Betting preview: Pohang Steelers vs Jeju United should be interesting

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Competition: Korea Republic K-League 1
Competition: Sat 24.April
Match begins: 05:00 (UTC)
Venue: Steelyard Stadium (25000 seats)

Both teams are enjoying a good season so far and games like this could be decisive. Here's the preview for Pohang Steelers - Jeju United!

Insights:
  • Pohang Steelers have the most conceded goals in the first half (9) in K-League 1
  • Jeju United have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Pohang Steelers form and stats

When playing at home in the K-League 1, Pohang Steelers, who have the most conceded goals (8) at home in K-League 1, have managed 2 wins, 2 draws and suffered 2 defeats from 6 games.

Steelers are confident in defense, having played 235 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.

A nice win for Steelers last time playing, versus Suwon. That was also a home game and the match ended 1-0 with Min-kyu Song scoring for the victors. A strong away win before that one, visiting Gwangju and winning 1-0.

This is expected to be a close game, with Pohang Steelers perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Pohang Steelers as a small favourite), we find six games. Pohang Steelers has won three of these, drawn one and lost two.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Pohang Steelers here at Steelyard Stadium in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (5 from 6 games). Steelers's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 8 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Jeju United form and stats

The visitors are W1-D3-L1 on the road this term. That's in the K-League 1.

The supporters enjoyed Jeju United's previous game versus Seoul (placed 9th), a K-League 1 2-1 win played at home. Preceding that game was the away victory against Incheon United with the score of 3-0.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found eleven similar matches played by Jeju United in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Jeju United, five draws and four defeats.

Jeju are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 5 away goals from 5 games (in the league). They concede less than a goal on average per away game (3 so far).

Head 2 Head

The two sides played each other earlier this season: Jeju United - Steelers 1-0. Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: one win for Pohang Steelers, four draws and five wins for Jeju United. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games.

Top Goalscorers

Pohang SteelersM. Song
M. Song
5 goals
Jeju UnitedM. Joo
M. Joo
5 goals
Pohang SteelersS. Lim
S. Lim
2 goals

Pohang Steelers missing players

Jeju United missing players

Pohang Steelers Jeju United
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
11 6 2 Played P 1 5 11
5 2 0 Won W 0 1 4
2 2 1 Drew D 1 3 6
4 2 1 Lost L 0 1 1
12 5 2 Scored S 0 5 13
13 8 4 Conceded C 0 3 8
91% 83% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 60% 82%
64% 67% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 60% 73%
55% 50% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 40% 36%
18% 17% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
55% 50% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 40% 64%
27% 33% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 60% 36%
27% 33% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 40% 18%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.7 1.7 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.4 1.2
2 1 1 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
9.6 9.3 11.5 Shots (avg) S ( 11 11 11.5
3.5 3.2 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 4.8 4.8
32% 26% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 21% 25%
Key stats in K-League 1 this season:
  • Jeju United have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Pohang Steelers have the most conceded goals (8) at home in K-League 1
  • Pohang Steelers have the most conceded goals in the first half (9) in K-League 1
  • Pohang Steelers have the the worst goal difference (-3) at home in K-League 1

  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 11 8 3 0 23 7 6 5 1 0 14 4 5 3 2 0 9 3 16 27
2 Ulsan 11 6 3 2 16 9 5 3 2 0 11 3 6 3 1 2 5 6 7 21
3 Jeju United 11 4 6 1 13 8 6 3 3 0 8 5 5 1 3 1 5 3 5 18
4 Pohang Steelers 11 5 2 4 12 13 6 2 2 2 5 8 5 3 0 2 7 5 -1 17
5 Suwon Bluewings 11 4 3 4 12 9 6 3 1 2 8 6 5 1 2 2 4 3 3 15
6 Seongnam 11 4 3 4 8 8 6 3 1 2 6 5 5 1 2 2 2 3 0 15
7 Gwangju 11 4 1 6 11 12 5 2 0 3 4 5 6 2 1 3 7 7 -1 13
8 Daegu 11 3 4 4 10 15 6 2 3 1 6 7 5 1 1 3 4 8 -5 13
9 Seoul 11 4 0 7 12 14 5 2 0 3 6 5 6 2 0 4 6 9 -2 12
10 Gangwon 11 3 3 5 11 15 5 2 1 2 6 4 6 1 2 3 5 11 -4 12
11 Incheon United 11 3 1 7 12 21 5 2 1 2 6 6 6 1 0 5 6 15 -9 10
12 Suwon 11 2 3 6 8 17 5 2 1 2 5 5 6 0 2 4 3 12 -9 9

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.