This match features two teams living in the basement of the J2-League, Ehime holding 20th place and JEF United lying 16th. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.
It's no vacation for neither Ehime nor JEF United 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.
These teams have little in common geographically as JEF United have to travel 800 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
Ehime form and stats
Ehime's struggle is real here at Ningineer Stadium with only 7 points collected from 9 J2-League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 2-1-6. We have seen two home losses in a row now for Ehime, who are hoping that the phrase “third time lucky” applies to them.
The Ehime fans got no joy from their last match, a J2-League game also here at Ningineer Stadium: A 0-1 defeat against Giravanz Kitakyushu (placed 1st). Before that match, a win away at Tokyo Verdy.
This is expected to be a close game, with Ehime perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Ehime as a small favourite), we find five games. Ehime has won one of these, drawn one and lost three.
The Ehime fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 10 in 9 matches. Ehime have conceded 14 from these games.
JEF United form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their J2-League travels is 4 wins, 1 draw and 4 defeats. Three might be a magic number, but there's been little wizardry in JEF United's last three away games as they have all been lost.
Home advantage was not enough for JEF in their previous game, as they lost their J2-League-match, hosting Albirex Niigata, 1-3. Prior to that match, the JEF United manager J. Yoon faced defeat when travelling to Kyoto Sanga and losing 0-2.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found twelve similar matches played by JEF United in our archives, and the results are: five wins for JEF, three draws and four defeats.
JEF find the net regularly in their away games. 12 goals from 9 away fixtures in the league. As opposed to that, JEF have seen the ball go into their own net 10 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Ehime five wins, two draws and JEF United three victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  T. Nishioka 3 goals |  K. Arita 3 goals | S. Niwa 3 goals |
Ehime missing players
JEF United missing players
| Ehime | JEF United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 18 | 9 | 3 | Played | P | 1 | 9 | 18 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | 6 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 4 | 10 |
| 21 | 10 | 2 | Scored | S | 3 | 12 | 22 |
| 26 | 14 | 4 | Conceded | C | 0 | 10 | 23 |
| 89% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 89% | 94% |
| 67% | 67% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 89% | 78% |
| 50% | 56% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 44% | 56% |
| 17% | 11% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 11% | 17% |
| 17% | 11% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 11% | 6% |
| 56% | 67% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 33% | 44% |
| 22% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 44% | 33% |
| 33% | 33% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 28% |
| 3.9 | 3.6 | 2.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2 | 3.8 | 4.1 |
| 4.9 | 4.3 | 3.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 12 | 5.8 | 5.5 |
| 0.9 | 1.2 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0.9 | 0.9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 140 | 77 | 30 | Total Shots | T S | 9 | 79 | 152 |
| 56 | 33 | 8 | Shots on Target | S O | 5 | 37 | 59 |
| 38% | 30% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 60% | 32% | 37% |
- 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.
- JEF United is in the worst form (0-1-5)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Giravanz Kitakyushu | 18 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 31 | 18 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 13 | 38 |
| 2 | V-Varen Nagasaki | 18 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 26 | 17 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 15 | 9 | 37 |
| 3 | Tokushima Vortis | 18 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 31 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 16 | 36 |
| 4 | Ventforet Kofu | 18 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 29 | 23 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 13 | 6 | 31 |
| 5 | Albirex Niigata | 18 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 28 | 23 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 29 |
| 6 | Jubilo Iwata | 18 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 29 | 20 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 28 |
| 7 | Tokyo Verdy | 18 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 23 | 17 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 27 |
| 8 | Kyoto Sanga | 18 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 22 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 4 | 27 |
| 9 | Machida Zelvia | 18 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 21 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 27 |
| 10 | Tochigi | 18 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 26 |
| 11 | Zweigen Kanazawa | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 29 | 28 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 18 | 18 | 1 | 25 |
| 12 | Avispa Fukuoka | 17 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 25 |
| 13 | Omiya Ardija | 17 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 20 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 13 | -5 | 24 |
| 14 | Montedio Yamagata | 18 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 18 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 22 |
| 15 | Mito Hollyhock | 18 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 25 | 27 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 18 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 9 | -2 | 21 |
| 16 | JEF United | 18 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 22 | 23 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 10 | -1 | 20 |
| 17 | Fagiano Okayama | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 19 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 | -4 | 20 |
| 18 | Ryukyu | 18 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 23 | 33 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 18 | -10 | 17 |
| 19 | Matsumoto Yamaga | 18 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 26 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 18 | -10 | 17 |
| 20 | Ehime | 18 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 21 | 26 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 12 | -5 | 16 |
| 21 | Renofa Yamaguchi | 18 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 31 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 17 | -15 | 13 |
| 22 | ThespaKusatsu Gunma | 18 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 13 | 34 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 13 | -21 | 13 |