Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Sanfrecce Hiroshima & FC Tokushima face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Emperor Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
These are hustling days for the host team, as they had a match only three days ago in the J-League. Thankfully the previous game, versus Kyoto Sanga, was also a home game here at Fukuyama Takegahana Stadium. The away team is better rested.
Sanfrecce Hiroshima form and stats
Sanfrecce Hiroshima participated in Emperor Cup the last season, where they reached the final.Sanfrecce Hiroshima are steadily winning J-League games and points here at Fukuyama Takegahana Stadium. 5 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats is the summary from 8 games.
Sanfrecce's last game was hosting Kyoto Sanga and winning 3-1. The striker Kawamura outdid all teammates in that fixture and received a match rating of 8.42 out of 10. Kawamura scored one goal and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.
Heartbreak before that as Sanfrecce Hiroshima lost 1-2 at Urawa Reds's place.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Sanfrecce as they are travelling to their away game against Kawasaki Frontale in the J-League. That match is four days after this one.
Sanfrecce Hiroshima has scored 11 league goals at home this season, in 8 matches. Sanfrecce are not conceding a lot of goals here at Fukuyama Takegahana Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 6 from 8 matches.
FC Tokushima form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated SRC Hiroshima in order to reach 2nd round of Emperor Cup. They also participated in Emperor Cup last season. This ended in the 1st round.Two trips in a row for FC Tokushima, whose manager Sunomata could celebrate last time after the win against Nankoku.
Ahead of that, the Emperor Cup victory away at SRC Hiroshima.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  D. da Silva Vieira 6 goals | Y. Chajima 2 goals |  S. Higashi 2 goals |
Sanfrecce Hiroshima missing players
FC Tokushima missing players
| Sanfrecce Hiroshima | FC Tokushima | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 7 | Won | W | 8 | 19 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 2 | ||
| 9 | 5 | Lost | L | 4 | 4 | ||
| 38 | 19 | Scored | S | 38 | 103 | ||
| 26 | 14 | Conceded | C | 18 | 24 | ||
| 96% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 72% | 69% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 64% | 69% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 93% | 96% | ||
| 20% | 23% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 68% | ||
| 4% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 21% | 48% | ||
| 60% | 69% | BTTS | BTTS | 79% | 56% | ||
| 32% | 31% | Clean Sheets | C S | 21% | 44% | ||
| 12% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | ||
| 6.6 | 6.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.5 | 2.1 | ||
| 3.2 | 2.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.3 | 2 | ||
| 1.2 | 1.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 0.6 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 16.4 | 15.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5.2 | 3.1 | ||
| 6.3 | 6.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.7 | 1.6 | ||
| 25% | 23% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 62% | 219% | ||
| 8.2 | 7.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.3 | 5 | ||
| 3.3 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.2 | 1.9 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Vissel Kobe | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 32 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 21 | 33 |
| 2 | Yokohama F. Marinos | 16 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 33 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 13 | 16 | 33 |
| 3 | Nagoya Grampus | 16 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 23 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 32 |
| 4 | Sanfrecce Hiroshima | 16 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 22 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 29 |
| 5 | Urawa Reds | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 20 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 28 |
| 6 | Cerezo Osaka | 16 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 21 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 26 |
| 7 | Consadole Sapporo | 16 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 37 | 31 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 21 | 17 | 6 | 25 |
| 8 | Kashima Antlers | 16 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 22 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 25 |
| 9 | Sagan Tosu | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 20 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 8 | -2 | 22 |
| 10 | Kawasaki Frontale | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 19 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 1 | 21 |
| 11 | Avispa Fukuoka | 16 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 12 | -4 | 20 |
| 12 | Tokyo | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 21 | 25 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 15 | -4 | 19 |
| 13 | Albirex Niigata | 16 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 25 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 12 | -7 | 17 |
| 14 | Kyoto Sanga | 16 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 17 | 27 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 14 | -10 | 13 |
| 15 | Gamba Osaka | 16 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 18 | 32 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 22 | -14 | 13 |
| 16 | Shonan Bellmare | 15 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 23 | 27 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 11 | -4 | 12 |
| 17 | Kashiwa Reysol | 16 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 13 | 24 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 17 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 7 | -11 | 12 |
| 18 | Yokohama | 16 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 35 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 19 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 16 | -22 | 12 |
