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Former Manchester United participant Jesse Lingard made his dwelling debut for FC Seoul after becoming a member of the membership final month.
Lingard signed for the South Koreans on a free switch after his disappointing season at Nottingham Forest noticed him launched final summer time.
As reported by The Day by day Mail, his arrival in Asia was met with hysteria from the Seoul trustworthy who packed out their dwelling stadium on the weekend to smash the Okay-League attendance document (51,670).
A particular ‘Lingard Zone’ was arrange exterior the stadium previous to the match, stuffed with personalised merchandise followers might get their palms on as they flocked to the bottom.
Shirt gross sales are hovering within the South Korean capital and the zone was an enormous attraction on the day.
Seoul hosted Incheon of their second sport of season hoping to get their first win after dropping the opening fixture away at Gwangju.
Sadly for Lingard and his new aspect they had been unable to discover a manner by the cussed away defence who held out for a 0-0 draw.
The previous United man began on the bench however was launched simply after the half hour mark.
Incheon created the marginally higher probabilities all through the sport however Lingard did have the possibility to seal a dream debut because the clock ticked down.
Nevertheless, his first time shot from across the penalty spot flew excessive and large and Seoul had been pressured to accept a degree.
Lingard will hope to seek out his type in Korea and get again to having fun with his soccer, one thing that he hasn’t finished since his mortgage spell at West Ham in 2022.
His shock transfer to Korea will give him the chance to get some minutes on the pitch and he actually seems as if he’ll get the backing from the house followers.
Lingard was grateful for the help however was left considerably annoyed at not having the ability to ship them dwelling as winners after his late miss.
“In entrance of a giant crowd, first dwelling sport – wonderful help all through. Most likely ought to have gained ultimately. I had a few half-chances,” he stated.
Lingard’s subsequent task within the Okay-League is one other dwelling fixture subsequent Saturday towards Jeju.
