Jeonbuk brushed aside Chiang Rai United 3-1 to book their spot in the last-16 of the Asian Champions League after securing top spot in Group H with one match to spare on Wednesday.
The Korean giants became the second team to make the cut from the eastern half of the continent after Japan’s Nagoya Osaka achieved the feat on Sunday from Group G.
Jeonbuk, who won the tournament in 2006 and 2016, thoroughly dominated their Thai rivals at the Lokomotiv Stadium in Tashkent to take their tally to an unassailable 13 points from five matches.
Their main rivals for the top spot in the group, Gamba Osaka of Japan, thrashed Singapore’s Tampines Rovers 8-1 on Wednesday but with nine points can only hope to progress to the next phase as…
