Match preview J2-League: Ehime - Giravanz Kitakyushu at Ningineer Stadium

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Competition: Japan J2-League
Competition: Wed 09.September
Match begins: 10:00 (UTC)
Venue: Ningineer Stadium (20919 seats)

Struggling Ehime will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Giravanz Kitakyushu in the upcoming league round. It’s 18th vs 2nd and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Ehime form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the J2-League this season. Ehime have only managed 2 wins, 1 draw and 5 losses from their games here at Ningineer Stadium.

Happy days for Ehime in their previous game, a J2-League match away at Tokyo Verdy (placed 9th) that ended with a 1-0 victory. Preceding that match was a defeat to Machida Zelvia (1-2).

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Ehime, as the J2-League home game vs JEF United is only three days away.

Ehime are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 10 goals in 8 games. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 13 goals have been conceded.

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Giravanz Kitakyushu form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their J2-League travels is 4 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats.

Giravanz Kitakyushu failed to get anything from their last game, a J2-League home match vs Ventforet Kofu (placed 4th) that ended with defeat 0-3. A 2-2 draw at Tochigi's stadium before that.

A quick return to home after this game, as Kitakyushu are hosting Albirex Niigata in the J2-League only four days away.

Kitakyushu are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 13 times in 7 away games so far. 9 goals have been conceded by Kitakyushu in these games.

Head 2 Head

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

Top Goalscorers

EhimeY. Fujimoto
Y. Fujimoto
9 goals
Giravanz KitakyushuS. Machino
S. Machino
8 goals

Ehime missing players

Giravanz Kitakyushu missing players

Ehime Giravanz Kitakyushu
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
17 8 3 Played P 3 7 17
4 2 1 Won W 3 4 11
4 1 0 Drew D 0 1 2
9 5 2 Lost L 0 2 4
21 10 6 Scored S 6 13 30
25 13 7 Conceded C 2 9 18
88% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 94%
71% 75% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 88%
53% 62% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 71% 65%
18% 12% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 29% 24%
18% 12% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 14% 12%
59% 75% 100% BTTS BTTS 67% 71% 53%
24% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 33% 14% 29%
29% 25% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 14% 24%
 
3.9 3.5 4 Corners for (avg) C F 7.3 5.4 4.4
4.7 3.8 4 Corners against (avg) C A 1.7 3.1 3.5
0.9 1.2 1.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.7 0.6 0.7
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
135 72 23 Total Shots T S 39 70 172
52 29 15 Shots on Target S O 15 28 62
40% 34% 40% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 46% 48%
Key stats in J2-League this season:
  • All of Giravanz Kitakyushu's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Ehime has the most dropped points from leading position (16)
  • Ehime have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • Ehime have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Ehime haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Giravanz Kitakyushu has the fewest dropped points from leading position (0)
  • Giravanz Kitakyushu have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Giravanz Kitakyushu have won significantly more corners away than at home.
  • Giravanz Kitakyushu haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 V-Varen Nagasaki 17 11 4 2 26 15 8 7 1 0 12 2 9 4 3 2 14 13 11 37
2 Giravanz Kitakyushu 17 11 2 4 30 18 10 7 1 2 17 9 7 4 1 2 13 9 12 35
3 Tokushima Vortis 17 10 3 4 30 15 9 5 2 2 15 5 8 5 1 2 15 10 15 33
4 Ventforet Kofu 17 7 7 3 27 23 9 5 3 1 14 10 8 2 4 2 13 13 4 28
5 Jubilo Iwata 17 7 6 4 29 20 9 5 2 2 18 9 8 2 4 2 11 11 9 27
6 Albirex Niigata 17 6 8 3 25 22 10 4 4 2 14 14 7 2 4 1 11 8 3 26
7 Machida Zelvia 17 7 5 5 20 17 9 3 4 2 11 8 8 4 1 3 9 9 3 26
8 Tochigi 17 7 5 5 14 13 8 2 4 2 6 6 9 5 1 3 8 7 1 26
9 Tokyo Verdy 17 6 6 5 22 17 8 3 3 2 11 6 9 3 3 3 11 11 5 24
10 Kyoto Sanga 17 6 6 5 20 18 7 5 2 0 13 5 10 1 4 5 7 13 2 24
11 Zweigen Kanazawa 17 7 3 7 28 27 8 3 3 2 10 9 9 4 0 5 18 18 1 24
12 Omiya Ardija 16 7 3 6 15 15 7 4 2 1 9 7 9 3 1 5 6 8 0 24
13 Montedio Yamagata 17 5 7 5 18 16 8 3 3 2 11 9 9 2 4 3 7 7 2 22
14 Avispa Fukuoka 16 6 4 6 15 16 9 3 2 4 9 10 7 3 2 2 6 6 -1 22
15 JEF United 17 6 2 9 21 20 8 2 1 5 9 10 9 4 1 4 12 10 1 20
16 Mito Hollyhock 17 5 5 7 25 27 10 2 3 5 15 18 7 3 2 2 10 9 -2 20
17 Fagiano Okayama 17 5 5 7 15 18 10 4 2 4 11 11 7 1 3 3 4 7 -3 20
18 Ehime 17 4 4 9 21 25 8 2 1 5 10 13 9 2 3 4 11 12 -4 16
19 Matsumoto Yamaga 17 4 4 9 14 24 7 3 1 3 7 8 10 1 3 6 7 16 -10 16
20 Ryukyu 17 3 5 9 18 33 7 0 4 3 9 15 10 3 1 6 9 18 -15 14
21 ThespaKusatsu Gunma 17 4 1 12 13 32 9 1 1 7 6 19 8 3 0 5 7 13 -19 13
22 Renofa Yamaguchi 17 3 3 11 14 29 8 3 0 5 8 12 9 0 3 6 6 17 -15 12