'Lack of Scoring' Will Kim Ki-dong's Seoul, Klimala Be a 'Solver'?

'Lack of Scoring' Will Kim Ki-dong's Seoul, Klimala Be a 'Solver'?

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The "2025 Hana Bank K League 1" has already reached a halfway point. However, Seoul's scoring ability, which has been stigmatized as the "lowest score in the league," has not improved, and its agony is deepening. Could this season's Seoul, which Kim Ki-dong is trying to write, have a "happy ending"?
# Start: Seoul's 'Winning Candidate' Looking Higher
Coach Kim Ki-dong, who had a successful first season with 55 goals, the third-place score in the league, and Seoul, who scored 14 points among them, left the team.
However, Moon Sun-min, Jung Seung-won, and Kim Jin-soo were recruited, and key players such as Lingard, Yazan, and Kim Joo-sung remained, looking higher with the evaluation of a "complete squad."
The front line became the team's "last puzzle," and Cho Young-wook, who was connected to several players but failed to recruit them until the beginning of the season, filled the vacancy.
Although there were concerns about the front line even though it was considered one of the "championship candidates" before the opening, expectations continued from last season were even higher. The belief that there are other players who can sufficiently solve the ups and downs was ahead.
# Development: Lack of scoring ability? "Without teeth, with gums" undefeated
He started with a loss in the away game of Jeju in the opening game, but recovered his mood with a come-from-behind victory in the home opener against Anyang in the second round, recording "seven consecutive games undefeated."
Before the start of March, Seoul succeeded in recruiting foreign striker Banks and expected to compete with Cho Young-wook and end concerns and concerns about the front line.
Even though he was undefeated in seven games, concerns about the "lack of scoring" continued to follow Seoul's tag, including 0 points in three games, and Cho Young-wook, who should serve as a "solver," scored his first goal, but was disappointed in terms of offense, including the number of shots and expected points (xG).
It was difficult for Banks to take the opportunity to play due to the overlapping sense of the actual game and small injuries. Nevertheless, Lingard, Moon Sun-min, and Jung Seung-won continued to accumulate points "with their gums without teeth" amid the performance of the defense team, which was leading the "league's lowest score."
# Crisis: Unending 'Striker' Sloppiness, Longer 'Lowest Score'

Since then, the unbeaten streak has come to an end due to bad injuries, and it has begun to go downhill. Cho Young-wook, whose shooting ability and movement were strong, was not threatening at all in the box, and his shooting attempts were reduced.
Banks, who has excellent physicality and strength in connecting with aerial balls, expected to become a "flame of rebound" as his form gradually rose, but he was disappointed that there were few opportunities to use aerial balls in front of the goal. 메이저놀이터
In the heat map, Cho Young-wook was often located in the right half-space, but he did not show any significant productivity, and Banks also appeared to come down to the half-space to link, but it did not lead to a good finish.