National League statistics and preview: Paju Citizen moderate thought to top Gangneung City

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Competition: Korea Republic National League
Competition: Sat 02.Sep
Match begins: 08:00 (UTC)
Venue: Paju Public Stadium (22000 seats)

Paju Citizen and Gangneung City have delivered a "par" performance so far this season, to use a golf expression. Both have mid-table places in the National League.

Insights:
  • Paju Citizen have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Gangneung City have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

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!

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Paju Citizen form and stats

The story so far in the National League for Paju Citizen at their home stadium (Paju Public Stadium) is 6 wins, 0 draws and 5 defeats.

Citizen shared the glory with Gyeongju HNP in their last match, an away game that ended all square 1-1.

Before that game, the home loss against Changwon City with the scoreline 1-2.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Paju Citizen handle that role? We have found 10 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 6 wins, 0 draws and 4 defeats.

The Citizen fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 18 goals in 11 league matches.

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Gangneung City form and stats

5 wins, 2 draws and 4 losses. That’s the product of Gangneung City playing as the away team in the National League this season.

Gangneung City played 2-2 against Daejeon Korail in their previous match. A comeback secured a 90 minute draw in the match against Daejeon Korail. Gangneung City were trailing 0-2 but refused to surrender and clawed their way back to 2-2, with Silva scoring the equalizer.

Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Yangpyeong's place.

Gangneung are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 3 wins, 2 draws and 5 defeats. From a total of 10 matches.

Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Gangneung City have scored 12 goals in 11 league games away. As opposed to that, Gangneung have seen the ball go into their own net 12 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Paju Citizen have won every one of the 4 latest fixtures against this opponent. Will the streak continue?

Gangneung City - Paju Citizen 0-1 was the result in these participants' latest head-to-head fixture, played this season.

Top Goalscorers

Gangneung CityY. Kang
Y. Kang
6 goals
Paju CitizenE. An
E. An
5 goals
Paju CitizenJ. Moon
J. Moon
4 goals

Paju Citizen missing players

Gangneung City missing players

Paju Citizen Gangneung City
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
22 11 3 Played P 2 11 21
9 6 2 Won W 1 5 5
4 0 0 Drew D 1 2 8
9 5 1 Lost L 0 4 8
26 18 4 Scored S 2 12 21
23 11 2 Conceded C 0 12 25
86% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 91% 86%
50% 64% 33% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 55% 57%
41% 55% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 45% 43%
23% 27% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 18% 19%
14% 9% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 9% 10%
36% 45% 33% BTTS BTTS 0% 36% 48%
41% 27% 33% Clean Sheets C S 100% 45% 33%
36% 27% 33% Failed to Score F T 50% 27% 33%
 
3.7 3.3 3.3 Corners for (avg) C F 4.5 3.6 4.3
3.9 3.7 5 Corners against (avg) C A 2 3.7 3.6
1.3 1.4 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.5 1.3 1.1
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
9.2 11.8 14 Shots (avg) S ( 10.5 9.9 11
3.5 4.4 3.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.2 3.7
33% 38% 40% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 34% 27%
 
7.8 7.9 9.7 Shots against (avg) S A 5.5 8.2 8.1
2.9 2.5 3.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 1.5 3.5 3.4
Key stats in National League this season:
  • Gangneung City have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Paju Citizen have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Paju Citizen haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  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 21 13 6 2 32 17 10 6 3 1 14 8 11 7 3 1 18 9 15 45
2 Mokpo City 21 13 5 3 37 17 11 7 3 1 20 10 10 6 2 2 17 7 20 44
3 Ulsan Citize 21 12 4 5 28 18 10 7 0 3 16 7 11 5 4 2 12 11 10 40
4 Gimhae City 21 9 9 3 26 19 10 5 4 1 12 8 11 4 5 2 14 11 7 36
5 Siheung Citizen 21 8 7 6 31 28 11 7 0 4 22 18 10 1 7 2 9 10 3 31
6 Paju Citizen 22 9 4 9 26 23 11 6 0 5 18 11 11 3 4 4 8 12 3 31
7 Chuncheon 21 7 9 5 16 14 10 4 5 1 9 6 11 3 4 4 7 8 2 30
8 Daejeon Korail 22 7 6 9 27 26 11 4 4 3 11 9 11 3 2 6 16 17 1 27
9 Pocheon 21 6 9 6 21 25 11 3 5 3 6 9 10 3 4 3 15 16 -4 27
10 Gangneung City 21 5 8 8 21 25 10 0 6 4 9 13 11 5 2 4 12 12 -4 23
11 Busan Transportation 21 5 6 10 19 26 12 2 5 5 11 15 9 3 1 5 8 11 -7 21
12 Gyeongju HNP 22 4 9 9 16 25 10 2 3 5 8 12 12 2 6 4 8 13 -9 21
13 Yangpyeong 22 5 4 13 22 34 12 4 2 6 13 15 10 1 2 7 9 19 -12 19
14 Changwon City 21 5 4 12 16 28 9 2 2 5 8 11 12 3 2 7 8 17 -12 19
15 Yangju Citizen 22 4 6 12 23 36 12 2 6 4 14 18 10 2 0 8 9 18 -13 18
16 Goyang KH 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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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.