National League match preview: Yangju Citizen believed to be the weaker party when Changwon City pays a visit

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Competition: Korea Republic National League
Competition: Sat 04.September
Match begins: 05:00 (UTC)
Venue: Yangju Godeok Stadium (5000 seats)

Yangju Citizen have some points to catch up on from their 14th position, and they have a chance vs Changwon City. Read more!

Insights:
  • Yangju Citizen have the fewest scored goals (10) in National League
  • Changwon City have the most dropped points from leading position (14) in National League

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

1 - 0 - 0 with 5-0. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for Changwon City when playing on artifical turf like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. Changwon City play their home games on grass so that's why we provide these numbers.

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Yangju Citizen form and stats

Yangju Citizen's struggle is real here at Yangju Godeok Stadium with only 6 points collected from 9 National League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-3-5. All in all it has been a very rough period for Citizen who hasn’t won a league-game in their last twelve attempts. Their previous win was against Changwon City, 125 days ago.

The Citizen crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-1 to Ulsan Citize here at Yangju Godeok Stadium in a National League match. The defeat against Ulsan Citize was especially painful as the deciding goal against was scored three minutes into stoppage time (by Noh Sang-Min).

Prior to that, an away loss at Ulsan in the FA Cup.

Citizen aren't scoring a lot here at Yangju Godeok Stadium in the league, with only 6 goals from 9 games. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Citizen defense is not exactly impregnable. 17 goals conceded from 9 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Changwon City form and stats

The visitors are W3-D5-L2 on the road this term. That's in the National League.

The manager K. Choi was unhappy after their last game, a National League match played at their home ground Changwon Football Center. Changwon suffered a 0-1 loss to Cheongju (placed 12th).

Preceding that game was the away victory against Gangneung City with the score of 2-0.

The visiting Changwon have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 10 goals from 10 games. 10 goals have been conceded by Changwon in these games.

Head 2 Head

The teams have met each other already this season, with the result Changwon City - Citizen 0-1 logged in the official records. Data for the previous three meetings between these two teams are: one win for Citizen, zero draws and two wins for Changwon City. Over 2,5 goals: two times; under 2,5 goals: one game.

Top Goalscorers

Yangju CitizenJ. Hwang
J. Hwang
4 goals
Changwon CityD. Yang
D. Yang
4 goals
Changwon CityT. Shin
T. Shin
3 goals

Yangju Citizen missing players

Changwon City missing players

Yangju Citizen Changwon City
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
18 9 4 Played P 4 10 19
3 1 1 Won W 1 3 7
5 3 2 Drew D 2 5 6
10 5 1 Lost L 1 2 6
10 6 6 Scored S 3 10 20
28 17 5 Conceded C 4 10 19
83% 89% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 75% 90% 95%
72% 78% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 80% 63%
33% 44% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 20% 26%
11% 22% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 10% 16%
6% 11% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 5%
22% 44% 100% BTTS BTTS 25% 40% 42%
28% 11% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 40% 37%
67% 56% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 30% 26%
 
3.4 3 1.8 Corners for (avg) C F 5.5 4.7 4.6
4.2 4 3 Corners against (avg) C A 3.8 3.8 3.9
1.5 1.5 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.2 1.6 1.9
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
5.5 6.4 3.8 Shots (avg) S ( 5.5 7.3 8.4
1.9 2.2 1.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.8 2.8 2.9
28% 28% 83% Goal Efficiency G E 43% 36% 37%
Key stats in National League this season:
  • Changwon City have the most dropped points from leading position (14) in National League
  • Yangju Citizen have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Yangju Citizen have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Yangju Citizen have the fewest points (6) at home in National League
  • Yangju Citizen have the fewest points from losing position (0) in National League
  • Yangju Citizen have the fewest scored goals (10) in National League
  • Yangju Citizen have the fewest scored goals in the first half (3) in National League
  • Yangju Citizen have the fewest scored goals in the second half (6) in National League
  • Yangju Citizen have the the worst goal difference (-11) at home in National League
  • Yangju Citizen have the the worst goal difference (-18) 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 Cheonan City 20 11 5 4 35 15 11 6 2 3 15 8 9 5 3 1 20 7 20 38
2 Gimpo 19 10 6 3 23 13 10 5 3 2 15 8 9 5 3 1 8 5 10 36
3 Mokpo City 20 9 7 4 18 13 10 4 6 0 10 5 10 5 1 4 8 8 5 34
4 Ulsan Citize 20 9 5 6 24 14 10 6 2 2 15 4 10 3 3 4 9 10 10 32
5 Gyeongju HNP 20 9 4 7 29 24 11 5 3 3 16 13 9 4 1 4 13 11 5 31
6 Gimhae City 20 8 6 6 25 25 10 4 3 3 14 14 10 4 3 3 11 11 0 30
7 Busan Transportation 19 7 8 4 20 20 9 3 6 0 11 7 10 4 2 4 9 13 0 29
8 Changwon City 19 7 6 6 20 19 9 4 1 4 10 9 10 3 5 2 10 10 1 27
9 Paju Citizen 20 6 8 6 24 26 10 3 3 4 10 12 10 3 5 2 14 14 -2 26
10 Daejeon Korail 20 5 10 5 23 20 10 4 4 2 12 6 10 1 6 3 11 14 3 25
11 Hwaseong 19 6 7 6 19 20 10 5 1 4 8 9 9 1 6 2 11 11 -1 25
12 Cheongju 19 5 5 9 24 29 9 2 2 5 12 18 10 3 3 4 12 11 -5 20
13 Pyeongtaek Citizen 20 3 5 12 14 28 10 2 4 4 6 12 10 1 1 8 8 16 -14 14
14 Yangju Citizen 18 3 5 10 10 28 9 1 3 5 6 17 9 2 2 5 4 11 -18 14
15 Gangneung City 19 2 5 12 13 27 8 2 3 3 9 10 11 0 2 9 4 17 -14 11

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.