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Gwangju FC vs Seongnam Prediction & Betting tips
The kick-off for the new season sounds in South Korea. On the first day of the K-League there will be a duel between Gwangju and Seongnam, a forecast for this game is provided in the next lines!
In the K-League, which was introduced in 1983, there are now twelve teams playing against each other three times in the basic round before the league is divided into two groups of six and a championship and relegation round is completed with a further five games.
However, due to the crisis, the mode was adjusted and the basic round therefore only contains 22 games (two duels against each other instead of three). The two teams in this article are teams that are likely to establish themselves in the lower half of the table.
Seongnam made a comeback in the South Korean football upper house in 2019, this year Gwangju is assigned this role after two years of abstinence. The ascent euphoria is a bit gone, but a look at the betting base odds comparison between Gwangju and Seongnam shows slightly lower odds for the home win. The game starts on Saturday at 11 p.m. Central European Time.
Gwangju:
Professional football in the 1.4 million city of Gwangju has existed since 2003, when the club was founded as a military team. After seven largely unsuccessful years, the franchise was no longer extended and the military left the city. This gave rise to the birth of the club in its current form, which in the last decade has earned its name as an “elevator team”.
The 2017 calendar year brought several disappointments for the club, which had to go back to second place with just six wins in 38 games. As a result, the club management made a cut in management politics and no stone was left unturned. Gwangju started with a completely reformed team and was able to reach fifth place in the 2nd division.
In the second year after the large-scale change, the team presented itself extremely firmly and played an outstanding season. In 36 games, Gwangju only suffered five defeats and very confidently fixed the return to the South Korean football upper house.
The bookmakers’ assessment that Gwangju is slightly favored against Seongnam according to current odds is mainly supported by the fact that the promoted player acted outstandingly at home in 2019. Gwangju lost only one game at home in the World Cup stadium throughout the calendar year.
Gwangju just missed a perfect home game year 2019, because only in the last game did the promoted player go bankrupt. However, this is put into perspective by the fact that Gwangju had previously fixed the ascent and the drop in pressure and the festivities caused a decrease in concentration.
Seongnam:
The Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors have been the big dominator in South Korean football in recent years. A role that Seongnam FC also had a few years ago. The team from the city of millions, in close proximity to the capital Seoul, was the best team in South Korea in the 90s and early 21st century. During this time, the club won seven championships and has had to share the title of “record champion” with the team from Jeonbuk since last year.
The fact that the club is now far from such successes started in 2016. The team played a decent season for a long time before the club slipped into the crisis in the last eight rounds of the basic round and missed the champions play-off. In the relegation round the turnaround was not successful and the descent actually had to be coped with.
In the first year the direct re-promotion was missed, but a year later this mission turned out to be successful and last year the record champion was again in the upper house.
Back in the top division in the country, head coach Ki-Il Nam’s team had major problems in the offensive game. A mere 25 goals were scored in the 33 round game. Despite this small number of goals, Seongnam celebrated ten wins of the season. With 38 points, Seongnam took ninth place in the basic round and already had a comfortable lead over the relegation and relegation place.
Relatively few goals were not only scored by Seongnam, games in general with the promoted team were relatively poor in goals. With an average of only 1.84 hits per game, the team had by far the lowest value of all K-League teams. At the start of the new season, a forecast for a game with few goals is absolutely obvious between Gwangju and Seongnam.
Gwangju FC vs Seongnam head to head matches
13.10.18 KL2 Seongnam Gwangju FC 2 : 2
28.07.18 KL2 Gwangju FC Seongnam 3 : 1
12.05.18 KL2 Gwangju FC Seongnam 1 : 3
10.03.18 KL2 Seongnam Gwangju FC 0 : 0
29.10.16 KL1 Gwangju FC Seongnam 0 : 0