Is it a rebounding Pohang or an undefeated Ulsan...K League's 183rd East Coast Derby clash
Is it a rebounding Pohang or an undefeated Ulsan...K League's 183rd East Coast Derby clash
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Pohang Steelers and Ulsan HD will play their 183rd "East Coast Derby" in the K League 1 professional football.
Pohang and Ulsan will face each other in the sixth round of Hana Bank's K League 1 2025 at 4:30 p.m. on the 29th at Pohang Steelyard.
Currently, Pohang ranks 10th with 5 points and Ulsan ranks 2nd with 10 points.
Pohang, led by head coach Park Tae-ha, was shaken by its worst start this season.
First of all, he was frustrated by failing to advance to the round of 16 of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League Elite (ACLE).
In the newly opened league, he lost four games without a win (two draws and two losses) and lost his pride.
Pohang, which had been so difficult, recently scored its first victory.
During the A-match break on the 22nd, he won a 3-2 come-from-behind victory against Gwangju FC in the fourth round thanks to Kang Hyun-je's theater goal just before the end of the game.
Pohang has rebounded with a winning streak of the season, and plans to pull the reins to run on a winning streak.
Ulsan, led by head coach Kim Pan-gon, had a rough start as much as Pohang.
He suffered in the ACLE League stage and knelt down to promotion team FC Anyang in the league's opening game.
However, he quickly regained his reputation as the defending champion of the K League 1.
Ulsan has been undefeated in the last four games (2-0 wins), including the match against Daejeon Hana Citizen (2-0 wins), the match against Jeonbuk Hyundai (1-0 wins), the match against Jeju SK (2-0 wins), and the match against Suwon FC (1-1 draw).
The defense team, led by captain Kim Young-kwon, Kang Sang-woo, Seo Myung-kwan and Yoon Jong-kyu, remains solid enough to concede only one run during four games.
It is also encouraging that Cho Hyun-woo, the gatekeeper who suffered a broken nose, returned wearing a mask.
The showdown between Pohang and Ulsan, which will be held this weekend, is the 183rd East Coast Derby in the league.
Pohang has the upper hand with 65 wins, 54 draws and 63 losses in all 182 games.
However, Ulsan overwhelms Pohang with five wins, three draws and two losses in the last 10 games.
The previous showdown between the two teams was the 2024 Hana Bank Korea Cup final at Seoul World Cup Stadium in November last year.
At that time, Pohang won 3-1 after an extra-inning battle with Ulsan, achieving its second consecutive Korea Cup title and sixth career championship.
Attention is focusing on whether Pohang or Ulsan will laugh in the East Coast Derby, one of the representative rival matches in professional soccer.
Meanwhile, 메이저사이트 the 16th round of the K League is full of interesting matches as well as East Coast Derby.
On the 29th, FC Seoul and Daegu FC, which are competing for the top spot, and Daejeon, which took the lead, and Gwangju FC, which suffered its first league defeat in the previous game, will meet.
On the 30th, Jeju and Suwon FC, which are at the bottom, Anyang, the promotion team, Jeonbuk, which is in desperate need of a rebound, and Gimcheon Sangmu and Gangwon FC, the main characters of last season's sensation, will clash.