Munich beat Mainz 3-1… Undefeated in 8 consecutive opening games
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Kim Min-jae and Lee Jae-seong were captured together on camera when Mainz scored a 1-2 goal in the Bundesliga 8th round match between Bayern Munich and Mainz on the 22nd. AFP Yonhap News Kim Min-jae (Bayern Munich) and Lee Jae-seong (Mainz), who contributed to Korean soccer’s second consecutive win in the two-game international match in October, played a Korean derby in the German Bundesliga as soon as they returned to their teams. While national team coach Jürgen Klinsmann had an intuition, it was Kim Min-jae who smiled brightly.
Kim Min-jae and Lee Jae-seong competed as starters for Munich and Mainz, respectively, in the 8th round of the 2023-24 Bundesliga season held at the Meva Arena in Mainz, Germany on the 22nd (Korean time). It was the first Korean derby held in the Bundesliga this season. On the 16th of last month, Mainz and Stuttgart, where Jung Woo-young plays, faced each other in the third round, but the two players did not face off as Jung Woo-young was selected to the Asian Games national team.
Kim Min-jae and Lee Jae-seong, who had previously played together at Jeonbuk Hyundai in the K League 1, clashed as opposing teams for the first time on the European stage.
Lee Jae-sung played the role of supporting Mainz’s frontline striker Ludovic Azork until the 18th minute of the second half before being replaced by Aymen Barkok, while Kim Min-jae played the full time as Munich’s central defender with Matthijs De Licht.
As a result, Munich won 3-1 and went undefeated in the opening 8 games (6 wins, 2 draws) and took 3rd place. Leverkusen is in 1st place with 7 wins and 1 draw, and Stuttgart is in 2nd place with 7 wins and 1 loss. On the other hand, Mainz finished in 17th place, in the relegation zone, with no wins, 2 draws, and 6 losses in the opening 8 games.
Munich gained momentum in the 11th minute of the first half when Kingsley Coman’s right-footed shot from the space on the right side of the opponent’s box, looking at the opposite goal, hit the net. Mainz’s counterattack was also formidable. Two minutes later, Lee Jae-seong connected Danny da Costa’s cross from the right side with an exquisite header, but the ball was barely pushed away by the goalkeeper and hit the post.
Munich, having overcome the crisis, scored an additional point in the 16th minute of the first half. Jamal Musiala’s ball into the box passed through the heads of Konrad Reimer and Leon Goretzka to Harry Kane in front of the goal, and Kane finished with another header. Kane’s 9th league goal.
Mainz made up for it with a powerful left-footed shot by Anthony Cassi in the 43rd minute of the first half, but Munich widened the gap again with Goretzka’s goal in the 14th minute of the second half.
Mainz had 16 shots, 3 more than Munich, but had 3 effective shots, 2 fewer than Munich. Following Lee Jae-sung’s goal in the first half, he was not as lucky in the 43rd minute of the second half as Brayan Gruda’s left footed shot after overcoming a struggle with Kim Min-jae hit the goal post.
In the WhoScored.com rating, which specializes in soccer statistics, Kim Min-jae received 6.9 points, and Lee Jae-seong scored 6.1 points. The highest rating for both teams was 7.9 points given to Goretzka and Gruda. According to Footmob statistics, Kim Min-jae connected all 102 passes on this day, recording a 100% success rate.
Reporter Hong Ji-min
2023-10-22 01:57:29
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