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Former national striker Hwang Ui-jo (33, Antalya Spor) faced a big crisis.
His team, Alanyaspor, has been struggling with a five-game losing streak in the league, including a 0-1 home loss in the 29th round of the Turquoise Performance League in the 2024-2025 season against Bodrum on the 6th.
Alanyaspor, who has lost seven of their last eight games, has fallen to 17th place, the relegation zone, with 31 points. In the Super League, the bottom four (16th to 19th) teams out of the 19 teams will be relegated to the second division.
Currently, there are only three points difference between the 14th-ranked boardroom and the 15th-ranked Liesespor (34 points). It is a gap that can be reversed in the remaining seven games. However, the trend since February is the worst among the 19 teams. Since the appointment of Joao Pereira, former Sporting CP coach, as the new coach at the end of March, he has lost two consecutive games, and has not changed.
Alanyaspor led with an early first goal by Tony Vilhena in the 23rd minute of the first half in a home game against Galatasaray on the 10th of last month, and had a clear victory when his opponent Gunai Guibench left in the 45th minute, but lost 1-2 in a row in the second half.
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Hwang Ui-jo, who completely transferred from Nottingham Forest to Alanyaspor last summer, returned from injury last month, but is not adding much to the team. Since scoring his fourth and fifth goals of the season in a row against Gaziantep (3-0 win) in December last year, he has been silent for 14 consecutive games for four months.
He replaced Sergio Cordova in the 18th minute of the second half when he was 0-0 tight against the boardroom on the 6th, but finished the game empty-handed. In 27 minutes, he recorded only five ball touches, three passes, and one shot. Alanyaspor lost 0-1 in the 36th minute of the second half when he dedicated the opening goal to Ali Aitemur. Boardroom is former Jeonbuk head coach Jose Moraes.
Hwang Ui-jo has been a substitute in the second half of four consecutive games since he started against Riespor on March 2 and played full time in the 90th minute. There has been no effective shooting since the match against Adana (3-2 wins) on February 23.
Hwang Ui-jo has been silent for four months with five goals of the season, but he remains in second place in the team after Cordova (8 goals). This is one of the problems of Alanyaspor. Allanjaspor has the fourth-lowest scoring capacity in the league (29 games and 32 goals).
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Hwang Ui-jo has already experienced two relegations throughout his professional career. He experienced a K League 2 relegation in 2016 in Seongnam, a 'friendly team'. Hwang Ui-jo, who led the team's dramatic stay by exploding 16 J-League goals in Gamba Osaka, Japan in 2018, suffered League 2 relegation in the 2021-2022 season, his third year in Girondin Bordeaux. Bordeaux is currently in the fourth division due to financial difficulties.
Since then, Hwang Ui-jo, who has achieved his dream of entering the English Premier League (EPL) by joining Nottingham Forest, has gone through Olympiacos (Greece), Seoul (Korea), and Norwich City (England Championship). He made a strong impression by scoring five goals in the first half of the year after signing a complete transfer contract with Alanyaspor, who was linked on loan for the 2023-2024 season.
Meanwhile, Hwang Ui-jo was indicted in February on charges of violating the Special Act on the Punishment of Sexual Violence Crimes (video shooting) and sentenced to one year in prison and two years of probation. Last year, he was disqualified from the national team and faced the biggest career crisis.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
