K-League 1 preview: Can Seoul edge out victory against Suwon?

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Competition: Korea Republic K-League 1
Competition: Sat 10.September
Match begins: 10:00 (UTC)
Venue: Seoul World Cup Stadium (66080 seats)

A traditional home win, the away team runs away as victors or a point each? It's all possible when the mid-table inhabitants Seoul and Suwon duel at Seoul World Cup Stadium.

Insights:
  • Seoul have the fewest scored goals in the first half (7) in K-League 1
  • Suwon have the most scored goals (47) in K-League 1

It's no vacation for neither Seoul nor Suwon as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Seoul form and stats

When playing at home in the K-League 1, Seoul have managed 5 wins, 3 draws and suffered 6 defeats from 14 games.

Seoul travelled for their previous game, a trip to Jeonbuk Motors that ended 0-0. Goalkeeper Yang got the top rating on the team in that game; 7.82 out of ten. Yang topped it up with a clean sheet.

Ahead of that match, Seoul lost 1-3 at home to Suwon Bluewings.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Seoul handle that role? We have found 8 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 6 wins, 0 draws and 2 defeats.

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Seoul, as the K-League 1 home game vs Gangwon is only three days away.

Seoul has scored 18 league goals at home this season, in 14 matches. Seoul's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 18 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Suwon form and stats

As the visiting team in K-League 1 matches, Suwon have produced an overall stat of 4-4-6 so far.

Suwon are travelling after their nice 1-0 home win in the match against Pohang Steelers (placed 3rd). Midfield player Murilo was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.75/10. Murilo served one assist, hit four key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

A 2-2 draw was the result before that, hosting Jeju United.

Suwon are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 3 wins, 4 draws and 6 defeats. From a total of 13 matches.

Sports betting statistic: Both teams have scored in 8 of this club's last 10 league matches.

A quick return to home after this game, as Suwon are hosting Sangju Sangmu in the K-League 1 only three days away.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Suwon as they have only managed to score 13 times from 14 away games in the league. 16 goals have been conceded by Suwon in these games.

Head 2 Head

The squads have met each other previously this season, with the result Suwon - Seoul 4-3 logged in the official records. H2H stats regardless of arena (last eight matches): Seoul six wins, one draw and Suwon one victory. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

SuwonS. Lee
S. Lee
11 goals
SeoulS. Na
S. Na
7 goals
SuwonJ. Jeong
J. Jeong
7 goals

Seoul missing players

Suwon missing players

Seoul Suwon
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
30 14 3 Played P 3 14 30
9 5 0 Won W 2 4 11
10 3 1 Drew D 1 4 7
11 6 2 Lost L 0 6 12
35 18 3 Scored S 5 13 47
37 18 6 Conceded C 2 16 48
93% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 86% 93%
77% 79% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 57% 70%
40% 50% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 36% 60%
20% 29% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 21% 43%
3% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 7% 23%
57% 57% 67% BTTS BTTS 33% 43% 60%
23% 21% 0% Clean Sheets C S 67% 36% 23%
27% 21% 33% Failed to Score F T 33% 36% 23%
 
5.2 6.1 6 Corners for (avg) C F 3.3 3.1 3.5
3.6 3.6 3.7 Corners against (avg) C A 6 5.1 5
1.7 2.1 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.4 1.3
2 2 1 Red cards R C 0 1 3
 
10.6 12.3 10 Shots (avg) S ( 7 7.9 9.5
4.4 5.1 4.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.3 3.1 4.1
27% 25% 23% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 30% 39%
 
8.3 7.6 8.3 Shots against (avg) S A 10 10.2 11.6
4 4.1 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3 4.6 5
Key stats in K-League 1 this season:
  • Seoul have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Seoul have the fewest scored goals in the first half (7) in K-League 1
  • Seoul haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Suwon have the fewest scored goals (13) away in K-League 1
  • Suwon have the most matches over the total-line (15) in K-League 1
  • Suwon have the most scored goals (47) 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 30 18 8 4 45 26 15 10 4 1 25 12 15 8 4 3 20 14 19 62
2 Jeonbuk Motors 31 15 10 6 43 29 15 4 8 3 16 16 16 11 2 3 27 13 14 55
3 Pohang Steelers 30 13 9 8 42 32 15 8 5 2 23 11 15 5 4 6 19 21 10 48
4 Incheon United 30 12 11 7 38 31 15 6 5 4 19 13 15 6 6 3 19 18 7 47
5 Jeju United 31 12 9 10 42 37 16 5 6 5 21 17 15 7 3 5 21 20 5 45
6 Suwon 30 11 7 12 47 48 16 7 3 6 34 32 14 4 4 6 13 16 -1 40
7 Gangwon 30 11 6 13 41 45 15 7 2 6 21 19 15 4 4 7 20 26 -4 39
8 Seoul 30 9 10 11 35 37 14 5 3 6 18 18 16 4 7 5 17 19 -2 37
9 Suwon Bluewings 30 8 9 13 30 38 14 5 5 4 15 12 16 3 4 9 15 26 -8 33
10 Sangju Sangmu 31 7 10 14 37 38 16 4 4 8 19 20 15 3 6 6 18 18 -1 31
11 Daegu 31 6 13 12 35 48 16 6 5 5 20 19 15 0 8 7 15 29 -13 31
12 Seongnam 30 6 6 18 29 55 15 3 4 8 15 29 15 3 2 10 14 26 -26 24

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.