Friday, January 10, 2020

Weekend Preview Jan 11 and Midweek Recap Jan 7

Winter break is almost over. A fair amount of friendlies today and maybe a handful more this weekend.



DayTimePlayerClubOpponentTV
Saturday10:00 AMKi Sung YuengNewcastle@WolverhamptonNBC Gold
Saturday11:30 AMHwang Ui JoBordeauxLyonBeIn
Saturday12:30 PMSon Heung MinTottenhamLiverpoolNBC
Saturday2:00 PMSuk Hyun JunReims@NimesBeIn Esp
Winter BreakJeong Woo YeongFreiburg
Winter BreakKwon Chang HoonFreiburg
Winter BreakJi Dong WonMainz
Winter BreakLee Kang InValencia



Ki Sung Yueng-- More concrete noise about Newcastle wanting to sell Ki, but I'm not sold that he wants to give up on his PL salary. He picked up an "injury" last weekend so it sounds like he's out for tomorrow but we'll see if that injury is real or protecting a potential transfer move.


Hwang Ui Jo-- He's back and available. We'll see in what role with another attacker signed and some time off, or if he's put on the bench until he's back up to speed.


Son Heung Min-- He should start.


Suk Hyun Jun-- Came on for final minutes in what appears to be to get some fresh legs in for final minutes as they were a man down. So maybe he missed last weekend for other reasons.


Jeong Woo Yeong-- With KNT U23 team.


Kwon Chang Hoon-- He had a muscle issue that hampered his start to winter training, but he played the second half of one of two friendly matches vs 'Gladbach. He looks pretty good in the first ten minutes or so that I've seen.


Ji Dong Won-- He got a quarter of a match minutes as he started a friendly. He looked very rusty as his positioning and reaction times were definitely off. He did have a couple flashes with some good passes and seemed to move ok but it will be some time I think before he's back to his prior level.


Lee Kang In-- He did travel but it seems just to get some warm weather training with the side. Reports say still a couple weeks away.