Thursday, November 1, 2018

Weekend Preview Nov 3 and Midweek Recap Oct 30

Well mixed bag with Lee Kang In making first team debut vs other young kids not getting a chance. LKI played 70ish minutes out wide in the left and had some decent moments from what I gather including a shot off the post. Hopefully that showing despite playing out of position opens up more chances with the first team later in the season. Conversely, Bayern really struggled vs 4th tier opponents and so Jeong Woo Yeong never got off the bench and Paik Seung Ho didn’t even make squad though I’m not sure if he was eligible given non EU quotas.

Note the weird start times with DST still not in sync and a really late start for Tottenham.



DayTimePlayerClubOpponentTV
Saturday10:30 AMJi Dong WonAugsburgNurnbergFox Match Pass
Saturday10:30 AMKoo Ja CheolAugsburgNurnbergFox Match Pass
Saturday11:00 AMKi Sung YuengNewcastleWatfordNBC Gold
Saturday3:00 PMKwon Chang HoonDijonNimes
Saturday3:00 PMSuk Hyun JunReimsMonacoBeIn Play
Saturday3:30 PMSon Heung MinTottenham@WolvesCNBC



Ji Dong Won-- I don’t know his health but with short week, I don’t expect change yet.


Koo Ja Cheol-- Started and played 65 vs his old team. They advanced but first reports were that Koo didn’t play great. He should be involved this weekend but with some attackers scoring and quite a few minutes recently, probably off the bench Saturday.


Ki Sung Yueng-- Was a good sub showing be enough to start? Apparently Rafa is stuck on Diame so I’m guessing not but we will see but hopefully he’s earned a bench spot.


Suk Hyun Jun-- Played 72 or so but still didn’t score.  Don’t know how well he did but I imagine it’s back to the bench Saturday.


Son Heung Min-- Finally Son got scoring with two nicely taken goals off of questionable West Ham defense. Though errors gave him that chance, he had made smart runs to take advantage of them.  The lack of scoring was clearly starting to weigh on Son and Poch with both mentioning the relief. Unfortunately, the goals didn’t unlock super Son as he continued to make some silly errors and decisions but a pretty good showing overall. Probably not enough to start this weekend but it’s unclear how they’ll rotate with CL next week. My gut says bench then start but two goals will certainly not hurt his chances for minutes.