‘2025 Jeonbuk’ with ‘2011 Jeonbuk’, and now fights with yourself… ‘2016 Jeonbuk’

(Sports Chosun Park Sang -kyung) Now it is a fight with yourself.

2025 K League 1. It is Jeonbuk that regained the ‘absolute first class’. On March 16, he has been undefeated (15 wins and 5 draws) in 20 consecutive games in the K -League 1 after 2 to 2 draw. If you add up to three wins in the Korea Cup, you are undefeated for 23 consecutive games.

Jeonbuk’s undefeated record this season is tied for sixth in the K -League. Unfortunately, the team that shoulder shoulder is ‘2011 Jeonbuk’. At that time, Jeonbuk had undefeated 20 games from 18 K -League games and 2 playoffs. Jeonbuk is ahead of the regular season record.

Jeonbuk will win the FC Anyangjeon on the 7th and will be tied for fourth in the K -League. Daewoo Royals (now Busan I -Park) will be shoulder to shoulder with 21 consecutive games in the 21st game, from May 8 to August 31, 1991, and from May 10 to September 27, 1997.

The undefeated undefeated in 22 consecutive games, the second -largest record, is held by Jeju United and Jeonbuk. However, Jeju combines the results of 16 games in 2021 season, which was relegated to K -League 2, 6 games, which loved the K -League 1, and the K -League 2. Jeonbuk’s 22 consecutive undefeated undefeated began on September 6, 2014 and continued until the next season, April 18, 2015. It is true that there is an ambiguous aspect of the value of the record of ‘writing a single season’.

In this regard, the weight of the 33 consecutive matches written by Jeonbuk in 2016 is enormous. At that time, Jeonbuk wrote undefeated records from March 12 to October 2.

Currently, Jeonbuk’s momentum is no less than ‘2016 Jeonbuk’. There is no shaking since the beginning of the Asian Champions League (ACL) and after the trial and error. Even though he met a variable called Companyo’s injury, Jeon Jin -woo Tiago succeeded in holding a role as a solver. In recent years, Lee Seung -woo, Kwon Chang -hoon, Lee Young -jae, and other backup resources have been synergistic. In the meantime, the power became more solid as it was added to new foreign players such as Gambo and Chuma City. The gap with Kimcheon (39 victory points) with the current 54 victory points in 24 games has widened. There are 22 points with the final A -Marino line, the sixth place Gwangju FC (32 points). Jeonbuk will be confirmed early, regardless of the result of the 33rd round, if only two wins are added. If the second place and the victory point remain, the K -League 1 early championship can be aimed at the Final A.

Jeonbuk is aiming for Double, a simultaneous conqueror of the K -League 1 and Korea Cup this season. Since the first participation in the K-League in 1995, Jeonbuk has succeeded in double, including the Korea Cup and ACL, only once in 2020 (K-League 1-Korea Cup). In 2017-2021, he challenged the Korea Cup and ACL conquest during the K -League 1 5 consecutive defeat, but except for 2020, he was frustrated. This season, with the K -League 1 championship challenge, the key is how to achieve the Korean Cup in the semifinals.

Aside from the record, Jeonbuk is worth comparing with 2016. Jeonbuk, which has been undefeated since the opening of the season nine years ago, was literally ‘absolute first’. After the undefeated road was broken, he failed to win the K -League in the event of discipline of victory cuts, but he was comforted by winning the ACL. Jeonbuk, which seemed to be able to enter the top of this year as it was humiliated to go up to playoffs last year, is close to the championship by running undefeated for four months. If Jeonbuk writes the second double history since 2020, it will be remembered as a result of the 2016 Jeonbuk, which was considered the strongest in history.

By Park Sang -kyung, reporter ppark@sportschosun.com