National League prediction and preview: Paju Citizen small favoured to subdue Busan Transportation

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Competition: Korea Republic National League
Competition: Sun 09.Jul
Match begins: 10:00 (UTC)
Venue: Paju Public Stadium (22000 seats)

Carrying a 12 point advantage in the league standings, Paju Citizen followers crave to see their side get max points from this fixture versus Busan Transportation.

Insights:
  • Paju Citizen have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Paju Citizen have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Busan Transportation have scored away.

This should be an absorbing game with lots of fun and energy as both squads are well recovered since they last saw competitive action. Bring it on!

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Paju Citizen form and stats

When playing at home in the National League, Paju Citizen have managed 4 wins, 0 draws and suffered 3 defeats from 7 games.

The club members are hoping that Paju Citizen will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 2-4 away loss in the game against Siheung Citizen (placed 5th). As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today?

Ahead of that match, Paju Citizen lost 1-2 at home to Gimhae City.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Paju Citizen handle that role? We have found 8 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 5 wins, 0 draws and 3 defeats.

It should be taken into account that a glance at the 16 most recent league games reveals that 12 of them qualified as a both teams not to score result (only one or none of the teams scored).

Citizen have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Paju Public Stadium with 12 goals in 7 league matches. From these home matches, Paju Citizen have conceded only 6 goals.

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Busan Transportation form and stats

There's been little loot from Busan Transportation's travels as they have only collected 4 points from 6 away games in the National League. Busan Transportation only have 1 win to counter their 4 defeats and 1 draw. Transportation seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?

Busan Transportation's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Daejeon Korail that finished 1-1.

A 0-1 defeat away at Chuncheon before that.

We have checked recent matches where Busan Transportation have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 6 games were 0 victories, 3 draws and 3 defeats.

The attacking power of Transportation when travelling is not overwhelming with 5 goals scored from 6 league matches away. Busan Transportation have conceded 8 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Citizen have put together a streak of 5 consecutive matches without defeat (3-2-0) when facing Busan Transportation.

The previous H2H encounter ended Busan Transportation - Paju Citizen 0-1, earlier this season.

Top Goalscorers

CitizenJ. Lee
J. Lee
4 goals
Busan TransportationJ. Woo
J. Woo
4 goals
Paju CitizenJ. Seong
J. Seong
3 goals

Paju Citizen missing players

Busan Transportation missing players

Paju Citizen Busan Transportation
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
16 7 2 Played P 2 6 16
7 4 2 Won W 0 1 2
3 0 0 Drew D 0 1 6
6 3 0 Lost L 2 4 8
19 12 8 Scored S 0 5 13
14 6 2 Conceded C 2 8 20
81% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
38% 57% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 67% 62%
31% 43% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 50% 31%
25% 29% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 12%
19% 14% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
25% 29% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 67% 56%
56% 43% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 6%
38% 29% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 33% 38%
 
3.9 3.4 3 Corners for (avg) C F 5.5 5 4.6
3.7 3.7 1.5 Corners against (avg) C A 5 4.2 3.6
1.2 1.1 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.2 1.1
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
9.2 12.7 13.5 Shots (avg) S ( 9.5 11 10.2
3.5 4.3 7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 4.3 3.7
34% 40% 57% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 19% 22%
 
7.4 7.4 5.5 Shots against (avg) S A 6 9.7 8.8
2.9 2.4 2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2.5 3.5 3.2
Key stats in National League this season:
  • Busan Transportation have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Busan Transportation have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Busan Transportation haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Paju Citizen have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Paju Citizen have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Busan Transportation have scored away.
  • Paju Citizen haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Hwaseong 16 11 5 0 25 7 8 5 3 0 12 3 8 6 2 0 13 4 18 38
2 Mokpo City 15 8 4 3 22 12 6 3 2 1 9 5 9 5 2 2 13 7 10 28
3 Ulsan Citize 16 8 4 4 20 16 7 5 0 2 12 6 9 3 4 2 8 10 4 28
4 Gimhae City 15 7 5 3 20 15 7 4 2 1 9 6 8 3 3 2 11 9 5 26
5 Siheung Citizen 16 7 5 4 22 19 9 6 0 3 17 14 7 1 5 1 5 5 3 26
6 Chuncheon 16 6 7 3 14 11 8 3 4 1 7 5 8 3 3 2 7 6 3 25
7 Paju Citizen 16 7 3 6 19 14 7 4 0 3 12 6 9 3 3 3 7 8 5 24
8 Pocheon 16 5 8 3 18 18 8 2 4 2 5 7 8 3 4 1 13 11 0 23
9 Daejeon Korail 16 5 4 7 17 18 9 4 3 2 10 7 7 1 1 5 7 11 -1 19
10 Changwon City 16 4 4 8 10 16 7 2 2 3 5 5 9 2 2 5 5 11 -6 16
11 Yangju Citizen 16 4 4 8 20 28 8 2 4 2 12 13 8 2 0 6 8 15 -8 16
12 Gangneung City 16 3 6 7 15 20 8 0 4 4 6 10 8 3 2 3 9 10 -5 15
13 Yangpyeong 16 3 4 9 18 26 9 2 2 5 11 14 7 1 2 4 7 12 -8 13
14 Busan Transportation 16 2 6 8 13 20 10 1 5 4 8 12 6 1 1 4 5 8 -7 12
15 Gyeongju HNP 16 2 5 9 10 23 8 1 2 5 4 11 8 1 3 4 6 12 -13 11
16 Goyang KH 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Read more about National League

The Korea National League, formerly known as the K2 League, is the third highest tier of football in South Korea. It has eight teams playing a season from March to November- Each team plays 28 fixtures and the top three in the league table enter the subsequent play-offs. Currently no teams are promoted.