National League preview: Can Mokpo City edge out victory against Busan Transportation?

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Competition: Korea Republic National League
Competition: Sun 13.Aug
Match begins: 10:00 (UTC)
Venue: Mokpo International Football Center Main (5952 seats)

Mokpo City are finding life sweet in the top league positions while Busan Transportation are more involved in avoiding relegation. Who will get the points?

Insights:
  • Mokpo City have the most scored goals (29) in National League
  • Mokpo City have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Busan Transportation have scored away.

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Mokpo City form and stats

Mokpo City are steadily winning National League games and points here at Mokpo International Football Center Main. 5 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat is the summary from 9 games.

Mokpo's last game was hosting Siheung Citizen (placed 7th) and winning 4-3. As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today?

Preceding that game was the home draw versus Gimhae City that ended 1-1.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Mokpo City handle that role? We have found 5 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 3 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats.

Mokpo have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Mokpo International Football Center Main with 16 goals in 9 league matches.

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Busan Transportation form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Busan Transportation so far with only 7 points returning home. The records show 2-1-4 (win-draw-lose).

The followers enjoyed Busan Transportation's previous fixture versus Yangju Citizen (placed 12th), a 2-1 win played at home.

Ahead of that match was the victory versus Paju Citizen at their stadium, the result 1-0.

Transportation are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 0 wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats. From a total of 6 matches.

The attacking power of Busan Transportation when travelling is not overwhelming with 6 goals scored from 7 league matches away. As opposed to that, Transportation have seen the ball go into their own net 8 times on the road. Busan Transportation has visited these top teams three times, and 2 of 3 has ended with 2 goals or more!

Head 2 Head

The two combatants have battled earlier this season: Busan Transportation - Mokpo City 0-2. Statistics for the former ten meetings involving these two participants are: four wins for Mokpo, one draw and five wins for Busan Transportation. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games.

Top Goalscorers

Mokpo CityG. Jo
G. Jo
10 goals
Mokpo CityJ. Jegal
J. Jegal
7 goals
Busan TransportationJ. Woo
J. Woo
6 goals

Mokpo City missing players

Busan Transportation missing players

Mokpo City Busan Transportation
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
18 9 2 Played P 3 7 18
10 5 2 Won W 1 2 4
5 3 0 Drew D 0 1 6
3 1 0 Lost L 2 4 8
29 16 3 Scored S 3 6 16
16 9 0 Conceded C 4 8 21
89% 89% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
72% 78% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 57% 61%
39% 56% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 43% 33%
22% 22% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 11%
11% 11% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
39% 56% 0% BTTS BTTS 67% 57% 56%
50% 44% 100% Clean Sheets C S 33% 14% 11%
22% 11% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 29% 33%
 
3.9 3.8 4.5 Corners for (avg) C F 3.3 4.7 4.6
4.5 5.3 3 Corners against (avg) C A 2.7 3.9 3.3
1.3 0.8 0.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.7 1.1 1.2
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
10.4 10.4 11 Shots (avg) S ( 6.3 10 10.2
3.6 4 3.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.3 3.9 3.7
45% 44% 43% Goal Efficiency G E 43% 22% 24%
 
7.6 6.8 4 Shots against (avg) S A 10 8.9 8.3
2.9 2.7 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2.7 3.3 3.1
Key stats in National League this season:
  • Busan Transportation have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Busan Transportation haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Mokpo City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Mokpo City have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Busan Transportation have scored away.
  • Mokpo City have the most scored goals (29) in National League
  • Mokpo City have the most scored goals in the first half (13) in National League
  • Mokpo City is in the best form (4-2-0) 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 Hwaseong 18 12 5 1 28 10 9 6 3 0 14 4 9 6 2 1 14 6 18 41
2 Mokpo City 18 10 5 3 29 16 9 5 3 1 16 9 9 5 2 2 13 7 13 35
3 Ulsan Citize 19 10 4 5 23 18 9 6 0 3 13 7 10 4 4 2 10 11 5 34
4 Gimhae City 18 8 7 3 22 16 8 5 2 1 10 6 10 3 5 2 12 10 6 31
5 Paju Citizen 19 9 3 7 24 17 10 6 0 4 17 9 9 3 3 3 7 8 7 30
6 Chuncheon 19 7 8 4 16 13 9 4 4 1 9 6 10 3 4 3 7 7 3 29
7 Siheung Citizen 18 7 6 5 26 24 9 6 0 3 17 14 9 1 6 2 9 10 2 27
8 Pocheon 19 5 9 5 19 23 10 2 5 3 5 9 9 3 4 2 14 14 -4 24
9 Daejeon Korail 19 6 4 9 21 22 10 4 3 3 11 9 9 2 1 6 10 13 -1 22
10 Gangneung City 19 5 7 7 19 22 9 0 5 4 7 11 10 5 2 3 12 11 -3 22
11 Busan Transportation 18 4 6 8 16 21 11 2 5 4 10 13 7 2 1 4 6 8 -5 18
12 Yangju Citizen 19 4 6 9 22 31 10 2 6 2 13 14 9 2 0 7 9 17 -9 18
13 Gyeongju HNP 19 4 6 9 15 24 9 2 2 5 7 11 10 2 4 4 8 13 -9 18
14 Changwon City 19 4 4 11 12 23 8 2 2 4 6 7 11 2 2 7 6 16 -11 16
15 Yangpyeong 19 3 4 12 18 30 10 2 2 6 11 15 9 1 2 6 7 15 -12 13
16 Goyang KH 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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.