Scrambling Gangneung City will be hoping to pull off a surprise win when they greet enterprising Busan Transportation in the upcoming league match. It’s 12th vs 4th and the home supporters will have moderate expectations.
- Gangneung City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Busan Transportation have the most scored goals (46) in National League
This looks to be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well recovered since they last ran out on the pitch. Let's get started!
Gangneung City form and stats
When playing at home in the National League, Gangneung City have managed 5 wins, 3 draws and suffered 6 defeats from 14 games.
The Gangneung City fans got no joy from their last match, also played here at Gangneung Stadium: A 1-2 defeat against Paju Citizen (placed 2nd). Heartbreak for Gangneung City in their last match as Paju Citizen's Eun-San scored the winning goal deep into overtime.
Ahead of that match, Gangneung won a home game hosting Mokpo City (4-1).Gangneung City are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 17 goals in 14 games. 20 goals have been conceded. When Gangneung City hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Dangjin Citizen, Mokpo City, Cheonan City, Ulsan Citize and Cheongju), the matches have ended over 2.5 goals 4 of 4 times.
Busan Transportation form and stats
The visitors are W5-D7-L2 on the road this term. That's in the National League. Transportation have been producing wins at home as well, producing a total of five victories in a row regardless of arena.
It's the second away game in a row for Busan Transportation, but there's smiles all around after the 6-1 victory versus Mokpo City (placed 14th) last time out. As you can tell from the results above, Busan Transportation was very dominant against Mokpo City, winning the match with a scoreline that even the finest fortune teller couldn't predict. 6-1 (!) with Kwon, Hwang (2), Lee and Shin (2) providing the goals. Shin has scored at least one goal for this team five fixtures in a row. The talent!
That result followed a home victory 3-2 versus Ulsan Citize.Take note! Both sides have scored goal(s) in 9 of this club's latest 12 league fixtures.
Busan Transportation are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 23 times in 14 away games so far. It's worth mentioning that 12 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (13 so far).
Head 2 Head
Busan Transportation have pulled off a sequence of 7 consecutive games without defeat (5-2-0) when facing Gangneung.The duelists have played before this season: Busan Transportation - Gangneung City 1-1.
Top Goalscorers
  Y. Shin 16 goals |   Baek Seung-Woo 9 goals | M. Lee 7 goals |
Gangneung City missing players
Busan Transportation missing players
| Gangneung City | Busan Transportation | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 29 | 14 | 4 | Played | P | 5 | 14 | 29 |
| 8 | 5 | 0 | Won | W | 3 | 5 | 11 |
| 9 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 7 | 13 |
| 12 | 6 | 4 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 36 | 17 | 3 | Scored | S | 11 | 23 | 46 |
| 42 | 20 | 10 | Conceded | C | 2 | 13 | 30 |
| 90% | 79% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 80% | 86% | 86% |
| 79% | 71% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 80% | 86% | 79% |
| 55% | 71% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 20% | 36% | 41% |
| 24% | 29% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 20% | 21% | 24% |
| 17% | 14% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 20% | 14% | 17% |
| 66% | 64% | 75% | BTTS | BTTS | 40% | 64% | 62% |
| 17% | 29% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 60% | 36% | 31% |
| 28% | 29% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 20% | 14% | 21% |
| 4.1 | 4.9 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.4 | 2.9 | 3.3 |
| 3.6 | 3.3 | 3.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.2 | 3.4 | 3.8 |
| 1.9 | 1.4 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.6 | 1.4 | 1.4 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9.3 | 9.4 | 7.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.2 | 7 | 8 |
| 3.9 | 3.9 | 3.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.4 | 2.7 | 3.4 |
| 32% | 31% | 23% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 65% | 61% | 46% |
| 9.8 | 9.7 | 10.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 6.4 | 8.6 | 9.4 |
| 3.7 | 3.6 | 5.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 1.8 | 3.1 | 3.5 |
- Busan Transportation have the most scored goals (46) in National League
- Busan Transportation have the most scored goals in the second half (26) in National League
- Busan Transportation have the the best goal difference (+10) away in National League
- Gangneung City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Changwon City | 29 | 16 | 6 | 7 | 37 | 21 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 7 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 14 | 16 | 54 |
| 2 | Paju Citizen | 29 | 14 | 11 | 4 | 40 | 29 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 20 | 14 | 15 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 20 | 15 | 11 | 53 |
| 3 | Gyeongju HNP | 29 | 14 | 8 | 7 | 42 | 25 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 21 | 11 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 21 | 14 | 17 | 50 |
| 4 | Busan Transportation | 29 | 11 | 13 | 5 | 46 | 30 | 15 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 23 | 17 | 14 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 23 | 13 | 16 | 46 |
| 5 | Hwaseong | 29 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 33 | 26 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 16 | 12 | 7 | 46 |
| 6 | Gimhae City | 29 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 32 | 24 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 12 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 12 | 8 | 45 |
| 7 | Siheung Citizen | 29 | 13 | 6 | 10 | 38 | 32 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 26 | 17 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 15 | 6 | 45 |
| 8 | Yangju Citizen | 29 | 12 | 5 | 12 | 30 | 28 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 19 | 15 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 13 | 2 | 41 |
| 9 | Pocheon | 29 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 39 | 34 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 16 | 12 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 23 | 22 | 5 | 39 |
| 10 | Daejeon Korail | 29 | 11 | 5 | 13 | 27 | 36 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 18 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 14 | 18 | -9 | 38 |
| 11 | Cheonan City | 29 | 8 | 13 | 8 | 28 | 26 | 14 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 13 | 13 | 15 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 2 | 37 |
| 12 | Gangneung City | 29 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 36 | 42 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 20 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 19 | 22 | -6 | 33 |
| 13 | Cheongju | 29 | 7 | 9 | 13 | 21 | 39 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 19 | 14 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 20 | -18 | 30 |
| 14 | Mokpo City | 29 | 8 | 4 | 17 | 23 | 45 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 17 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 12 | 28 | -22 | 28 |
| 15 | Ulsan Citize | 29 | 6 | 9 | 14 | 27 | 38 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 20 | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 18 | 18 | -11 | 27 |
| 16 | Dangjin Citizen | 29 | 3 | 8 | 18 | 26 | 50 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 18 | 24 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 26 | -24 | 17 |
