Pohang Steelers vs Daejeon Citizen — K League 1 2026
Match Prediction
Statistical Prediction
Based on goals from last 68+ matches
Pohang Steelers39%
Daejeon Citizen35%✓ Correct in 50 of 100 matches — 5 more than always backing the home side
The model picks a winner (home or away) for each finished match using only pre-kickoff data, then checks it against the real result: 50.2% correct across 585,598 matches, vs 44.5% for always backing the home side.
Home picks 50.5% correct · Away picks 49.3% correct
Football matches only. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Expected goals in this match
What is xG?
Every shot is scored 0–1 by how likely it is to be a goal from that spot — a chance in the middle of the box ≈ 0.4, a long shot from a tight angle ≈ 0.03, a penalty ≈ 0.76. Add them up over a match and that is the xG.
The scoreline can lie: you can win 1-0 on a fluke while creating half the chances. xG shows who was really closer to scoring — and over a season it predicts results better than goals alone.
Both teams create about equally
Season form · 139 home / 68 away
creates per match
allows per match
finishing
Total goals
- Over51
- Under49
Close call
Both teams score
- Yes55
- No45
Both teams likely to score
Score probability
Probability of each scoreline, %
Pohang Steelers ↓
Most likely 1–1 (12%) · grid covers 98% of scorelines
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Total goals
Double chance
Winning margin
Team goals
Draw no bet
Combos
Model probabilities, not odds. For information only.
How is this calculated?
Every number below comes from this match — nothing is made up.
Recent form of each side
Pohang Steelers at home — creates 1.31, concedes 1.11 · 139 matches
Daejeon Citizen away — creates 1.50, concedes 1.46 · 68 matches
⚑ Home and away form are counted separately — the home-field edge is already baked into these numbers.
Expected goals for this match
Pohang Steelers attack 1.31 + Daejeon Citizen defence 1.46 → ÷2 → 1.39
Daejeon Citizen attack 1.50 + Pohang Steelers defence 1.11 → ÷2 → 1.31
Each side's attack is blended with the other's defence, then averaged.
Chance of every scoreline
From those two numbers a Poisson distribution gives the probability of each exact score — the grid shown above.
The answer to "why 39%?"
Pohang Steelers at 39% is simply the biggest of the three — that is the pick.
What the model can't see
It reads only the stats of recent matches. It knows nothing about:
- injuries & suspensions
- the matchday lineup
- motivation — cup, relegation, a title race
- weather & pitch condition
- in-game coaching decisions
So 39% does not mean "Pohang Steelers will win" — it means "on the available stats, this is the most likely result."
Statistical model based on expected goals (xG). For informational purposes only.
Player of the match
Match Events
Pohang Steelers substitutes
Head to Head
5 previous meetings
If points are equal: 1. Goal difference 2. Goals scored 3. Head-to-head
P = Played · W = Won · D = Drawn · L = Lost · GF = Goals for · GA = Goals against · GD = Goal difference · Pts = Points
Possession
Shots
Pass accuracy
Statistics
Pohang Steelers host Daejeon Citizen on Saturday, 4 April 2026 at 07:30. The match is part of the K League 1 2026/2027 season.
K League 1: Pohang Steelers 1–0 Daejeon Citizen
Pohang Steelers beat Daejeon Citizen 1-0 in K League 1 on April 4, 2026.
Goals: Lee Ho-Jae (29' pen).
Pohang Steelers controlled possession (61%) and registered 14 shots to 9.
The match was played at Pohang Steel Yard in Pohang.