Kim Min-jae, who shone despite the first loss in the league… Blockade of Lukaku and Martinez

Napoli, the leader of Italian professional football Serie A, suffered the first defeat in the league, but Kim Min-jae (27) still boasted of an ‘iron wall defense’.

On the 5th (Korean time), Kim Min-jae played full-time in an away game against Inter Milan in the 16th round of Serie A, tying Romelu Lukaku, the goal scorer of the opposing team, tightly.

Kim Min-jae, who started as a central defender in harmony with Amir Rahmani, often faced Lukaku, who was mainly active in the right front.

Napoli lost 0-1 with Lukaku and Edin Dzeko scoring a header in the 11th minute of the second half.

With the start of the game, Lukaku received an infiltrating pass and ran to Napoli’s rear, but lost the ball to Kim Min-jae, who followed in an instant, and had to reduce the skills of the league’s top defenders.

In the 4th minute of the first half, Kim Min-jae overcame a physical struggle with Lukaku who caught the ball in front of the goal and blocked the shot.

In the counterattack situation in the 40th minute of the first half, Lukaku took advantage of the gap between Kim Min-jae and kicked a right-footed shot from the right side of the penalty arc, but it went wide.

This was Lukaku’s last shot.

This is because Kim Min-jae’s ‘blockade of Lukaku’ continued until the second half.

As soon as Lukaku caught the ball from the right side of the penalty box in the 3rd minute of the second half, he immediately cleared it, and right after that, he won the contest with Lukaru, who tried to receive a pass from the rear, and took the right to attack. 토토사이트

In the 20th minute of the second half, Inter Milan called in Lukaku, who was not very active in Kim Min-jae’s defense.

Instead, Argentina’s Lautaro Martinez, who played an active part in the World Cup, was put in. It was the intention to see the match with the amount of activity while the Napoli defense team was tired.

However, it was the same that Martinez could not break through Kim Min-jae.

Just before the end of the game, Kim Min-jae blocked the front of Martinez, who counterattacked after receiving a forward pass from Nicolo Varela, and a one-on-one situation was created.

Kim Min-jae rushed at the moment Martinez was about to speed up after receiving the ball, overcame a physical struggle and kicked the ball away.

According to whoscored.com, a soccer statistics site, Kim Min-jae recorded 3 successful tackles and 3 kicks, the most in the team that day. He also made 2 interceptions.

Kim Min-jae, who recorded 101 ball touches, the most in Naples, tried 88 passes with a 90% success rate and was actively involved in the build-up from the rear.

Whoscored.com gave Kim Min-jae a rating of 6.8, the highest in the team.

According to Foot Mob, another statistics site, Kim Min-jae won the right to attack twice in three aerial competitions.

On the ground, not in the air, the duel was won 3 out of 5 times.

This site gave Kim Min-jae a rating of 7.1.