K-League 1 match prediction: Little separates Seoul and Ulsan in quality

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Competition: Korea Republic K-League 1
Competition: Sun 27.Aug
Match begins: 10:00 (UTC)
Venue: Seoul World Cup Stadium (66080 seats)

A total of 27 sets of matches are finished and both Seoul and Ulsan are at the right end of the league table. Let's go!

Insights:
  • Seoul have the most scored goals in the second half (31) in K-League 1
  • Ulsan have the most scored goals (50) in K-League 1

Both teams have had enough rest since their previous competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!

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Seoul form and stats

Overall K-League 1 stats playing at home this season for Seoul are 6-6-2 (wins-draws-losses). Seoul have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.

The home club members saw a 2-2 draw versus Daegu last time out and are looking for a victory here.

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Daejeon Citizen (3-4).

A decent goal production from Seoul in their home games so far, with 27 goals from 14 league matches. On the other hand, Seoul have conceded 15 goals.

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Ulsan form and stats

Ulsan have an excellent away record in the K-League 1 so far with 9-1-4 from 14 games.

Impressive finishing from Eom secured the home win 1-0 against Jeonbuk Motors in their previous game. Eom came off the bench to score the winning goal in the match against Jeonbuk Motors last time out, making the manager Hong feel like a tactical genius.

Prior to that match, the Ulsan manager Hong faced defeat when travelling to Gangwon and losing 0-2.

Ulsan are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 20 away goals from 14 games (in the league). It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

Ulsan have not lost in the last 17 fixtures (13-4-0) versus Seoul.

Ulsan - Seoul 3-2 was the product when these contenders previously did battle, some time ago this season. Ahn (Seoul) was sent off by the referee when these teams last met. One of the players to grab the headlines has been Vako with 7 goals scored against Seoul in these 10 meetings.

Top Goalscorers

UlsanV. Qazaishvili
V. Qazaishvili
11 goals

Seoul missing players

Ulsan missing players

Seoul Ulsan
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
27 14 3 Played P 2 14 27
10 6 0 Won W 1 9 19
9 6 3 Drew D 0 1 3
8 2 0 Lost L 1 4 5
48 27 4 Scored S 1 20 50
35 15 4 Conceded C 2 14 29
96% 93% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 93% 96%
81% 79% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 64% 74%
56% 57% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 50% 67%
33% 36% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 29% 33%
19% 7% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 7% 15%
70% 71% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 43% 59%
22% 21% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 43% 33%
11% 14% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 21% 11%
 
5 5.4 4.7 Corners for (avg) C F 3 5.6 5.6
4.7 5.2 5 Corners against (avg) C A 3 2.7 3.6
1.6 1.4 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 2.3 2
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
13 13.6 12.3 Shots (avg) S ( 7 12.1 13
4.7 5.5 4.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.5 5 5.7
38% 35% 29% Goal Efficiency G E 14% 29% 32%
 
10.7 10.1 9.7 Shots against (avg) S A 15 11.8 12.8
3.6 3.5 3.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3 3.5 4.1
Key stats in K-League 1 this season:
  • Seoul have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Seoul have the most scored goals in the second half (31) in K-League 1
  • Ulsan have the fewest dropped points from leading position (2) in K-League 1
  • Ulsan have the fewest matches under the total-line (9) in K-League 1
  • Ulsan have the most clean sheets (6) away in K-League 1
  • Ulsan have the most matches over the total-line (18) in K-League 1
  • Ulsan have the most points (28) away in K-League 1
  • Ulsan have the most scored goals (50) in K-League 1
  • Ulsan have the most scored goals in the first half (21) in K-League 1
  • Ulsan have the the best goal difference (+21) in K-League 1
  • Ulsan have the the best goal difference (+6) away in K-League 1
  • Ulsan have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Ulsan 27 19 3 5 50 29 13 10 2 1 30 15 14 9 1 4 20 14 21 60
2 Pohang Steelers 27 13 10 4 43 33 15 10 3 2 28 18 12 3 7 2 15 15 10 49
3 Jeonbuk Motors 27 12 5 10 33 24 14 9 2 3 21 9 13 3 3 7 12 15 9 41
4 Seoul 27 10 9 8 48 35 14 6 6 2 27 15 13 4 3 6 21 20 13 39
5 Gwangju 27 10 9 8 35 28 13 6 3 4 19 10 14 4 6 4 16 18 7 39
6 Incheon United 27 9 10 8 31 32 14 4 7 3 16 13 13 5 3 5 15 19 -1 37
7 Daejeon Citizen 27 9 9 9 42 47 13 6 4 3 20 19 14 3 5 6 22 28 -5 36
8 Daegu 27 8 11 8 30 33 12 4 6 2 15 13 15 4 5 6 15 20 -3 35
9 Jeju United 27 9 7 11 36 36 13 4 5 4 16 15 14 5 2 7 20 21 0 34
10 Suwon 27 7 5 15 30 55 13 4 3 6 16 24 14 3 2 9 14 31 -25 26
11 Suwon Bluewings 27 5 7 15 27 40 14 2 3 9 12 22 13 3 4 6 15 18 -13 22
12 Gangwon 27 3 11 13 19 32 14 2 4 8 12 19 13 1 7 5 7 13 -13 20

Read more about K-League 1

The K League 1 is the top level of the South Korean football league pyramid. It was founded in 1983 as the Korean Super League, later renamed K League Classic and in 2018 renamed K League 1. It currently has twelve teams playing 33 fixtures each, then enter championship and relegation rounds.