holds the record for the most wins in the history of eight, while Ulsan, on the other hand, has the record for most runners-up in the history of the league (9).

In particular, in the final of the Korea Football Association (FA) Cup last year, Jeonbuk defeated Ulsan and climbed to the top.

Jeonbuk has the advantage this year.

In fact, Jeonbuk, which has a strong chance of winning just by a draw, is poised to unleash its first five consecutive defeats and ninth win at home against Jeju.

They met Jeju three times this year and recorded three draws without winning a single match, but they are more relaxed than Ulsan, who must win and then wait for Jeonbuk to lose.

Ulsan is inferior in the opponent’s record with 1 win and 2 losses this year against Daegu in the final match.

Ulsan, which manager Hong Myung-bo took over this year, was eliminated in the quarterfinals in both the AFC Champions League and the FA Cup this year.

Ulsan, who reached the top of the ACL last year, but is in danger of ending this year without a military officer, needs a ‘miracle’ on the last day of the league.

If they finish runner-up again this year, they will become the main character of the ‘unfortunate record’ of being runner-up 10 times for the first time in the league.

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