Soccer match preview: Home crowd has high hopes when Albirex Niigata welcomes Mito Hollyhock

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Competition: Japan J2-League
Competition: Sat 26.June
Match begins: 09:00 (UTC)
Venue: Denka Big Swan Stadium (41684 seats)

3rd position in the J2-League table for Albirex Niigata so far, a good performance. The home supporters hope for more joy as 10th-placed Mito Hollyhock visits Denka Big Swan Stadium.

Insights:
  • Albirex Niigata have the most scored goals (38) in J2-League
  • Mito Hollyhock have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!

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Albirex Niigata form and stats

Albirex Niigata, who have the most scored goals (38) in J2-League, are steadily winning J2-League games and points here at Denka Big Swan Stadium. 6 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats is the summary from 9 games.

A good away victory last time out for Albirex Niigata, who won 2-0 against Blaublitz Akita (placed 14th).

Preceding that match was a defeat to Fagiano Okayama (0-1).

The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Albirex's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played three games, won one match, drawn one and lost one.

A decent goal production from Albirex Niigata in their home games so far, with 16 goals from 9 league matches. Albirex have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 4 goals. It's worth mentioning that 3 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Mito Hollyhock form and stats

4 wins, 0 draws and 5 losses. That’s the product of Mito Hollyhock playing as the away team in the J2-League this season.

Home advantage was not enough for Hollyhock in their previous game, as they lost their J2-League-match, hosting Montedio Yamagata, 0-1.

Before that, Mito Hollyhock secured a home win against Sagamihara with the score 2-0.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Hollyhock when being an outsider away as they are today, we find two matches with the visitors losing zero times, drawing zero and winning two games.

Mito Hollyhock has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 16 goals from 9 games. 13 goals have been conceded by Hollyhock in these games.

Head 2 Head

As for the last six games between these two teams, there's four Albirex victories, two draws and zero Mito Hollyhock wins. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Albirex NiigataY. Takagi
Y. Takagi
7 goals
Albirex NiigataK. Taniguchi
K. Taniguchi
6 goals
Mito HollyhockM. Nakayama
M. Nakayama
6 goals

Albirex Niigata missing players

Mito Hollyhock missing players

Albirex Niigata Mito Hollyhock
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
19 9 4 Played P 2 9 19
12 6 3 Won W 0 4 8
4 1 0 Drew D 0 0 1
3 2 1 Lost L 2 5 10
38 16 10 Scored S 2 16 27
16 4 1 Conceded C 4 13 21
95% 89% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
74% 44% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 78% 68%
53% 33% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 78% 53%
37% 22% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 33% 16%
16% 11% 25% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 33% 16%
47% 22% 0% BTTS BTTS 50% 67% 42%
42% 56% 75% Clean Sheets C S 0% 11% 26%
16% 33% 25% Failed to Score F T 50% 22% 32%
 
4.7 5.8 6.5 Corners for (avg) C F 6.5 5.2 5.3
3.6 3.4 2.8 Corners against (avg) C A 10 5.4 4.9
0.5 0.4 0.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.5 0.9 1.1
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
8.7 8.8 9.5 Shots (avg) S ( 8 11.3 9.3
4.2 4.4 4.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.5 4.4 3.7
48% 40% 53% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 40% 39%
Key stats in J2-League this season:
  • Albirex Niigata have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Albirex Niigata have the fewest conceded goals (4) at home in J2-League
  • Albirex Niigata have the most scored goals (38) in J2-League
  • Albirex Niigata have the most scored goals in the second half (23) in J2-League
  • Albirex Niigata have the the best goal difference (+12) at home in J2-League
  • Albirex Niigata have the the best goal difference (+22) in J2-League
  • Albirex Niigata have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Mito Hollyhock have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Mito Hollyhock haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Kyoto Sanga 19 12 5 2 30 13 9 5 3 1 18 10 10 7 2 1 12 3 17 41
2 Júbilo Iwata 19 13 2 4 31 19 10 8 0 2 19 12 9 5 2 2 12 7 12 41
3 Albirex Niigata 19 12 4 3 38 16 9 6 1 2 16 4 10 6 3 1 22 12 22 40
4 Ryūkyū 19 11 4 4 30 18 10 7 2 1 16 6 9 4 2 3 14 12 12 37
5 V-Varen Nagasaki 19 10 3 6 24 22 9 4 3 2 13 11 10 6 0 4 11 11 2 33
6 Ventforet Kofu 19 8 7 4 25 17 9 5 3 1 14 7 10 3 4 3 11 10 8 31
7 Machida Zelvia 19 9 4 6 26 19 9 2 2 5 8 11 10 7 2 1 18 8 7 31
8 Montedio Yamagata 19 8 6 5 20 15 9 4 1 4 10 10 10 4 5 1 10 5 5 30
9 Tokyo Verdy 19 9 3 7 26 29 11 6 1 4 19 15 8 3 2 3 7 14 -3 30
10 Mito Hollyhock 19 8 1 10 27 21 10 4 1 5 11 8 9 4 0 5 16 13 6 25
11 Fagiano Okayama 19 7 4 8 18 16 9 2 1 6 6 8 10 5 3 2 12 8 2 25
12 Zweigen Kanazawa 19 7 4 8 21 21 10 3 3 4 11 12 9 4 1 4 10 9 0 25
13 JEF United 19 6 6 7 18 19 9 1 4 4 8 11 10 5 2 3 10 8 -1 24
14 Blaublitz Akita 19 6 6 7 17 19 9 2 5 2 5 6 10 4 1 5 12 13 -2 24
15 Renofa Yamaguchi 19 5 6 8 15 22 9 2 3 4 5 8 10 3 3 4 10 14 -7 21
16 Tochigi 19 4 8 7 19 23 9 2 3 4 8 10 10 2 5 3 11 13 -4 20
17 Matsumoto Yamaga 19 4 7 8 16 30 10 3 4 3 12 15 9 1 3 5 4 15 -14 19
18 Ehime 19 4 6 9 19 30 10 1 4 5 9 18 9 3 2 4 10 12 -11 18
19 ThespaKusatsu Gunma 19 4 5 10 15 25 10 3 2 5 8 12 9 1 3 5 7 13 -10 17
20 Giravanz Kitakyushu 19 4 5 10 15 30 10 1 3 6 7 15 9 3 2 4 8 15 -15 17
21 Omiya Ardija 19 2 7 10 16 24 9 1 2 6 8 12 10 1 5 4 8 12 -8 13
22 Sagamihara 19 2 5 12 10 28 10 1 3 6 7 17 9 1 2 6 3 11 -18 11