Ulsan Citize vs Hwaseong betting preview: Even match expected

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Competition: Korea Republic National League
Competition: Sun 28.August
Match begins: 10:00 (UTC)
Venue: Masan Stadium (6000 seats)

The guesting Hwaseong side are probably front runners at Ulsan Citize, as the away team hold a 13 point supremacy from their 23 league matches this season.

Insights:
  • Ulsan Citize have the fewest points (9) at home in National League
  • Hwaseong have the fewest conceded goals (8) away in National League

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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Ulsan Citize form and stats

Ulsan Citize's struggle is real here at Masan Stadium with only 9 points collected from 11 National League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 2-3-6.

Stress levels are on the rise for Ulsan Citize's attacking players as they have now played 180 minutes without scoring in a league game. Moon-Seong was their last goal scorer.

The club members are hoping that Citize will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 0-2 away loss in the game against Gyeongju HNP (placed 3rd).

Ahead of that match, Ulsan Citize lost 0-1 at home to Cheongju.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Ulsan Citize have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 12 matches with the results: Won 3, drawn 7 and lost 2.

It should be considered that a peek at the 12 most recent league matches shows that 9 of them qualified as a both teams to score: NO result (only one or none of the sides scored).

Ulsan Citize aren't scoring a lot here at Masan Stadium in the league, with only 9 goals from 11 games. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 17 goals have been conceded.

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Hwaseong form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team, who have the fewest conceded goals (8) away in National League, on their National League travels is 5 wins, 4 draws and 1 defeat.

This fixture can not go any worse than the last one, the home loss versus Pocheon with 1-2 on the scoreboard.

Preceding that game was the away victory against Dangjin Citizen with the score of 3-1.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 6 similar matches played by Hwaseong in our archives, and the results are: 1 win for Hwaseong, 5 draws and 0 defeats.

Hwaseong have scored 14 goals on their travels this season, from 10 away games in the league. It's not easy to score on Hwaseong as they have only conceded 8 goals from these away games. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

Hwaseong - Citize 0-0 was the product when this pair of squads last met, some time ago this season. Previous three meetings between these contenders: Ulsan Citize won zero, Hwaseong were winners in one and we saw two draws. zero games with more than 2,5 goals, three matches with less than 2,5 goals.

Top Goalscorers

Ulsan CitizeJ. Koo
J. Koo
7 goals
HwaseongJ. Jeong
J. Jeong
7 goals
Ulsan CitizeY. Cho
Y. Cho
5 goals

Ulsan Citize missing players

Hwaseong missing players

Ulsan Citize Hwaseong
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
23 11 2 Played P 4 10 23
6 2 0 Won W 4 5 10
7 3 0 Drew D 0 4 8
10 6 2 Lost L 0 1 5
24 9 1 Scored S 8 14 29
30 17 4 Conceded C 1 8 22
78% 82% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 80% 87%
65% 64% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 60% 65%
48% 45% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 50% 48%
17% 18% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 30% 22%
13% 18% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
48% 45% 50% BTTS BTTS 25% 30% 48%
26% 18% 0% Clean Sheets C S 75% 60% 43%
48% 55% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 30% 22%
 
4 4.1 2.5 Corners for (avg) C F 3.7 4 4
3.7 3.9 3.5 Corners against (avg) C A 4 5.1 4.1
1.2 1.3 0.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.7 1.7 1.7
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
8.5 7.4 7 Shots (avg) S ( 8.3 8 7.2
2.8 2.2 2.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.3 3.6 3.2
35% 32% 20% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 34% 37%
 
10.2 8.8 6 Shots against (avg) S A 5.7 7.6 7.2
3.6 3 2.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 1.3 3 3.1
Key stats in National League this season:
  • Hwaseong have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Hwaseong have the fewest conceded goals (8) away in National League
  • Hwaseong have the most clean sheets (6) away in National League
  • Ulsan Citize have the fewest points (9) at home 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 Siheung Citizen 23 13 4 6 31 21 11 8 2 1 21 9 12 5 2 5 10 12 10 43
2 Paju Citizen 23 11 10 2 30 20 11 7 2 2 15 10 12 4 8 0 15 10 10 43
3 Gyeongju HNP 24 12 5 7 37 22 11 5 3 3 16 8 13 7 2 4 21 14 15 41
4 Changwon City 24 12 5 7 29 19 13 7 3 3 16 7 11 5 2 4 13 12 10 41
5 Hwaseong 23 10 8 5 29 22 13 5 4 4 15 14 10 5 4 1 14 8 7 38
6 Gimhae City 23 10 5 8 27 21 12 6 3 3 16 10 11 4 2 5 11 11 6 35
7 Pocheon 23 9 6 8 32 27 12 5 5 2 14 9 11 4 1 6 18 18 5 33
8 Yangju Citizen 23 10 2 11 24 23 11 5 2 4 15 12 12 5 0 7 9 11 1 32
9 Busan Transportation 24 6 13 5 28 25 13 4 6 3 17 15 11 2 7 2 11 10 3 31
10 Gangneung City 24 7 8 9 31 36 11 4 2 5 12 17 13 3 6 4 19 19 -5 29
11 Cheonan City 24 6 10 8 23 23 12 2 5 5 12 12 12 4 5 3 11 11 0 28
12 Daejeon Korail 23 8 4 11 22 30 12 5 2 5 12 15 11 3 2 6 10 15 -8 28
13 Cheongju 23 7 7 9 18 31 11 5 2 4 12 13 12 2 5 5 6 18 -13 28
14 Ulsan Citize 23 6 7 10 24 30 11 2 3 6 9 17 12 4 4 4 15 13 -6 25
15 Mokpo City 23 6 4 13 18 31 11 3 3 5 9 10 12 3 1 8 9 21 -13 22
16 Dangjin Citizen 24 2 6 16 22 44 12 2 5 5 14 22 12 0 1 11 8 22 -22 12

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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.