Best Defensive midfielders by Season Rating in K League 1
The best defensive midfielders in K League 1, ranked on Field Insider.
At a glance
Kang Sang-Yoon of Jeonbuk Motors is the standout for raw talent across midfielders in K League 1, with a Field Insider Rating of 47.1, and Ko Seung-Beom has been the form player this season, grading 22.3, and Reis leads the scoring with 6 goals.
The numbers a scout watches are the year-on-year jumps: Lee Soon-Min has improved his Season rating most, up +13.7 on last season, while Lee Jin-Hyun's scouting Rating has risen fastest, +2.6 over the same span. Those are the players whose trajectory is bending upward fastest.
By our market-value index, Jeon Byung-Kwan of Jeonbuk Motors is the most valuable name in this group at 11.1.
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