J-League fixture preview: Avispa Fukuoka against Tokyo

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Competition: Japan J-League
Competition: Tue 03.May
Match begins: 08:00 (UTC)
Venue: Best Denki Stadium

Avispa Fukuoka will want to use their home advantage to give everything they have against today’s opponents. The hosting team are currently 7 points behind Tokyo.

Insights:
  • Avispa Fukuoka have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1) in J-League
  • Tokyo have the fewest conceded goals (5) in J-League

It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Tokyo, who are travelling more than 1000 kilometers to play this game.

It's no vacation for neither Avispa Fukuoka nor Tokyo as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Avispa Fukuoka form and stats

0-4-1 (win-draw-lost) are the J-League numbers at home for Avispa Fukuoka so far this season.

The Avispa Fukuoka goalkeeper Masaaki Murakami is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 180 minutes without conceding a goal in the J-League.

It's back home for Fukuoka, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Kyoto Sanga away with the result 1-0. Yamagishi found the net in that victory. The attacking player Yamagishi won the honour of being "man of the match" for Avispa Fukuoka with a rating of 7.5/10. Yamagishi scored one goal, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Shonan Bellmare are coming to town in four days.

Fukuoka have scored 1 goal here in 5 league matches, a depressing statistic. As for guarding their own goal, Avispa Fukuoka have only let in 2 goals at home.

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Tokyo form and stats

2-1-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Tokyo in their J-League matches away.

Tokyo have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper Jakub Slowik. It's been 438 minutes since they last conceded in J-League.

Tokyo are travelling after their nice 2-0 home win in the match against Gamba Osaka (placed 14th). Midfielder Matsuki was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.43. Matsuki dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 28 successful passes (of 34 total).

The visitors have scored 3 goals from 5 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (3 so far).

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Avispa Fukuoka victories, four draws and two Tokyo wins. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, eight matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

TokyoA. dos Santos da Silva
A. dos Santos da Silva
3 goals
TokyoM. Morishige
M. Morishige
2 goals
TokyoD. Queiroz de Oliveira
D. Queiroz de Oliveira
2 goals

Avispa Fukuoka missing players

Tokyo missing players

Avispa Fukuoka Tokyo
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
10 5 2 Played P 3 5 10
2 0 0 Won W 2 2 5
5 4 1 Drew D 1 1 3
3 1 1 Lost L 0 2 2
5 1 0 Scored S 2 3 10
6 2 1 Conceded C 0 3 5
60% 40% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 80% 70%
20% 20% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 20% 40%
10% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 20% 30%
10% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 10%
10% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
20% 20% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 20% 30%
50% 60% 50% Clean Sheets C S 100% 60% 60%
70% 80% 100% Failed to Score F T 33% 40% 40%
 
4.1 4.8 5.5 Corners for (avg) C F 6.3 6.8 5.8
3.8 3.6 4.5 Corners against (avg) C A 5.7 5.8 5.7
0.9 1 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.4 1.6
0 0 0 Red cards R C 1 2 2
 
7.8 9.8 7 Shots (avg) S ( 6.7 7.6 9
3.3 4 3.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.3 3.8 4.3
15% 5% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 20% 16% 23%
 
6.6 7.8 6 Shots against (avg) S A 10.3 10.4 10.9
2.5 3.2 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 4.4 4.1
Key stats in J-League this season:
  • Avispa Fukuoka have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1) in J-League
  • Avispa Fukuoka have the fewest points from losing position (0) in J-League
  • Avispa Fukuoka have yet to win a game at home.
  • Tokyo have scored at least twice as many goals away as Avispa Fukuoka have scored home.
  • Tokyo have the fewest conceded goals (5) in J-League

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Kashima Antlers 10 7 1 2 14 8 6 3 1 2 5 7 4 4 0 0 9 1 6 22
2 Kawasaki Frontale 10 6 2 2 15 12 5 4 0 1 6 5 5 2 2 1 9 7 3 20
3 Yokohama F. Marinos 10 5 3 2 17 11 6 4 2 0 12 5 4 1 1 2 5 6 6 18
4 Tokyo 10 5 3 2 10 5 5 3 2 0 7 2 5 2 1 2 3 3 5 18
5 Kashiwa Reysol 10 5 1 4 11 10 5 3 0 2 7 7 5 2 1 2 4 3 1 16
6 Sagan Tosu 10 3 6 1 13 6 4 2 2 0 7 1 6 1 4 1 6 5 7 15
7 Kyoto Sanga 10 4 3 3 13 11 6 2 1 3 6 8 4 2 2 0 7 3 2 15
8 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 10 3 5 2 11 10 5 2 2 1 4 3 5 1 3 1 7 7 1 14
9 Cerezo Osaka 10 3 4 3 13 12 5 0 2 3 3 8 5 3 2 0 10 4 1 13
10 Consadole Sapporo 10 2 7 1 9 11 5 1 4 0 4 3 5 1 3 1 5 8 -2 13
11 Avispa Fukuoka 10 2 5 3 5 6 5 0 4 1 1 2 5 2 1 2 4 4 -1 11
12 Júbilo Iwata 10 2 5 3 13 15 5 1 3 1 7 7 5 1 2 2 6 8 -2 11
13 Urawa Reds 10 2 4 4 11 10 5 2 2 1 9 5 5 0 2 3 2 5 1 10
14 Gamba Osaka 10 2 4 4 12 15 5 1 1 3 8 10 5 1 3 1 4 5 -3 10
15 Nagoya Grampus 10 2 4 4 8 11 5 2 2 1 6 5 5 0 2 3 2 6 -3 10
16 Shimizu S-Pulse 10 1 6 3 9 13 5 0 4 1 5 7 5 1 2 2 4 6 -4 9
17 Shonan Bellmare 10 1 3 6 5 12 4 0 2 2 1 4 6 1 1 4 4 8 -7 6
18 Vissel Kobe 10 0 4 6 5 16 4 0 1 3 1 6 6 0 3 3 4 10 -11 4