A game from the Champions League in Asia, the AFC competition. They met in the group stage at Kobe in Japan, Kobe won 2-0. The first leg at Kobe, the hosts had the lead 2-0 by HT and settled with that result. But Kobe, their last two group games this competition on the road were smashed 4-2 at Shanghai Shenhua, China based clubs not really being that strong, and Kobe also lost 3-1 at Pohang from South Korea.
Gwangju had amazing results at the start of the group stage. 7-3 home win with Yokohama F. Marinos who just smashed Shanghai Port in double leg in this stage of the competition, 3-1 win with Johor DT, really a top team, but also a 2-2 draw with Buriram here at home, but they were already sure to be making it through and came from 2-0 behind. In the league they won 2-1 here with Anyang and drew 2-2 with Jeonbuk on the road, so far from solid defense, but great at scoring goals, and I took initially over 3.5 goals, but I believe over 4.5 goals is a good value bet. Game starts in around half an hour.