Soccer match preview: Home crowds with high hopes before Busan Transportation - Yangju Citizen

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Competition: Korea Republic National League
Competition: Sat 11.September
Match begins: 06:00 (UTC)
Venue: Busan Gudeok Stadium (24363 seats)

Three points is the only outcome that will be enough for the Busan Transportation followers in this Busan Gudeok Stadium battle with Yangju Citizen, seeing as they have a solid lead on the away side in the National League table.

Insights:
  • Busan Transportation have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Yangju Citizen have the fewest scored goals (11) in National League

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

It should be mentioned that Yangju Citizen play their home matches on artifical turf, so they have to adjust for this one as it's played on grass. Does it matter? Recent statistics for Yangju Citizen on grass are 9 victories, 7 draws and 18 defeats from 34 games. In these matches they have a goal statistics scored/conceded: 30-56. You can compare this with overall results below.

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Busan Transportation form and stats

Busan Transportation have played 9 National League games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 3-6-0 (wins-draws-losses).

Busan Transportation are returning here after visiting Cheongju in a National League game and winning with a 3-1 scoreline. Han Sang-Woon (2) scored the goal(s).

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Gangneung City in a game that was won 2-1.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Transportation as they are travelling to their away game against Pyeongtaek Citizen in the National League. That match is four days after this one.

Transportation are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 11 goals in 9 games. Busan Transportation are not conceding a lot of goals here at Busan Gudeok Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 7 from 9 matches.

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Yangju Citizen form and stats

Yangju Citizen have only collected 8 points from their away games in the National League, after 2-2-5 (9 played). The sun doesn’t shine and the birds do not sing for Citizen, who have now gone 13 games without a victory. The Changwon City game was their last win and it’s been a dry spell since.

Citizen played 1-1 against Changwon City in their previous match.

The game before that, was lost at home, a 0-1 defeat against Ulsan Citize.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Gangneung City in just four days.

There's been a serious shortage of goals from Citizen's away games in the league this season with only 4 goals from 9 matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. 11 goals have been conceded by Yangju Citizen in these games.

Head 2 Head

Yangju Citizen - Transportation 1-1 was the outcome when this pair of participants last met, earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last two matches): Busan Transportation one win, one draw and Yangju Citizen zero victories. As for goals, zero matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Busan TransportationY. Choi
Y. Choi
6 goals
TransportationS. Han
S. Han
5 goals
Yangju CitizenJ. Hwang
J. Hwang
4 goals

Busan Transportation missing players

Yangju Citizen missing players

Busan Transportation Yangju Citizen
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
20 9 4 Played P 4 9 19
8 3 2 Won W 0 2 3
8 6 2 Drew D 0 2 6
4 0 0 Lost L 4 5 10
23 11 5 Scored S 0 4 11
21 7 3 Conceded C 9 11 29
95% 89% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 78% 84%
70% 78% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 67% 74%
30% 22% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 22% 32%
15% 11% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 11%
5% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 5%
60% 67% 75% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 26%
25% 33% 25% Clean Sheets C S 0% 44% 26%
20% 11% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 78% 63%
 
4.4 3.9 3.7 Corners for (avg) C F 2.8 3.7 3.4
3.9 4.4 2.7 Corners against (avg) C A 3.5 4.4 4.2
1.6 1.8 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 1.4 1.5
1 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 2
 
8.9 9.4 10.3 Shots (avg) S ( 1.5 4.8 5.9
3.2 3.2 3.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0.5 1.6 2
37% 38% 40% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 29% 28%
Key stats in National League this season:
  • Busan Transportation have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Busan Transportation have scored more than double the goals of Yangju Citizen.
  • Yangju Citizen have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Yangju Citizen have the fewest points from losing position (0) in National League
  • Yangju Citizen have the fewest scored goals (11) in National League
  • Yangju Citizen have the fewest scored goals in the second half (6) in National League
  • Yangju Citizen have the the worst goal difference (-18) in National League

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Gimpo 20 11 6 3 25 13 10 5 3 2 15 8 10 6 3 1 10 5 12 39
2 Cheonan City 21 11 5 5 37 18 12 6 2 4 17 11 9 5 3 1 20 7 19 38
3 Mokpo City 21 10 7 4 21 15 10 4 6 0 10 5 11 6 1 4 11 10 6 37
4 Ulsan Citize 21 9 6 6 24 14 11 6 3 2 15 4 10 3 3 4 9 10 10 33
5 Busan Transportation 20 8 8 4 23 21 9 3 6 0 11 7 11 5 2 4 12 14 2 32
6 Gyeongju HNP 21 9 4 8 30 26 11 5 3 3 16 13 10 4 1 5 14 13 4 31
7 Gimhae City 21 8 7 6 25 25 10 4 3 3 14 14 11 4 4 3 11 11 0 31
8 Paju Citizen 21 7 8 6 26 27 11 4 3 4 12 13 10 3 5 2 14 14 -1 29
9 Daejeon Korail 21 6 10 5 26 22 10 4 4 2 12 6 11 2 6 3 14 16 4 28
10 Changwon City 20 7 7 6 21 20 9 4 1 4 10 9 11 3 6 2 11 11 1 28
11 Hwaseong 20 6 7 7 21 23 11 5 1 5 10 12 9 1 6 2 11 11 -2 25
12 Cheongju 20 5 5 10 25 32 10 2 2 6 13 21 10 3 3 4 12 11 -7 20
13 Yangju Citizen 19 3 6 10 11 29 10 1 4 5 7 18 9 2 2 5 4 11 -18 15
14 Pyeongtaek Citizen 20 3 5 12 14 28 10 2 4 4 6 12 10 1 1 8 8 16 -14 14
15 Gangneung City 20 2 5 13 13 29 9 2 3 4 9 12 11 0 2 9 4 17 -16 11

Read more about National League

The Korea National League, formerly known as the K2 League, is the third highest tier of football in South Korea. It has eight teams playing a season from March to November- Each team plays 28 fixtures and the top three in the league table enter the subsequent play-offs. Currently no teams are promoted.