"Is there no Pohang miracle..." ACLE announced its advance to China-Shanghai in the round of 16... Shandong suddenly gave up the tournament → Pohang point decreased to '9→6'
"Is there no Pohang miracle..." ACLE announced its advance to China-Shanghai in the round of 16... Shandong suddenly gave up the tournament → Pohang point decreased to '9→6'
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Shanghai Port (China), not the Pohang Steelers of professional football, was marked as a team that advanced to the round of 16.
The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) announced on its SNS on the 20th (Korea time) the team that advanced to the round of 16 at the AFC Champions League Elite (ACLE). Shanghai's emblem, not Pohang, was included in the team that advanced to the round of 16.
Looking at the final ranking of Group A of the ACLE League Stage announced on the AFC website, Shanghai ranked eighth with two wins, two draws and four losses (8 points), and Pohang was ninth with two wins and five losses (6 points).
Shanghai has played eight matches, while Pohang has played seven. Pohang's points have also decreased from nine to six.
This seems to have deleted Pohang's record of winning the match against Shandong, as China's Shandong Taishan suddenly gave up the ACLE competition.
Earlier on Wednesday, AFC said, "In accordance with Article 5, Paragraph 2 of the ACLE regulation, Shandong has no intention of playing against Ulsan HD. As a result, Shandong has decided to withdraw from ACLE." In the end, the team gave up the competition. We need to judge whether it is true or not, but Shandong has reportedly made the decision due to the health of its players.
When Shandong gave up the competition, Pohang's performance was 3 wins and 5 losses (nine points) and ranked 9th in the league stage. Shandong was ranked 8th with 3 wins, 1 draw, and 3 losses (nine points). Tickets for the ACLE round of 16 are given up to 8th place, but there was a variable as Shandong was excluded. If the AFC decides to raise the ranking of the lower teams than Shandong by one level, Pohang can also join the round of 16 dramatically.
Shanghai, which had just eight points, also lost the match against Yokohama F. Marinos on the 19th and failed to add points.
Immediately after Shandong's abandonment of the tournament, a Pohang official said in a phone call with Star News, "We have not received any official contact from the AFC yet."
However, AFC seems to delete only Shandong's records in Games 1 through 7. According to the ACLE rule, if a team withdraws, the entire record will be calculated anew, excluding all official matches played with the club concerned.
This regulation is bound to cause issues of equity. As the record of one game disappeared for the team that played against Shandong, the team played a total of seven games, and the rest of the team played eight more games, one more game.
In fact, Pohang, Vissel Kobe and Kawasaki Frontale will suffer losses. Three points have disappeared.
On the other hand, the team that benefited was Shanghai. Pohang's points decreased from 9 to 6, and Shanghai, which did not play Shandong, maintained the eight points. As a result, Shanghai overtook Pohang to rank eighth in the league stage. 온라인카지노