Football match preview: Seongnam vs Sangju Sangmu

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Competition: Korea Republic K-League 1
Competition: Fri 05.August
Match begins: 10:00 (UTC)
Venue: Seongnam Tancheon Sports Complex (16000 seats)

This game features two sides residing in the carpet of the K-League 1, Seongnam holding 12th position and Sangju Sangmu lying 10th. A nice chance for one of the contenders to upgrade their situation.

Insights:
  • Seongnam have the most conceded goals (43) in K-League 1
  • Sangju Sangmu have the most conceded goals in the first half (15) in K-League 1

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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Seongnam form and stats

Seongnam's struggle is real here at Seongnam Tancheon Sports Complex with only 7 points collected from 12 K-League 1 games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-4-7.

Happy days for Seongnam in their previous game, a fixture away at Jeju United (placed 5th) that ended with a 2-1 victory. The versatile forward Mulić outperformed all the other footballers in that match and was awarded a match rating of 9.11 out of 10. Mulić scored two goals, hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

Before that, Seongnam had a home game versus Incheon United which ended with a victory 3-1.

Goals from both sides! That has occurred in 5 league rounds in a row for this side. Could it happen again?

Seongnam aren't scoring a lot here at Seongnam Tancheon Sports Complex in the league, with only 10 goals from 12 games.

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Sangju Sangmu form and stats

There's been little loot from Sangju Sangmu's travels as they have only collected 8 points from 12 away games in the K-League 1. Sangju Sangmu only have 1 win to counter their 6 defeats and 5 draws.

Sangju aren't clicking offensively as they have gone 274 league minutes without a goal. Sang-Hyuk was the last player to find the net.

Sangju Sangmu's previous game was their home loss versus Pohang Steelers (0-1). Attacker Kim got a player rating of 7.45 in the game. "Man of the match" Kim hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 20 successful passes (of 24 total).

A 0-0 draw at Suwon Bluewings's stadium before that.

Sangju have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 12 league away games 13 goals have been scored. Sangju Sangmu have conceded 17 goals in these away matches. When Sangju Sangmu is visiting a side on the bottom half, 2 of 3 matches have ended with three or more goals. These are matches against Gangwon, Sangju Sangmu and Suwon Bluewings.

Head 2 Head

Sangju Sangmu - Seongnam 1-1 was the end result in these squads' last H2H fixture, played this season. Seongnam-Sangju Sangmu H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Seongnam three wins, Sangju Sangmu four wins, three draws. two of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Sangju SangmuK. Cho
K. Cho
12 goals
SeongnamF. Mulić
F. Mulić
5 goals

Seongnam missing players

Sangju Sangmu missing players

Seongnam Sangju Sangmu
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
24 12 2 Played P 3 12 24
4 1 0 Won W 0 1 5
6 4 1 Drew D 1 5 8
14 7 1 Lost L 2 6 11
23 10 2 Scored S 3 13 27
43 24 4 Conceded C 5 17 29
92% 92% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 83% 92%
71% 83% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 67% 67%
50% 58% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 50% 38%
38% 42% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 33% 25%
17% 8% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 17% 12%
50% 50% 50% BTTS BTTS 67% 58% 50%
12% 8% 0% Clean Sheets C S 33% 25% 25%
46% 50% 50% Failed to Score F T 33% 33% 33%
 
4.2 4.8 5 Corners for (avg) C F 7 4.3 4.1
5.4 4.8 8 Corners against (avg) C A 3 5.5 5.3
1.8 2 0.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.7 1.7 1.4
3 2 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
9.4 9.4 7.5 Shots (avg) S ( 11 9.4 10.4
4 4.5 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.7 3.6 4.2
24% 19% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 27% 30% 26%
 
10.8 8.9 6.5 Shots against (avg) S A 12 12 11.5
3.9 3.2 2.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.7 3.8 4.2
Key stats in K-League 1 this season:
  • Sangju Sangmu have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Sangju Sangmu have the most conceded goals in the first half (15) in K-League 1
  • Seongnam have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
  • Seongnam have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Seongnam have the fewest clean sheets (3) in K-League 1
  • Seongnam have the fewest points (7) at home in K-League 1
  • Seongnam have the fewest points from losing position (1) in K-League 1
  • Seongnam have the most conceded goals (43) in K-League 1
  • Seongnam have the most conceded goals in the second half (33) in K-League 1
  • Seongnam have the the worst goal difference (-14) at home in K-League 1
  • Seongnam have the the worst goal difference (-20) 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 Ulsan 24 15 6 3 36 21 13 8 4 1 20 12 11 7 2 2 16 9 15 51
2 Jeonbuk Motors 23 13 6 4 30 20 12 4 5 3 13 13 11 9 1 1 17 6 10 45
3 Pohang Steelers 24 11 7 6 33 21 12 6 4 2 16 8 12 5 3 4 17 13 12 40
4 Incheon United 24 8 10 6 28 26 12 4 5 3 14 11 12 4 5 3 14 15 2 34
5 Jeju United 24 9 7 8 29 30 12 4 5 3 14 13 12 5 2 5 15 17 -1 34
6 Seoul 24 7 9 8 30 29 11 4 3 4 15 13 13 3 6 4 15 16 1 30
7 Suwon 24 8 6 10 36 39 12 5 2 5 27 27 12 3 4 5 9 12 -3 30
8 Daegu 23 5 12 6 31 31 11 5 4 2 16 9 12 0 8 4 14 20 0 27
9 Gangwon 23 7 6 10 32 36 11 5 2 4 16 14 12 2 4 6 15 22 -4 27
10 Sangju Sangmu 24 5 8 11 27 29 12 4 3 5 14 12 12 1 5 6 13 17 -2 23
11 Suwon Bluewings 23 4 9 10 17 27 12 4 5 3 9 8 11 0 4 7 6 18 -10 21
12 Seongnam 24 4 6 14 23 43 12 1 4 7 10 24 12 3 2 7 13 19 -20 18

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.