Paju Citizen vs Yangju Citizen preview: Guests face a gruelling 90 minutes at Paju Public Stadium

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Competition: Korea Republic National League
Competition: Sat 23.April
Match begins: 06:00 (UTC)
Venue: Paju Public Stadium (22000 seats)

Paju Citizen should be expected winners of this home match vs Yangju Citizen, if the league positions are thought to provide some clues. Or could we be eyeing a possible shock?

Insights:
  • Paju Citizen have the most scored goals in the first half (6) in National League
  • Yangju Citizen have the fewest scored goals in the second half (2) in National League

This pitch has grass, unlike Yangju Citizen's home ground. The former 26 games by the away team on grass have resulted in 5 wins, 4 draws and 17 losses.

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

Paju Citizen have secured 6 points from their first three home games in the National League. A decent catch, still with room for improvement.

The Paju Citizen manager Lee and his crew return home after a 0-0 draw away versus Busan Transportation (placed 10th).

Ahead of that match, Paju Citizen won a home game hosting Gangneung City (2-1).

A decent goal production from Citizen in their home games so far, with 5 goals from 3 league matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Paju Citizen defense is not exactly impregnable. 5 goals conceded from 3 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Yangju Citizen form and stats

2 wins, 0 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of Yangju Citizen playing as the away team in the National League this season.

The Yangju Citizen goalkeeper is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 257 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.

Citizen are travelling after their nice 2-0 home win in the game against Gangneung City (placed 7th).

Before that one, a nice away victory 1-0 at Ulsan Citize.

The visitors have scored 4 goals from 5 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's five Paju Citizen victories, two draws and three Yangju Citizen wins. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Paju CitizenD. Kim
D. Kim
4 goals
Paju CitizenE. An
E. An
2 goals
Paju CitizenPark Jong-Seong
Park Jong-Seong
1 goals

Paju Citizen missing players

Yangju Citizen missing players

Paju Citizen Yangju Citizen
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
8 3 1 Played P 2 5 8
4 2 1 Won W 1 2 3
3 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
1 1 0 Lost L 1 3 5
9 5 2 Scored S 2 4 6
7 5 1 Conceded C 2 5 7
75% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
62% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 40% 38%
50% 100% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 40% 25%
12% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
62% 100% 100% BTTS BTTS 50% 40% 25%
38% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 40% 38%
25% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 20% 38%
 
6.5 4.5 0 Corners for (avg) C F 3 4.8 5
3.3 2.5 0 Corners against (avg) C A 7 7 6.1
2 3 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 3.5 2.6
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
10.3 14 0 Shots (avg) S ( 6.5 7.2 10.7
2.8 4.5 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.5 2.5 3.6
41% 33% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 40% 24%
 
7.7 6.5 0 Shots against (avg) S A 10.5 11 13
3.7 3.5 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 4 5.1
Key stats in National League this season:
  • All of Paju Citizen's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
  • Paju Citizen have the most scored goals in the first half (6) in National League
  • Paju Citizen have won significantly less corners at home than away.
  • Yangju Citizen have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Yangju Citizen have the fewest scored goals in the second half (2) in National League
  • Yangju Citizen 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 Changwon City 8 5 1 2 12 4 4 3 0 1 8 1 4 2 1 1 4 3 8 16
2 Siheung Citizen 8 5 1 2 9 6 5 4 1 0 8 2 3 1 0 2 1 4 3 16
3 Paju Citizen 8 4 3 1 9 7 3 2 0 1 5 5 5 2 3 0 4 2 2 15
4 Gyeongju HNP 8 4 2 2 12 7 5 2 2 1 6 4 3 2 0 1 6 3 5 14
5 Ulsan Citize 8 4 1 3 11 9 4 2 1 1 4 3 4 2 0 2 7 6 2 13
6 Daejeon Korail 8 4 1 3 8 9 3 2 1 0 3 1 5 2 0 3 5 8 -1 13
7 Gangneung City 8 3 3 2 8 8 4 3 1 0 5 2 4 0 2 2 3 6 0 12
8 Cheongju 7 3 2 2 8 7 4 2 0 2 6 6 3 1 2 0 2 1 1 11
9 Hwaseong 7 3 1 3 9 10 5 2 0 3 6 8 2 1 1 0 3 2 -1 10
10 Busan Transportation 8 2 3 3 8 8 6 1 2 3 6 8 2 1 1 0 2 0 0 9
11 Yangju Citizen 8 3 0 5 6 7 3 1 0 2 2 2 5 2 0 3 4 5 -1 9
12 Mokpo City 8 2 2 4 5 11 3 0 2 1 0 1 5 2 0 3 5 10 -6 8
13 Cheonan City 7 1 4 2 5 6 3 0 1 2 2 4 4 1 3 0 3 2 -1 7
14 Pocheon 8 2 1 5 8 10 4 2 1 1 5 3 4 0 0 4 3 7 -2 7
15 Gimhae City 7 2 1 4 5 8 2 0 1 1 1 2 5 2 0 3 4 6 -3 7
16 Dangjin Citizen 8 1 2 5 7 13 4 1 1 2 4 7 4 0 1 3 3 6 -6 5

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.