‘Scoring King’ striker Immobile blockade… 2nd highest rating on the team 7.6
Min-jae Kim (26), the ‘monster defender’ of Korean football, scored the second goal in the league and played an active part in karate, leading Italian professional soccer Serie A Napoli to the top of the league.
Min-jae Kim started the match once morest Lazio in the 5th round of 2022-2023 Serie A held at Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy on the 4th (Korean time), and scored a header that made it 1-1 in the 38th minute of the first half.
Olympiacos won 2-1 with Kim Min-jae’s equalizer and Hvica Kvarachelia’s comeback goal in the 16th minute of the second half.
Kim Min-jae, who left Turkiye (Turkey) Fenerbahçe and wore a Napoli uniform before this season, scored his debut goal in the second round of the league, and then scored his second goal in three matches, establishing himself as a ‘goal-scoring defender’.
Minjae Kim shook the net by finishing a high RBI header from a corner kick from Fjord Zielinski in the 38th minute.
Both of these season’s regular league goals were headers from Zielinski’s corner kicks.
Min-jae Kim, who started as a center back in the four-back defense line, played full-time and showed good performance in defense, his main job.
Kim Min-jae, who won three aerial ball competitions, showed stable defense, recording one interception and three kicks.
In particular, the Napoli defense, led by Kim Min-jae, tied Lazio’s striker last season’s top scorer Chiro Immobile tightly.
Immobile, who played full-time, only attempted one shot.
Even that didn’t produce effective shots.
Kim Min-jae, who attempted the most passes in the team, 108, also touched the ball the most with 118.
The pass success rate was 85.2%.
Soccer statistics site WhoScore.com gave Kim Min-jae the second highest rating in the team at 7.6.
Kvarachelia, who scored a comeback goal, had the highest rating with 8.0.
Quvarachelia, who had been knocking on the opponent’s goal throughout the match, scored a come-back goal in the 16th minute of the second half, breaking the 1-1 balance by connecting a cutback from André Zambo Anguisa with a powerful right-footed shot from the penalty area.
Lazio, who took the lead with Mattia Chakani’s goal in the 4th minute of the first half, was knocked down as Kim Min-jae and Kvarachelia scored in succession.
With this victory, Napoli (11 points) recorded 3 wins and 2 draws in 5 matches, moving up to the top spot in the regular league.
Lazio, who had 2 wins and 2 draws alongside Napoli before this match, received their first loss of the season and placed 7th in the league.
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