Friday, November 7, 2014

Recap and Schedule Weekend Nov 7th UPDATED

So many heroics, with Son with a brace, Chungy with an assist, and .... Kim Bo Kyung making the bench.  *sigh*

UPDATED to reflect NBC for QPR+Yun.


DayTime (ET)PlayerClubOpponentTV
Friday3:00 PMLee Chung YongBoltonWiganBeIn
Saturday9:30 AMHong Jeong HoAugsburgSC PaderbornNone
Saturday9:30 AMSon Heung MinBayer LeverkusenMainzNone
Saturday9:30 AMKim Jin SuHoffenheimKolnNone
Saturday9:30 AMKoo Ja CheolMainz@LeverkusenNone
Saturday9:30 AMPark Joo HoMainz@LeverkusenNone
Saturday10:00 AMKim Bo KyungCardiff City@Birmingham CityNone
Saturday12:30 PMYun Suk YoungQPRMan CityNBC
Sunday11:00 AMSuk Hyun JunCD NacionalBenficaNone
Sunday11:00 AMKi Sung YuengSwanseaArsenalNBCSN
Sunday11:30 AMJi Dong WonDortmundGladbachGolTV


Lee Chung Yong turned in another strong performance for the Wanderers who have shown new life under Neil Lennon and another win over KBK's Cardiff City.  He had an assist and should start this weekend.

HJH remained an unused defensive sub and will most likely continue to do so.

Son Heung Min rose to the challenge.  While Leverkusen had been struggling, a tricky set piece gave Son room to blast a shot from way out into the top right corner.  And then moments later, Son got the ball on a breakaway, survived a tackle and slotted the ball just inside the bottom left corner.  Hopefully he takes that form to the weekend where he should start if he's not exhausted (he collapsed at the end from fatigue).

Kim Jin Su remains out and will probably miss KNT duty as well.

Koo Ja Cheol returned to starting XI and had a nice throughball to Okazaki who scored.  Unfortunately, he looked a bit rusty and had more energy than class.  He most likely will start again.  Park Joo Ho declared himself fit so it remains to be seen in what role he will play if he's healthy enough to start.  Perhaps he may start off on bench.

Kim Bo Kyung was added to the bench due to injury pushing him into bench warming service.  He's unfortunately the 19th man for now.

Yun Suk Young had a more mixed performance, albeit against Chelsea.  He had a hand in the first goal, when he tried to help out Caulker (I believe it was) who was beaten badly by Fabregas.  Unfortunately, that left Oscar open who took the chance well.  Yun improved in the second half with some good runs and no major defensive errors but his decision making on defense needs work.  He should start.

Suk wasn't in the squad last weekend.  Not sure whats going on there.

Ki was strong in defense vs Everton and they battled to a draw despite going down to 10 men.  Ki was so smooth getting the ball out of the danger zone with good tackles, and patient passes out of the back.  He will start again this weekend.

Ji remains hurt.