K-League 1 duel: Close contest expected between Sangju Sangmu and Jeju United

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Competition: Korea Republic K-League 1
Competition: Tue 05.July
Match begins: 10:00 (UTC)
Venue: Gimcheon Stadium

Home advantage is relaxed and friendly for Sangju Sangmu, but Jeju United are fully motivated and qualified to go home as winners. Who will win?

Insights:
  • Sangju Sangmu is in the worst form (0-3-3)
  • 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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Sangju Sangmu form and stats

The story so far in the K-League 1 for Sangju Sangmu at their home stadium (Gimcheon Stadium) is 3 wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats.

The Sangju crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 1-2 to Jeonbuk Motors here at Gimcheon Stadium. Midfielder Lee was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.84 (out of ten) in that game. Lee served one assist, hit one key pass and had 43 successful passes (of 49 total).

1-1 away at Pohang Steelers before that.

This is expected to be a close game, with Sangju Sangmu perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Sangju Sangmu as a small favourite), we find 14 games. Sangju Sangmu has won 9 of these, drawn 4 and lost 1.

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

The Sangju fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 10 in 9 matches. On the other hand, Sangju Sangmu have conceded 10 goals. When Sangju Sangmu hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Seongnam, Gangwon and Suwon Bluewings), the matches have ended over 2.5 goals 2 of 3 times.

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Jeju United form and stats

5 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses. That’s the product of Jeju United playing as the away team in the K-League 1 this season. Jeju has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.

Jeju United's last game was the home draw against Seoul (2-2). It looked so good for Jeju United vs Seoul, but the job was not completed and victory was lost as a 2-0 lead was turned into a 2-2 draw. Kim had red hot gloves after the game against Seoul, shaping the outcome of the game with seven saves made.

Preceding that game, the 2-4 loss visiting Gangwon's place.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 14 similar matches played by Jeju in our archives, and the results are: 4 wins for Jeju United, 3 draws and 7 defeats.

After this away game Jeju United return home for a K-League 1 game against Seongnam. That game is only three sleeps after this.

Jeju are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 14 times in 9 away games so far. 11 goals have been conceded by Jeju United in these games.

Head 2 Head

The former head to head match ended Jeju United - Sangju Sangmu 3-1, earlier this season. Sangju Sangmu-Jeju United H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Sangju five wins, Jeju United one win, four draws. five of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Jeju UnitedM. Joo
M. Joo
12 goals
Sangju SangmuK. Cho
K. Cho
11 goals
Jeju UnitedG. Fernandes
G. Fernandes
3 goals

Sangju Sangmu missing players

Jeju United missing players

Sangju Sangmu Jeju United
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
19 9 3 Played P 3 9 19
4 3 1 Won W 2 5 8
7 3 0 Drew D 0 1 6
8 3 2 Lost L 1 3 5
21 10 4 Scored S 5 14 24
24 10 6 Conceded C 5 11 20
95% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 79%
74% 78% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 67% 63%
37% 22% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 56% 53%
21% 11% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 33% 26%
11% 11% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 11% 5%
58% 56% 67% BTTS BTTS 67% 56% 47%
21% 22% 0% Clean Sheets C S 33% 22% 37%
26% 22% 33% Failed to Score F T 0% 22% 37%
 
3.9 4.2 4.7 Corners for (avg) C F 4 4.2 4.9
4.9 3.9 4.3 Corners against (avg) C A 4 4.2 3.3
1.5 1.3 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.6 1.8
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
10.1 11.1 11.7 Shots (avg) S ( 11.7 12 11.6
4.1 4.6 5.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.3 5.1 4.5
27% 24% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 31% 30% 28%
 
11.3 10.9 11.7 Shots against (avg) S A 8.3 9.4 9.1
4.3 4.9 7.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.7 3.9 4.1
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.
  • Sangju Sangmu haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Sangju Sangmu is in the worst form (0-3-3)

  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 19 12 4 3 28 16 9 5 3 1 13 8 10 7 1 2 15 8 12 40
2 Jeonbuk Motors 19 10 5 4 23 15 9 2 4 3 7 9 10 8 1 1 16 6 8 35
3 Pohang Steelers 19 8 6 5 25 17 9 5 3 1 13 5 10 3 3 4 12 12 8 30
4 Jeju United 19 8 6 5 24 20 10 3 5 2 10 9 9 5 1 3 14 11 4 30
5 Incheon United 18 7 7 4 23 19 10 4 4 2 13 9 8 3 3 2 10 10 4 28
6 Daegu 18 5 8 5 25 23 9 5 2 2 15 8 9 0 6 3 10 15 2 23
7 Seoul 19 5 8 6 22 21 9 3 3 3 13 11 10 2 5 3 9 10 1 23
8 Suwon 18 6 3 9 26 29 9 4 1 4 19 18 9 2 2 5 7 11 -3 21
9 Gangwon 19 5 6 8 22 28 10 4 2 4 13 12 9 1 4 4 9 16 -6 21
10 Sangju Sangmu 19 4 7 8 21 24 9 3 3 3 10 10 10 1 4 5 11 14 -3 19
11 Suwon Bluewings 18 4 6 8 13 22 9 4 2 3 8 7 9 0 4 5 5 15 -9 18
12 Seongnam 19 2 6 11 13 31 10 0 4 6 6 19 9 2 2 5 7 12 -18 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.