FC Seoul fight back to oust Beijing Guoan
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Yun Il-lok scored once and provided an assist as K-League champions FC Seoul secured a third AFC Champions League quarter-final appearance in five years after recording a 3-1 comeback win over China's Beijing Guoan on Tuesday.
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Piao Cheng of Beijing Guoan runs for the ball in the second leg of AFC Champions League last 16 clash between Beijing Guoan and FC Seoul at Seoul World Cup Stadium on Tuesday. |
Having failed to make use of a numerical advantage in the final 30 minutes of last week's first leg, Beijing got off to a wonderful start when a defensive mix-up released Beijing's Freddie Kanoute in the box. The former West Ham, Spurs and Sevilla striker coolly finished to put the visitors 1-0 up after eight minutes.
But after FC Seoul recovered from a slow start, the home side were denied an equaliser eight minutes before half-time as visiting goalkeeper Yang produced a superb reaction save to push Ha Dae-sung's point blank header from Damjanovic's cross over the crossbar.
After the break, Seoul's Serbian forward Dejan Damjanovic and Mauricio Molina both went close as Seoul pressed - and they got their break with a penalty on the hour-mark, after the Colombian was brought down in the box by Zhang Xinxin.
Damjanovic's spot-kick cannoned off the left post. But Seoul equalised just a minute later when Beijing 'keeper Yang Zhi fumbled a Yun Il-Lok cross into the path of Brazilian defender Adilson, who bundled it into an empty net.
And seven minutes later the home side completed the comeback as Yun capitalised on a moment's hesitation inside the Beijing penalty area and the midfielder took full advantage to lash an unstoppable effort past Yang.
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Yun Il-Lok completes the comeback for FC Seoul. |
Beijing's hopes were dealt a further blow with 11 minutes remaining as Kanoute picked up a second yellow card in quick succession.
Seoul also went down to 10 men when Adilson was sent off for a challenge on Lang Zheng, before Beijing's penalty-conceder Zhang saw red for a second bookable offence in the dying seconds.
And with huge gaps appearing in Beijing's defence, and their goalkeeper out of position, midfielder Koh Myong-Jin had time to steady himself and pick his spot for Seoul's third and final goal in the fourth minute of added time.
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