Lee Jae-won's fighting spirit final goal Suwon FC won 1-0 over Anyang! 9th place on the brink saved the remaining sparkAttention is focused on the results of the match against Gwangju Ulsan
Nov 22, 2025
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Suwon FC won 1-0 away to Anyang in the 37th round of Hana Bank's K League 1 at Anyang Stadium at 2 p.m. on the 22nd.
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-FC Anyang (4-4-2) = Kim Da-sol (GK) / Kim Dong-jin - Kwon Kyung-won - Lee Chang-yong - Lee Tae-hee / Yukichi - Thomas - Hanaram - Kim Min-ho / Mota-Mateus
-Suwon FC (4-5-1) = Ahn Junsu (GK) / Lee Si-young - Choi Kyu-baek - Lee Hyun-yong - Hwang In-taek / Kim Kyung-min - Noh Kyung-ho - Han Chan-hee - Lee Jae-won - Willian / Ssabak
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On this day, midfielder Luan was absent from Suwon due to accumulated warnings. Sabak, the league's top scorer and MVP candidate, was one-top. With two games remaining, including this game, it was a game in which Suwon, ranked 10th in the league, had to win three points unconditionally. It was fierce from the start of the first half. In the 8th minute of the first half, Suwon Willian collapsed in a collision with Anyang Lee Tae-hee. Suwon's counterattack and Yukichi's shot, which stole Kim Kyung-min's ball, were blocked by Ahn Jun-su's good defense and narrowly missed, and Yukichi's shot, which snatched the second ball in a corner kick chance, was blocked once again.
In the 18th minute of the first half, the flow was over to Suwon. Lee Jae-won was inundated by the deflected fire after Roh Kyung-ho, who received Willian's sharp free-kick with his head, fired a mid-range shot. He cut the net with a low and fast mid-range shot. Coach Kim Eun-joong of the bench clenched his fist. Suwon took a 1-0 lead.
In the 31st minute of the first half, Anyang coach Yoo Byung-hoon made it clear that he would make a chase goal by putting in another young gun, Moon Sung-woo, born in 2003, except for Kim Min-ho, who gave him a chance to make his debut in the first division. In the 33rd minute of the first half, Mota's free kick, players from both teams competed fiercely. Anyang's corner kick, Suwon Salim Lee Jae-won, blocked Kwon Kyung-won, who was inundated, overcoming the crisis of losing points.
Ahn Jun-su's super save, which is devoted to Suwon after delaying his enlistment as a managing director in Gimcheon, shone. In the 35th minute of the first half, Ahn Jun-su blocked Mota's rush once again. In the 40th minute of the first half, Ahn Jun-su caught a right footed shot by Moon Sung-woo, who took over Anyang's fierce counterattack and Matheus' kill pass. In the 41st minute of the first half, Ahn Jun-su flew in and blocked Yukichi's right-footed cannonball shot once again. Anyang persistently aimed for a comeback goal with 9 shots and 7 effective shots, but failed to achieve its goal. Suwon, which recorded three shots and three effective shots, finished the first half with a 1-0 lead.
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In the second half, Anyang put in Kim Young-chan without defender Lee Chang-yong, who played 300 games on the day. Anyang's offensive aiming for the equalizer was hot from the beginning of the second half. In the third minute of the second half, Thomas flooded the ball that Ahn Jun-su dropped while handling the air ball, but it failed. In the fourth minute of the second half, Anyang's consecutive corner kick chances and Kim Young-chan's header missed immediately after Yukichi's corner kick. In the fifth minute of the second half, Kim Young-chan desperately cleared Suwon's attack and Kim Kyung-min's sharp cross.
In the 9th minute of the second half, VAR was activated to check Lee Hyun-yong's handball foul in Anyang's attack chance, which followed shortly after Lee Hyun-yong collided with Mota and received a yellow card, but it was judged that there was no problem, and the equalizer was canceled as a series of shots by Mateus and Lee Tae-hee following Kwon Kyung-won's long-roin failed. Anyang's wave offensive continued. Foreign players such as Yukichi and Mateus ran tirelessly. However, defenders such as Lee Hyun-yong, Choi Kyu-baek and Hwang In-taek threw themselves to overcome the crisis.
Anyang raised the level of attack again in the 16th minute of the second half by removing Yukichi and putting in Yago. In the 18th minute of the second half, Suwon added Kim Tae-han and Andrigo instead of Hwang In-taek and Kim Kyung-min, expressing their will to score three points. With Anyang's defense tied up the wrap tightly, Willian and Andrigo actively moved, but they rarely found an additional goal opportunity. In the 29th minute of the second half, coach Kim Eun-joong added veteran Ahn Hyun-beom to speed up the attack without Willian, who played a lot. Sabak's header hit the post following Andrigo's corner kick in the 31st minute of the first half. It was recorded as the first shot in the second half. Kim Young-chan's header following Anyang Kim Dong-jin's corner kick in the 32nd minute of the second half missed once again. In the 35th minute of the second half, Han Chan-hee's shot following Suwon's counterattack and Andrigo's cross failed. In the 36th minute of the second half, Ahn Hyun-beom's shot after an unstoppable rush by peeling off the Anyang defender missed the post unfortunately. Offside was declared, but the veteran's fighting spirit was brilliant.
In the 39th minute of the second half, head coach Kim Eun-joong threw a bold game plan that eliminated the 'scoring king' that received the mark of concentration. Instead of Sabak and Noh Kyung-ho, Choi Chi-woong and Lee Joon-seok were put in to revitalize the battlefield. Suwon secured a 1-0 victory and three points, saving the spark of remaining in ninth place.
Ulsan HD, the ninth-ranked team, which played one less game, scored 44 points and Suwon FC accumulated three valuable points on the day, reaching 42 points. We have to wait for the results of Ulsan's away trip to Gwangju at 4:30 p.m. on this day. If Ulsan loses or draws, the fate of the playoffs will be determined in the final match. If Ulsan wins, the difference of 5 points will be five points, and Ulsan, ranked 9th, will remain and Suwon, ranked 10th, will go to the playoffs regardless of the final result. The bottom of the K-League 1 is automatically relegated to the K-League 2, and the playoff is a method in which the winner of the K-League 1 ranking 11th, K-League 2 ranking 2nd, and K-League 2 ranking 4th-5th (semi-PO) plays PO with the third place, and then the winner plays the 10th place in the K-League 1 and the PO 2nd place.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
