The home team stadium regulars bank on a victory in this game, and the home advantage should work versus a struggling visitor. Seoul are in 7th position while the guesting Sangju Sangmu stress at 9th.
- Seoul have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Sangju Sangmu have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
The hosts Seoul saw competitive action as recent as three days ago, playing in the FA Cup. Thankfully the previous game, versus Jeju United, was also a home game here at Seoul World Cup Stadium. The away team is better rested.
Seoul form and stats
The overall K-League 1 stats at home this season for Seoul are 3-1-2 (wins-draws-losses).
Seoul are anxiously hoping for a goal as it's been 192 minutes since the last one in league fixtures. (Scored by Sang-Ho).
Seoul's previous fixture was a FA Cup game also played at their home, finishing 3-1 versus Jeju United. The home side are looking to build on that result.
Ahead of that match, Seoul lost 0-1 at home to Seongnam.The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Seoul have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 12 matches with the results: Won 3, drawn 4 and lost 5.
A decent goal production from Seoul in their home games so far, with 9 goals from 6 league matches.
Sangju Sangmu form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Sangju Sangmu so far with only 5 points returning home. The records show 1-2-5 (win-draw-lose). Three might be a magic number, but there's been little wizardry in Sangju Sangmu's last three away games as they have all been lost.
The manager Kim was unhappy after their last game, played at their home ground Sangju Stadium. Sangju Sangmu suffered a 0-2 loss to Ulsan (placed 1st). Ko got a match rating of 7.03 in that game, top player of the team. Ko had 39 successful passes (of 43 total).
Prior to that match, the Sangju Sangmu manager Kim faced defeat when travelling to Suwon Bluewings and losing 1-2.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 9 similar matches played by Sangju in our archives, and the results are: 5 wins for Sangju Sangmu, 2 draws and 2 defeats.
Sangju Sangmu have conceded 11 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
The two teams in this fixture also met each other earlier on this season: Sangju Sangmu - Seoul 2-0. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Seoul four wins, two draws and Sangju Sangmu four victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  K. Cho 9 goals |  S. Na 5 goals |  Y. Cho 2 goals |
Seoul missing players
Sangju Sangmu missing players
| Seoul | Sangju Sangmu | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 6 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 8 | 14 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 3 | 5 | 6 |
| 15 | 9 | 5 | Scored | S | 1 | 8 | 16 |
| 14 | 6 | 4 | Conceded | C | 4 | 11 | 17 |
| 93% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 88% | 93% |
| 71% | 67% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 33% | 62% | 71% |
| 29% | 50% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 50% | 36% |
| 14% | 33% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 21% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 12% | 14% |
| 50% | 50% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 50% | 50% |
| 29% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 29% |
| 29% | 17% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 67% | 38% | 29% |
| 5.5 | 6.7 | 9.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.3 | 3.8 | 3.9 |
| 3.4 | 3.2 | 2.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.7 | 5.4 | 4.7 |
| 1.8 | 1.8 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.7 | 2 | 1.6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10.4 | 12 | 12.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9 | 10.2 | 10.4 |
| 4.1 | 4.5 | 5.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 3.8 | 4 |
| 26% | 33% | 31% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 10% | 27% | 29% |
| 7.2 | 6 | 5.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 6.7 | 10.9 | 10.9 |
| 3.4 | 3.3 | 3.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.3 | 3.9 | 4.1 |
- Sangju Sangmu have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Seoul have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Seoul have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- Seoul have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Seoul haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
| 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 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 23 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 14 | 33 |
| 2 | Jeonbuk Motors | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 25 |
| 3 | Jeju United | 14 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 16 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 23 |
| 4 | Pohang Steelers | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 22 |
| 5 | Incheon United | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 16 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 21 |
| 6 | Daegu | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 1 | 17 |
| 7 | Seoul | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 17 |
| 8 | Suwon Bluewings | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | -4 | 17 |
| 9 | Sangju Sangmu | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 11 | -1 | 16 |
| 10 | Gangwon | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 18 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 9 | -5 | 14 |
| 11 | Suwon | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 19 | 26 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 11 | -7 | 12 |
| 12 | Seongnam | 14 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 26 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -15 | 9 |
