In this season's AFC Champions League, in addition to the phenomenon of the Chinese Super League youth army participating in the "drag on the excitement of the event", there are also non-top league teams like K2 (Korean Second Division) team Jeonnam Tianlong. However, as the Korean FA Cup champions, they still have hard power. No, in the match against the Australian Premier League champions Melbourne City, they staged a magical scene.
In the last round, Melbourne City just beat the Jeonnam Dragons 2-1 and occupied the first place in the group. However, in the fourth round of the group stage, the Jeonnam Tianlong did not disarm, but learned the lesson of the last defeat, making a big fuss in the midfield, making Melbourne City attack inefficient. Jeonnam Tianlong apparently realized that the last 5-4-1 bus counter-attack strategy did not work, so the game placed 6 people in the midfield, strengthening the control of the scene. Although it was only a Korean B team, they saw the opponent's rougher foot technique, so the game was slightly ahead of the scene.
Melbourne City only really got a chance to score in the final minutes of the game, and they were broken by number one star Jamie McLaren in the 88th minute. However, The Jeonnam Dragons made a desperate bet in the last minute, and the substitute high school striker Kacharava won the empty goal in injury time, and finally drew to Melbourne City to grab a valuable point. As the boss of the Australian Super League, this draw has obviously made them lose face. Although The Jeonnam Tianlong did not have any chance to qualify, it successfully disrupted the situation, so that the Australian Super League boss who changed 3 points to 1 point lost the top spot in the group.
After the draw, Jeonnam Tianlong also unexpectedly helped Thai Super League team Baton United to take advantage of the opportunity to win a big victory over Philippine United City, surpassing Melbourne City in points to reach the top of the group. A cold one changed the exit situation in Group G.