It is quickly reviving in Union Berlin, where Jung Woo-young can faithfully do what he is doing well.
On the 5th (Korea time), Union Berlin, who had the sixth round of the 2024-2025 German Bundesliga, won 2-1 over Borussia Dortmund at Ander Alten Försterai in Berlin, Germany. Union won three, two draws and one loss, and Dortmund won three wins, one draw and two losses, making Union rise to a higher position.
Union is a team that has risen from the middle of the second division to the top of the first division due to the upward curve that steadily improves its performance for five consecutive seasons. The team, which was ranked eighth in the 2. Bundesliga (division 2) in the 2017-2018 season, was promoted to third in the second division, won the UEFA Europa Conference League with 11th place in the first division and 7th place in the first division, won the UEFA Europa League with 5th place in the first division, and won the UEFA Champions League with 4th place in the first division. Then, the combination of the UCL in the 2023-2024 season worked as a poison, falling to 15th place and barely remaining.
Since starting over without a European competition, Woonion has reorganized its team with more substantial players this season and appointed its coach Bosbenson. In the process, it recruited Jung Woo-young.
In the match against Dortmund, Union’s team color this season was well revealed. Union made it difficult for Dortmund to wake up due to strong pressure. Dortmund dug into the gap where they were exhausted from playing UCL games during the week and pushed for a physical battle. Union, who had a hard time playing UCL together last season, knew how hard the weekend game was immediately afterwards.
Dortmund’s backside, which was under strong pressure from Union, failed to properly play. Center back Niko Schloterbeck and midfielder Pascal Gross, the main players of the German national team, are both excellent players in build-up. However, the percentage of successful passes in the first half was 79 percent for Schloterbeck and 80 percent for Gros, which was much lower than usual. Even their left and right fullbacks were less than 70 percent. As a result, Union’s pressure was strong. As a result, he scored two goals to lead the team quickly.
Jung Woo-young, who was used as an important part of compression soccer, faithfully formed a defensive organization with his teammates and realized Union’s concept of the game by performing gegen pressing as soon as the ball was taken away.
He played this role even when he was playing well with Freiburg, his team. Jung had skills until his second year in Bayern Munich, but he has developed a character who contributes to his team by using a lot of activities in line with his team’s tactics that place importance on strong pressure. He played 32 matches as a starter in the 2021-2022 season and used up his physical stamina to the extent that he missed the second half of most of the matches. He also scored five goals and two assists in the league in order to increase his offensive points.
Freiburg, however, began to employ players with more dribbling and personal attacking skills during the 2022-2023 season, with Jung’s playing time drastically reduced in the midst of the change. And the same was true at Stuttgart last season. 안전놀이터
Jung Woo-young does not need to break through dribbling in Union this season. The game against Dortmund did not have any dribbling success as well as Jung Woo-young. The number of attempts was less than half that of Dortmund, but all of them failed.
It was not just that day. Union dribbled 16th out of 18 teams in the league, ranking the lowest. The 4.8 times per game is almost one third of that of Bayern Munich, which dribbles the most.
In other words, Woonion values the team concept itself to create space through passes and pressure, and to drive the ball into that space, rather than breaking through the dribble of a specific player. Just because Jung Woo-young is a winger, there is no need to be pressure to beat the opponent’s fullback one-on-one.
The most natural step is to revive the individual skills of his youth here step by step, showing Jung Woo-young’s best play in the profession. To do so, Union is the perfect team.
Once he has established himself as a key player in the Woonion, who cannot compete in European competitions, he can play with a guaranteed break time in the pattern of one game every week. It is suitable to show Jung Woo-young’s great performance in every game.
Jung Woo-young, who has suffered a lot over the past two years, has been on the rise again in Berlin, although he has been highly anticipated as a second-tier European player who has advanced to prestigious Bayern.
