Incheon United vs Seoul

K League 1 playoff bidders Seoul travel to Sungui Arena Park to meet out-of-sorts Incheon United in an exciting match-up.

Incheon United stunned Daejeon 3-1 on the road at the weekend to arrest a sub-par five-game winless K League 1 streak (D3, L2) and breathe some air into their stuttering playoff pursuit. Despite recording an underwhelming 25% win ratio across the opening 16 league matches (W4, D6, L6), the hosts start this round only four points below the playoff line. However, Jo Sung-hwan’s side must overcome their form woes on home turf to bolster their playoff chances, having won just once in eight league outings at Sungui Arena Park this season (D5, L2). Connoisseurs of action-packed football will hardly look forward to this contest, considering six of Incheon’s last seven top-flight home games have featured under 2.5 goals, highlighting the certainty of a low-scoring affair.

On the other hand, Seoul slipped to a narrow 1-0 loss at Daegu over the weekend, maintaining a heavily inconsistent league form. None of their last 15 top-flight matches have seen the same result repeat twice in a row, indicating the visitors’ bid to post back-to-back wins over Incheon for the first time since 2020 lacks solid ground. Indeed, before a 2-1 win in their most recent league H2H, Seoul had gone six consecutive top-flight meetings with Incheon without winning (D3, L3), failing to find the net four times in that run. If that’s not enough to make traveling manager An Ik-soo sweat, his men have suffered three defeats on their last four league travels (W1).