It's advantage Gangneung City so far with their 2nd position in the National League table, welcoming Daejeon Korail who are placed 6th.
The hosts Gangneung saw competitive action as recent as four days ago, playing in the FA Cup. That game was an away game at Gangwon, so at least Gangneung are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!
Gangneung City form and stats
As mentioned below, Gangneung City are feasting on a winning streak here so far with maximum points from their first 3 National League games.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Ho-Seung Lee not having conceded a league goal in 270 minutes.
Gangneung faced defeat in their previous match, away at Gangwon (after extra-time) (1-2). Before that, Gangneung had a National League home game versus Chuncheon which ended with a victory 5-0.
The defeat against Gangwon (after extra-time) was especially painful as the deciding goal against was scored two minutes into stoppage time (by Seo Min-Woo).
Gangneung are showing their attacking force in their league home games this season, scoring more than 2,5 goals per game on average (8 goals in 3 games). Gangneung City have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 0 goals.
Daejeon Korail form and stats
2-0-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Daejeon Korail in their National League matches away.
A 2-2 draw was the result before that, hosting Mokpo City.
Daejeon Korail are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 6 times in 4 away games so far. Daejeon have conceded 4 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Gangneung four wins, two draws and Daejeon Korail four victories. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.Gangneung City missing players
Daejeon Korail missing players
| Gangneung City | Daejeon Korail | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | 8 | 1 | Scored | S | 1 | 6 | 12 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 3 | 4 | 6 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 67% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 75% | 83% |
| 33% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 75% | 83% |
| 33% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 33% |
| 17% | 33% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 50% | 50% |
| 83% | 100% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 33% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 25% | 17% |
| 3 | 3 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 5 | 5.5 |
| 2.5 | 2.5 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | 23 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 6 | 16 |
| 12 | 12 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 5 | 12 |
| 58% | 58% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 40% | 33% |
- Daejeon Korail have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Daejeon Korail haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Gangneung City has the fewest conceded goals (0) at home
- Gangneung City has the fewest conceded goals (1)
- Gangneung City has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (0)
- Gangneung City has the most clean sheets (5)
- Gangneung City has the most scored goals in the second half (9)
- Gangneung City has the the best goal difference (+8) at home
- Gangneung City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Gangneung City have scored in all their matches so far.
- Gangneung City have won all their games so far.
- Gangneung City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Gimhae City | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 12 | 18 |
| 2 | Gangneung City | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 18 |
| 3 | Gyeongju HNP | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 13 |
| 4 | Busan Transportation | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 12 |
| 5 | Hwaseong | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 |
| 6 | Daejeon Korail | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| 7 | Cheonan City | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 9 |
| 8 | Mokpo City | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| 9 | Cheongju | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | -1 | 8 |
| 10 | Gimpo | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 11 | Yangju Citizen | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | -7 | 5 |
| 12 | Changwon City | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | -7 | 4 |
| 13 | Gyeongju Citizen | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | -9 | 4 |
| 14 | Pyeongtaek Citizen | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -4 | 3 |
| 15 | Jeonju | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -9 | 1 |
| 16 | Chuncheon | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 13 | -11 | 1 |