Today's Topic: Winning Streaks

(from memegenerator.net)

Seoul does not play this weekend, so there is nothing to preview.  I have a bit of time before I go to work this morning, so I have been trying to get into playing Assasin's Creed Rogue, but I just am not feeling it.  For some reason, it feels like a rehash of Assasin's Creed 3 and 4.

Instead, I decided to do something much more riveting- look at Seoul's K-League winning streaks under Choi Yong-soo since 2012.  If you have followed the team for any length of time, then you will know the results.  They had a lot of winning streaks in 2012, a big one in 2013, a couple of small ones in 2014, and only one this year.  

I chose a winning streak as three or more games that Seoul won in a row.  This is only for the K-League.  I did not count cup games or ACL games.  Below are the results followed by a comment.

Winning Streaks (3 or more games)
Date	Opponent	Score
03/10/2012	Jeonnam	2 - 0
03/18/2012	Daejeon	2 - 0
03/25/2012	Jeonbuk	2 - 1
04/29/2012	Gangwon	2 - 1
05/05/2012	Pohang	2 - 1
05/12/2012	Gyeongnam	1 - 0
05/19/2012	Gwangju	2 - 1
05/28/2012	Incheon	3 - 1
06/14/2012	Seongnam	1 - 0
08/04/2012	Gangwon	3 - 2
08/08/2012	Gyeongnam	2 - 1
08/11/2012	Seongnam	3 - 2
08/22/2012	Jeonnam	3 - 0
08/26/2012	Daegu	2 - 0
09/16/2012	Busan	2 - 0
09/22/2012	Pohang	3 - 2
09/26/2012	Ulsan	2 - 1
11/15/2012	Ulsan	3 - 1
11/18/2012	Gyeongnam	3 - 0
11/21/2012	Jeju	1 - 0
11/25/2012	Jeonbuk	1 - 0

Their final record that year was 29 wins, 9 draws, and six losses.  The more I look at it, the more I realize, 2012 really was a glorious season.  It is too bad I missed about half of it traveling through Southeast Asia.  Seoul had five winning streaks that year and during those streaks, they averaged 2.14 goals a game.

Winning Streaks (3 or more games)
07/07/2013	Seongnam	3 - 0
07/13/2013	Jeonnam	2 - 1
07/16/2013	Gangwon	1 - 0
07/31/2013	Jeju	1 - 0
08/03/2013	Suwon	2 - 1
08/10/2013	Incheon	3 - 2
08/15/2013	Daejeon	3 - 2

If 2010 was my favorite season following Seoul, this was my favorite team.  They had a tough year, but they battled and there was a lot of excitement.  They only had one winning streak though, again averaging 2.14 goals per game that streak.  Their final record that year was 17 wins, 11 draws, and 10 losses, which was good enough for fourth in the league that year.  

Winning Streaks (3 or more games)
08/10/2014	Busan	2 - 0
08/16/2014	Incheon	5 - 1
08/23/2014	Jeonbuk	2 - 1
09/07/2014	Pohang	1 - 0
09/10/2014	Seongnam	2 - 1
09/13/2014	Incheon	3 - 1

Things seem to become progressively worse as Choi's tenure carries on.  In 2013, there was only one winning streak, but that was seven games.  In 2014, he had two winning streaks, but they were only three games each and I think this is much worse.  At least they averaged 2.5 goals during the streak.  Seoul finished third that year with a record of 15 wins, 13 draws, and 10 losses.

Winning Streaks (3 or more games)
06/03/2015	Incheon	1 - 0
06/06/2015	Jeonbuk	2 - 1
06/10/2015	Daejeon	2 - 1

This year, they have only one winning streak, which at the time I was elated about.  Now, I don't know why.  They didn't really go on to do much after that and their form at times has been dull.  As I have said before, I am finding it hard to get excited about Seoul's prospects because every time I do, they just disappoint.  

Seoul really do need to put a string of wins together.  Their next opponents are Busan and Daejeon, who are both at the foot of the table.  It really is now-or-never.  Anything other than "W's" is unacceptable at this point.