Two days ago, the K League side needed a very late rally to down their Australian opponents, having gone down to a Daniel Stynes effort 20 minutes from time before Kim In-sung and Junior Negrao scored in the final minute of normal time and late in stoppage time respectively to secure the points.

Doha: Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors' Song Beom-keun has been voted by the fans as the 2020 AFC Champions League (East) Toyota Player of the Week after the goalkeeper's phenomenal performance against Sydney FC on Wednesday.

The recently turned 23-year-old custodian was in superlative form making eight saves as he kept a cleansheet to help the Korean champions secure a vital three points in the Group H clash.

The 2019 J1 League champions dominated throughout but the game was only decided in the 90th minute when substitute Jun Amano tapped in a rebound after Teruhito Nakagawa’s header was fumbled into his path by the Chinese Super League side’s keeper. Oscar had missed a penalty for Shanghai SIPG eight minutes earlier.

Na Sung-eun's solitary strike was enough to bag the three points as the Korea Republic side’s defence played a huge role in keeping the clean sheet that helped them cross the line at the end, consigning Sydney FC to early elimination from the group stage.

After picking up three points against Suwon Samsung Bluewings in their last Continental appearance back in February, the ambitious J1 League side have endured a difficult year domestically and went into the AFC Champions League's resumption on the back of five successive defeats.

But a change of scenery brought about an upturn in fortunes as the Kobe club improved as the game went on to open their account in Qatar with a win and leave two-time champions Guangzhou Evergrande to fight it out with Suwon for the second qualifying spot in the three-team group.

Iniesta was at his brilliant best at Khalifa International Stadium, teeing up Kyogo Furuhashi’’s opening goal late in the first half, before making the points safe, and sending Vissel to the Round of 16 with a sweetly struck goal of his own in the 84th minute.