Jeonbuk, which chose Forever instead of Lee Jung-hyo, clearly failed in the first round and then

Jeonbuk, which chose Forever instead of Lee Jung-hyo, clearly failed in the first round and then

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To be sure, Jeonbuk Hyundai could have chosen Lee Jung-hyo. However, the team chose Gus Foyet after skipping Lee Jung-hyo.

For Jeonbuk, which wants to become the best club in Asia beyond Korea, Foyet, a former EPL coach, may have been more attractive than Lee Jung-hyo, a former K-League unknown player.

However, while Lee Jung-hyo's Gwangju FC made it to the historical ACLE quarterfinals for a month after the opening, Foyet's Jeonbuk was also eliminated from the quarterfinals in ACL2, a lower competition, showing a clear contrast.

Jeonbuk lost 2-3 in the second leg of the 2024-2025 ACL2 quarterfinal against Sydney at the Sydney Football Stadium in Sydney, Australia on the 13th. Jeonbuk, which lost 0-2 in the first match at Mir Stadium in Yongin on the 6th, suffered a setback in its elimination from the quarterfinals by falling to 2-5 overall in the first and second matches.

Jeonbuk scored two goals first in the first half and matched a 2-2 aggregate score, but lost three points in the second half alone.

Jeonbuk has dreamed of rebuilding its prestigious family by appointing Foye ahead of this season. Jeonbuk, which is the most winning team in the K-League but only succeeded in surviving the K-League 1 after going through humiliating upgrade and playoff stages last season, raised high expectations by bringing in a "big name" named Foye, who was mentioned as a candidate for the Korean national team and even coached the EPL.

However, when I opened the lid, I found that this month has been lacking in both content and results. In the round of 16 ACLs, Port FC was defeated 5-0 overall in the first and second games. However, this soon turned out to be the result of the team's too weak opponent. At home, they had a 2-2 draw against Gwangju, 0-1 loss to rival Ulsan HD, 0-2 loss in the first game to Sydney, 0-1 loss to Gangwon FC, and 2-3 loss. They have had one draw and five losses in five consecutive games.

For Jeonbuk, it immediately sought to win the ACL2 title by bringing in Foyet, but its primary goal came to nothing. The result is not just bad. The match's contents are also different from the "new soccer" that foreign coaches had expected as they came to Korea with "sharp soccer" of monotonous cross-attack centered on long balls.

Jeonbuk naturally reminds of coach Lee Jung-hyo, who created the "Miracle in Gwangju" that happened on the previous day. After the end of the last season, it is public that Jeonbuk put Lee Jung-hyo on the final list of candidates and weighed him until the very last minute before appointing Foye. According to reports, Jeonbuk could choose Lee Jung-hyo, and Lee Jung-hyo can also transfer to the team. However, as Jeonbuk finally chose Foye, Lee never missed the helm of Gwangju.

Ironically, Lee, who has a much smaller budget and a worse squad, advanced to the quarterfinals with a lie-like 3-0 victory in the second round after losing 0-2 in the first round of the round of 16 to Vissel Kobe, who led Gwangju to the second straight J-League championship in the higher ACLE. The best results of the K-League in recent years have been achieved by the civic teams Gwangju and Lee Jung-hyo.

Already on February 23, Jeonbuk had a 2-2 draw against Gwangju at home. The draw to a team that could be a relative weakness of Gwangju at home was a match that seemed to have been tied for Jeonbuk, and a match that seemed to have won even if it was tied for Gwangju.

Of course, the season has only started for a month and Lee Jung-hyo has led Gwangju for several years, while Foyet has only been appointed to Jeonbuk for three months, which inevitably makes a difference in organizational performance. The season is long and there are many more games to go.

Nevertheless, it is clear that Jeonbuk's first result, which did not choose coach Lee Jung-hyo but chose to foretell through the two contrasting results of Gwangju's advance to the ACLE quarterfinals and Jeonbuk's elimination of the ACL2 quarterfinals, failed. 토토사이트

Basically, Foyet's first goal was to win ACL2, the second goal was to win the FA Cup, and the third goal was to win the K-League, but he missed the first goal, while Gwangju's Lee Jung-hyo gave Gwangju a huge prize of 2.6 billion won for his miraculous advance to the ACLE quarterfinals.

Can Jeonbuk make a right choice for last winter? Time will give the answer, but the contrast between Lee Jung-hyo and Foyet gave a clear answer of "failure" in the first place. Jeonbuk desperately wants Foyet to change it in the second and third rounds.