Another action-packed match as Pohang Steelers host Jeju United

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Competition: Korea Republic K-League 1
Competition: Sat 16.July
Match begins: 11:00 (UTC)
Venue: Steelyard Stadium (25000 seats)

A total of 21 sets of fixtures are finished and both Pohang Steelers and Jeju United are at the right end of the league table. Let's start!

Insights:
  • Pohang Steelers have the most clean sheets (8) in K-League 1
  • Jeju United have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Pohang Steelers can neither be promoted or relegated from K-League 1. For Jeju United most of the excitement is over as they will neither be promoted or relegated this season.

This has all the signs of an absorbing game with lots of action and bustle as both teams are well rested since they last played a game. Get ready!

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Pohang Steelers form and stats

21 points is a decent return from 10 K-League 1 games here at Steelyard Stadium for Pohang Steelers. The data says 6 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss. The opportunity of a proper winning streak is there for the hosts, with two straight wins here at Steelyard Stadium.

The Steelers supporters enjoyed the previous fixture, watching their team host Suwon Bluewings and win 1-0. Midfield player Sin got a match rating of 8.43 in that game, the max score being 10. Sin scored one goal, hit two key passes and had 98 successful passes (of 105 total).

A strong away win before that one, visiting Seongnam and winning 4-1.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Pohang Steelers handle that role? We have found 18 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 9 wins, 6 draws and 3 defeats.

Low-scoring affair? In this club's last 19 league games, 15 have seen less than three goals (under 2.5).

The Pohang Steelers fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 14 in 10 matches. Pohang Steelers have only conceded 5 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Jeju United form and stats

5-1-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Jeju United in their K-League 1 matches away. The pressure to perform on the road is increasing on Nam, the Jeju manager, as the last three away games were defeats.

Jeju United won their last game, 3-2 versus Seongnam played at home. That win felt nice as this team had gone four league matches without victory. Fernandes, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 8.51. Fernandes scored two goals and hit three key passes.

Preceding that game, the 0-4 loss visiting Sangju Sangmu's place.

Jeju United are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 0 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats. From a total of 4 matches.

Jeju United have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 10 league away games 14 goals have been scored. As for defending, Jeju rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 15 goals from these away matches. It's worth mentioning that 9 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

The participants have met each other before in this season, with the final score Jeju United - Pohang Steelers 0-3 registered in the official records. Statistics for the preceeding ten meetings involving these two participants are: two wins for Pohang Steelers, five draws and three wins for Jeju United. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games.

Top Goalscorers

Jeju UnitedM. Joo
M. Joo
12 goals
Pohang SteelersY. Heo
Y. Heo
7 goals
Pohang SteelersS. Lim
S. Lim
6 goals

Pohang Steelers missing players

Jeju United missing players

Pohang Steelers Jeju United
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
21 10 2 Played P 2 10 21
10 6 1 Won W 1 5 9
6 3 0 Drew D 0 1 6
5 1 1 Lost L 1 4 6
30 14 2 Scored S 2 14 27
18 5 1 Conceded C 1 15 26
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 81%
71% 70% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 70% 67%
29% 10% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 60% 57%
19% 10% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 40% 33%
10% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 10% 10%
48% 40% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 50% 48%
38% 50% 50% Clean Sheets C S 50% 20% 33%
14% 10% 50% Failed to Score F T 50% 30% 38%
 
4.6 5.3 5 Corners for (avg) C F 2.5 4.9 5.2
4.5 4.9 4.5 Corners against (avg) C A 6 3.9 3.2
2.2 2.2 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.4 1.6
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
10.9 13.5 14.5 Shots (avg) S ( 6.5 12.4 11.7
4.8 5.7 3.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 5.2 4.5
30% 25% 29% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 27% 29%
 
8.5 7.3 7 Shots against (avg) S A 13 9.8 9.3
3 2.3 1 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.5 4.3 4.3
Key stats in K-League 1 this season:
  • Jeju United have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Jeju United haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Pohang Steelers have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Pohang Steelers have the fewest conceded goals (5) at home in K-League 1
  • Pohang Steelers have the most clean sheets (8) in K-League 1
  • Pohang Steelers have the the best goal difference (+9) at home in K-League 1
  • Pohang Steelers haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  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 21 13 5 3 31 18 10 6 3 1 15 9 11 7 2 2 16 9 13 44
2 Jeonbuk Motors 21 11 6 4 26 17 10 2 5 3 9 11 11 9 1 1 17 6 9 39
3 Pohang Steelers 21 10 6 5 30 18 10 6 3 1 14 5 11 4 3 4 16 13 12 36
4 Jeju United 21 9 6 6 27 26 11 4 5 2 13 11 10 5 1 4 14 15 1 33
5 Incheon United 21 7 9 5 25 22 11 4 4 3 13 10 10 3 5 2 12 12 3 30
6 Suwon 21 8 4 9 31 32 10 5 1 4 23 21 11 3 3 5 8 11 -1 28
7 Daegu 21 5 11 5 27 25 11 5 4 2 16 9 10 0 7 3 11 16 2 26
8 Gangwon 21 6 6 9 26 32 11 5 2 4 16 14 10 1 4 5 10 18 -6 24
9 Seoul 21 5 8 8 25 26 10 3 3 4 13 12 11 2 5 4 12 14 -1 23
10 Sangju Sangmu 21 5 7 9 27 27 10 4 3 3 14 10 11 1 4 6 13 17 0 22
11 Suwon Bluewings 21 4 8 9 14 24 11 4 4 3 9 8 10 0 4 6 5 16 -10 20
12 Seongnam 21 2 6 13 16 38 11 0 4 7 7 23 10 2 2 6 9 15 -22 12

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.