K League 2 Busan Defeats Chungnam Asan 2 - 1
K League 2 Busan defeats Chungnam Asan 2-1... 5 points behind Gimcheon, ‘promotion in sight!’
Cheonan and Seongnam take 3-1 and get out of last place... Paulino 2G 1A "One Man Show"
Busy Bucheon and Anyang draw 1-1... Nilsson Jr. equalizer
Busan I"Park of the professional soccer K-League 2 (second division) defeated Asan, South Chungcheong Province and took one step closer to winning the championship and promotion.
Busan won 2-1 over Asan, Chungcheongnam-do in the Hana One Q K-League 2 2023 Round 36 away game held at Yi Sun-sin Stadium in Asan, Chungcheongnam-do on the 21st.
Busan, who went undefeated in 8 games (7 wins, 1 draw), further solidified its lead by accumulating 66 points.
The gap with 2nd place (61 points) Gimcheon Sangmu has widened to 5 points.
Busan has 3 games left and Gimcheon has only 4 games left.
The team that wins K League 2 is automatically promoted to K League 1.
Chungnam Asan remained in 10th place (39 points).
Busan scored the first goal in the 5th minute of the first half with Kim Jeong-hwan"s right-footed curling shot, and 9 minutes later, Chungnam Asan"s Park Dae-hoon"s shot hit the defense and bounced high toward the goal, giving up the equalizer.
In the 8th minute of the second half, Busan scored the winning goal by calmly shooting a rebound when a teammate"s header was blocked by the goalkeeper during a corner kick situation.
At Cheonan Stadium, the home team, Cheonan City FC, defeated Seongnam FC, a 10-man team, 3-1, led by Paulino"s multiple goals.
Cheonan won for the first time in three games since the game against Jeonnam Dragons (3-1 win) on the 23rd of last month and succeeded in getting out of last place.
Cheonan rose to 12th place (24 points), and Ansan Greeners (22 points), who played one less game, fell to 13th place, the lowest.
Paulino led the way to Cheonan"s victory by scoring his 7th and 8th goals of the season and assisting the key goal.
Seongnam was ranked 9th (41 points).
Paulino, who has played 16 games this season, has 12 attack points (8 goals, 4 assists).
Paulino was involved in 12 of Cheonan"s 32 goals.
In the 45th minute of the first half, Paulino received Jeong Seok-hwa"s penetration pass and shot with his left foot from in front of the goal area to score the first goal.
Paulino, who scored in the 10th minute of the second half to further tilt the game towards Cheonan, even assisted with a ground ball cross that led to Motta"s key goal during a counterattack in the 32nd minute of the second half.
Seongnam"s defeat deepened when veteran striker Lee Jong-ho received a red card and was sent off in the 14th minute of the first half when the team was trailing 0-2.
Seongnam avoided permanent defeat with Yang Taeyang"s consolation goal in the 39th minute of the second half.
At Bucheon Stadium, Bucheon FC and FC Anyang, who are challenging to advance to the playoffs for promotion, drew 1-1.
It"s a draw that feels like a defeat for both teams.
Bucheon could have risen to 3rd place if they had won that day, but they ended up in a draw and stayed in 4th place (54 points).
Bucheon"s hopes of reaching second place and advancing directly to the relegation playoffs have disappeared.
Bucheon is in a position where it is difficult to be sure of a performance higher than 5th, which is the Maginot line for advancing to the promotion playoffs (3rd to 5th).
Anyang, who had been flying high until the mid-season but fell into a long slump from the end of August, recorded a draw in 8 consecutive games (3 draws, 5 losses) until this day, and remained in 8th place in the standings (45 points).
Anyang took the lead in the first minute through Ahn Yong-woo"s goal.
In a counterattack situation, Yago cleverly beat the opponent"s defense and made a pass, and Ahn Yong-woo shook the Bucheon net with a left-footed shot that slightly changed direction.
Bucheon leveled the game with Nilsson Jr."s exquisite header in the 13th minute of the second half.
Kaz took a low free kick from the left, and Nilsson Jr. at the near post fell and touched his head, which bounced high and was sucked into the corner of the opposite goal.