Football match preview: Gangneung City vs Cheonan City

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Competition: Korea Republic National League
Competition: Sat 18.June
Match begins: 10:00 (UTC)
Venue: Gangneung Stadium (30000 seats)

Gangneung City are keen to increase their points at their own stadium in this upcoming fixture vs Cheonan City.

Insights:
  • Gangneung City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Cheonan City have the fewest scored goals (9) in National League

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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Gangneung City form and stats

Gangneung City have collected 11 points from their National League home games so far after 3-2-2. When Gangneung City hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like Dangjin Citizen, Daejeon Korail, Gangneung City, Ulsan Citize and Cheongju), they have won 2 of 4 matches! Game days at Gangneung Stadium have recently become somewhat of a nightmare for Gangneung City as they have lost three home games in a row. It hurts.

Gangneung City's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 1-2 versus Cheonan City (placed 15th).

A defeat was the result before that one, 0-1 away at Siheung Citizen.

Gangneung aren't scoring a lot here at Gangneung Stadium in the league, with only 6 goals from 7 games.

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Cheonan City form and stats

1 win, 5 draws and 1 loss. That’s the product of Cheonan City, who have the fewest scored goals (9) in National League, playing as the away team in the National League this season.

The attacking players of Cheonan City have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 244 minutes.

Cheonan play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-1 victory visiting Gangneung City (placed 11th).

Preceding that match was the 0-0 draw at home vs Ulsan Citize.

The visitors have scored 5 goals from 7 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. It's not easy to score on Cheonan City as they have only conceded 5 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

The former head to head game ended Cheonan City - Gangneung City 1-1, played this season. Previous ten meetings featuring these squads: Gangneung City won five, Cheonan City triumphed in three and we saw two draws. five games with more than 2,5 goals, five matches with under 2,5 goals.

Top Goalscorers

Gangneung CityS. Cha
S. Cha
4 goals
GangneungBaek Seung-Woo
Baek Seung-Woo
4 goals
Cheonan CityY. Yoon
Y. Yoon
3 goals

Gangneung City missing players

Cheonan City missing players

Gangneung City Cheonan City
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
17 8 4 Played P 2 8 15
5 3 2 Won W 0 2 2
6 2 2 Drew D 2 5 8
6 3 0 Lost L 0 1 5
17 7 4 Scored S 1 7 11
21 9 2 Conceded C 1 6 14
88% 75% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 75% 73%
76% 62% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 50% 53%
47% 62% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 25% 33%
6% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 12% 7%
6% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
65% 50% 50% BTTS BTTS 50% 50% 53%
18% 38% 50% Clean Sheets C S 50% 38% 33%
29% 38% 50% Failed to Score F T 50% 38% 40%
 
3.4 4 4.2 Corners for (avg) C F 4.5 4 4
3.6 3.1 4 Corners against (avg) C A 5.5 4 3.3
1.9 1.5 1.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.9 2
3 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
8.9 8 10.2 Shots (avg) S ( 14 11.4 12.3
3.6 3.4 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 4 3.9
26% 26% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 12% 22% 19%
 
10.2 8.9 9.5 Shots against (avg) S A 19.5 13.1 12.5
3.3 2.9 2.2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 5.1 5
Key stats in National League this season:
  • Cheonan City have the fewest points from losing position (0) in National League
  • Cheonan City have the fewest scored goals (9) in National League
  • Cheonan City have the fewest scored goals in the first half (3) in National League
  • Cheonan City have the fewest scored goals in the second half (6) 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 Siheung Citizen 17 9 3 5 22 17 9 6 2 1 15 8 8 3 1 4 7 9 5 30
2 Changwon City 17 8 4 5 20 13 10 5 2 3 11 5 7 3 2 2 9 8 7 28
3 Busan Transportation 17 6 8 3 22 16 12 4 5 3 17 15 5 2 3 0 5 1 6 26
4 Paju Citizen 16 6 8 2 16 13 7 4 1 2 9 8 9 2 7 0 7 5 3 26
5 Yangju Citizen 17 8 2 7 14 12 8 4 2 2 8 5 9 4 0 5 6 7 2 26
6 Gyeongju HNP 17 7 4 6 25 18 8 3 3 2 11 6 9 4 1 4 14 12 7 25
7 Hwaseong 16 6 7 3 20 14 9 3 3 3 10 11 7 3 4 0 10 3 6 25
8 Gimhae City 15 6 4 5 17 13 7 3 3 1 9 5 8 3 1 4 8 8 4 22
9 Pocheon 17 6 4 7 21 19 9 5 3 1 11 5 8 1 1 6 10 14 2 22
10 Mokpo City 16 6 4 6 16 19 8 3 3 2 8 5 8 3 1 4 8 14 -3 22
11 Gangneung City 16 5 6 5 16 19 7 3 2 2 6 7 9 2 4 3 10 12 -3 21
12 Daejeon Korail 16 6 3 7 19 23 8 3 2 3 9 10 8 3 1 4 10 13 -4 21
13 Ulsan Citize 16 5 4 7 17 21 7 2 1 4 6 11 9 3 3 3 11 10 -4 19
14 Cheongju 16 5 4 7 12 22 7 4 0 3 10 11 9 1 4 4 2 11 -10 19
15 Cheonan City 14 1 8 5 9 13 7 0 3 4 4 8 7 1 5 1 5 5 -4 11
16 Dangjin Citizen 17 1 5 11 13 27 7 1 4 2 6 9 10 0 1 9 7 18 -14 8

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.