Albirex Niigata perform at a high level so far being 1st in the table. Matsumoto Yamaga can look both up and down from their 10th position.
- Albirex Niigata have the most scored goals (31) in J2-League
- Matsumoto Yamaga have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
It's no vacation for neither Albirex nor Matsumoto Yamaga 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.
Albirex Niigata form and stats
The story so far in the J2-League for Albirex Niigata, who have the most scored goals (31) in J2-League, at their home stadium (Denka Big Swan Stadium) is 5 wins, 0 draws and 0 defeats.
Albirex enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Omiya Ardija's place. The match ended 3-2 with Y. Hoshi, S. Homma and F. Hayakawa scoring. Before that game, the 2-0 home victory against JEF United.
Manager Albert Puig felt very clever after Y. Hoshi scored the winning goal against Omiya Ardija, having brought on that player as a substitute in the 61st minute.
The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Albirex handle that role? We have found 20 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are twelve wins, five draws and three defeats.
Albirex are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Denka Big Swan Stadium in their league games, having scored an impressive 14 goals in 5 matches. Albirex have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 1 goal.
Matsumoto Yamaga form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Matsumoto Yamaga so far with only 5 points returning home. The records show 1-2-3 (win-draw-lose).
Matsumoto Yamaga had fun at their own home (Denka Big Swan Stadium) last time out, beating Sagamihara 2-1. T. Sakano scored. Prior to that result Matsumoto won their away game at Giravanz Kitakyushu. The scoreline was 2-1.
T. Sakano came off the bench to score the winning goal in the match against Sagamihara last time out, making the manager K. Shibata feel like a tactical genius.
Matsumoto Yamaga are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is four wins, three draws and six defeats. From a total of 13 matches.
The visitors have scored 4 goals from 6 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Matsumoto have conceded 11 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last seven matches): Albirex Niigata four wins, one draw and Matsumoto Yamaga two victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  Y. Takagi 6 goals |  K. Suzuki 6 goals | S. Homma 4 goals |
Albirex Niigata missing players
Matsumoto Yamaga missing players
| Albirex Niigata | Matsumoto Yamaga | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 5 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 6 | 12 |
| 10 | 5 | 3 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 31 | 14 | 10 | Scored | S | 1 | 4 | 14 |
| 9 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 7 | 11 | 18 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 67% | 67% | 83% |
| 83% | 60% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 67% | 67% |
| 58% | 40% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 67% | 58% |
| 50% | 40% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 33% | 33% |
| 25% | 20% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 17% | 17% |
| 50% | 20% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 50% | 58% |
| 50% | 80% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 33% | 25% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 67% | 50% | 33% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.2 | 0.9 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8.9 | 9.2 | 10.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.7 | 8.8 | 8.5 |
| 4.5 | 5 | 5.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.7 | 3.2 | 3.5 |
| 57% | 56% | 59% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 12% | 21% | 28% |
- Albirex Niigata have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Albirex Niigata have scored in all their matches so far.
- Albirex Niigata have scored more than double the goals of Matsumoto Yamaga.
- Albirex Niigata have the most scored goals (31) in J2-League
- Albirex Niigata have the most scored goals in the first half (12) in J2-League
- Albirex Niigata have the most scored goals in the second half (19) in J2-League
- Albirex Niigata have the the best goal difference (+13) at home in J2-League
- Albirex Niigata have the the best goal difference (+22) in J2-League
- Albirex Niigata have won all their matches at home so far.
- Albirex Niigata haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Matsumoto Yamaga have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Matsumoto Yamaga have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Albirex Niigata | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 31 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 8 | 22 | 32 |
| 2 | Ryukyu | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 13 | 29 |
| 3 | Kyoto Sanga | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 23 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 13 | 26 |
| 4 | Júbilo Iwata | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 22 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 22 |
| 5 | Machida Zelvia | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 20 |
| 6 | Ventforet Kofu | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 17 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 19 |
| 7 | Mito Hollyhock | 12 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 18 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 18 |
| 8 | Blaublitz Akita | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 18 |
| 9 | Zweigen Kanazawa | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 17 |
| 10 | Matsumoto Yamaga | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 | -4 | 16 |
| 11 | Fagiano Okayama | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 15 |
| 12 | JEF United | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | -3 | 15 |
| 13 | Tokyo Verdy | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 24 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 12 | -7 | 15 |
| 14 | Montedio Yamagata | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 3 | -2 | 14 |
| 15 | V-Varen Nagasaki | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 20 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 11 | -7 | 14 |
| 16 | Tochigi | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | -3 | 13 |
| 17 | Renofa Yamaguchi | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | -4 | 12 |
| 18 | Giravanz Kitakyushu | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 19 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 10 | -8 | 11 |
| 19 | Ehime | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -6 | 10 |
| 20 | Sagamihara | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -9 | 10 |
| 21 | ThespaKusatsu Gunma | 12 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | -9 | 10 |
| 22 | Omiya Ardija | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 7 | -3 | 9 |