Incheon United vs Seoul preview

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Competition: Korea Republic K-League 1
Competition: Sat 30.October
Match begins: 05:00 (UTC)
Venue: Sungui Arena Park (20891 seats)

A total of 33 rounds of fixtures have been played and Incheon United are 3 points ahead of Seoul. How will it end?

Insights:
  • Incheon United is in the worst form (0-1-5)

This looks to be an action-packed match with lots of spark and energy as both participants are well refreshed since they last ran out on the pitch. Game on!

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Incheon United form and stats

6-5-6 (win-draw-lost) are the K-League 1 numbers at home for Incheon United so far this season. The home stadium (Sungui Arena Park) is supposed to be a fortress, but for Incheon it's been a house of straw as the last four games here have all been lost. Can they turn things around?

Incheon United enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Pohang Steelers's place. The match ended 1-0. Bo-seob Kim (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 7.45/10. Kim hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

Ahead of that match, Incheon lost 0-1 at home to Gangwon.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Incheon United as they are travelling to their away game against Seongnam in the K-League 1. That match is four days after this one.

Incheon have scored 15 league goals here from 17 matches, not a lot. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Incheon United are not conceding a lot of goals here at Sungui Arena Park in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 14 from 17 matches.

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Seoul form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their K-League 1 travels is 5 wins, 5 draws and 6 defeats. It could be a hat trick of victories away for Seoul, as they have won on their previous two travels.

Two travels in a row for Seoul, whose manager I. Ahn could celebrate last time after the K-League 1 win against Gangwon. Sang-heui Kang, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 8.12. Kang won 6 of 7 duels.

A 1-1 draw was the result before that, hosting Daegu.

The schedule is very tough for Seoul now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A K-League 1 game at Gwangju is waiting in only four days.

Seoul have scored 19 goals on their travels this season, from 16 away games in the league. Seoul have conceded 18 goals in these away matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.

Head 2 Head

The records show that this isn''t the first time these two teams meet this campaign, as the fixture list show this recent game: Seoul - Incheon United 0-0. Incheon-Seoul H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Incheon United four wins, Seoul four wins, two draws. one of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Incheon UnitedS. Mugoša
S. Mugoša
9 goals
SeoulS. Na
S. Na
9 goals
SeoulY. Cho
Y. Cho
6 goals

Incheon United missing players

Seoul missing players

Incheon United Seoul
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
33 17 5 Played P 4 16 33
11 6 3 Won W 3 5 9
7 5 0 Drew D 1 5 10
15 6 2 Lost L 0 6 14
33 15 4 Scored S 6 19 37
42 14 3 Conceded C 2 18 40
88% 82% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 94% 91%
61% 47% 20% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 69% 64%
45% 29% 20% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 31% 42%
21% 6% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 19% 18%
12% 6% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 19% 12%
42% 35% 20% BTTS BTTS 50% 56% 52%
27% 35% 40% Clean Sheets C S 50% 25% 24%
42% 47% 40% Failed to Score F T 0% 25% 33%
 
2.7 2.8 2.2 Corners for (avg) C F 3.5 3.9 4.4
4.6 4.8 5.2 Corners against (avg) C A 4 4.4 3.8
1.6 1.6 1.6 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 1.9 1.5
3 2 1 Red cards R C 0 1 3
 
8.4 8.2 7.2 Shots (avg) S ( 8.5 9.3 10.2
3.3 2.9 2.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.8 4 4
31% 30% 36% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 30% 28%
Key stats in K-League 1 this season:
  • Incheon United have the fewest conceded goals (14) at home in K-League 1
  • Incheon United is in the worst form (0-1-5)

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Jeonbuk Motors 33 18 10 5 58 32 17 11 3 3 33 18 16 7 7 2 25 14 26 64
2 Ulsan 33 18 10 5 54 35 16 10 5 1 30 16 17 8 5 4 24 19 19 64
3 Daegu 33 13 10 10 37 37 16 7 6 3 19 15 17 6 4 7 18 22 0 49
4 Jeju United 33 10 15 8 43 39 16 5 6 5 21 24 17 5 9 3 22 15 4 45
5 Suwon Bluewings 33 12 9 12 41 40 17 5 5 7 21 25 16 7 4 5 20 15 1 45
6 Suwon 33 12 9 12 45 49 16 7 3 6 22 24 17 5 6 6 23 25 -4 45
7 Pohang Steelers 33 11 9 13 35 40 17 5 5 7 15 20 16 6 4 6 20 20 -5 42
8 Incheon United 33 11 7 15 33 42 17 6 5 6 15 14 16 5 2 9 18 28 -9 40
9 Seoul 33 9 10 14 37 40 17 4 5 8 18 22 16 5 5 6 19 18 -3 37
10 Gangwon 33 9 10 14 35 43 17 6 7 4 22 17 16 3 3 10 13 26 -8 37
11 Seongnam 33 9 10 14 30 40 16 6 4 6 16 18 17 3 6 8 14 22 -10 37
12 Gwangju 33 9 5 19 34 45 16 5 3 8 17 20 17 4 2 11 17 25 -11 32

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.