Struggling Ehime will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Omiya Ardija in the upcoming league round. It’s 21st vs 7th 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.
Omiya Ardija have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 800 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.
Ehime form and stats
Ehime's struggle is real here at Ningineer Stadium with only 4 points collected from 6 J2-League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-1-4. All in all it has been a very rough period for Ehime who hasn’t won a league-game in their last ten attempts. Their previous win was against Renofa Yamaguchi, 48 days ago. Ehime are very eager to stop a potential losing streak at Ningineer Stadium, having lost their two previous games here.
In their previous game, the manager K. Kawai led his Ehime to a defeat in the J2-League match away at Ventforet Kofu. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Ningineer Stadium. 0-0 away at Tochigi before that.
Ehime are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 7 goals in 6 games. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Ehime defense is not exactly impregnable. 10 goals conceded from 6 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Omiya Ardija form and stats
As the visiting team in J2-League matches, Omiya Ardija have produced an overall stat of 3-1-3 so far.
The manager T. Takagi was unhappy after their last game, a J2-League match played at their home ground NACK5 Stadium Ōmiya. Ardija suffered a 1-4 loss to Giravanz Kitakyushu (placed 2nd). Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Renofa Yamaguchi's place.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Ardija as they have only managed to score 5 times from 7 away games in the league. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (5 so far).
Head 2 Head
As for the last eight games between these two teams, there's two Ehime victories, one draw and five Omiya Ardija wins. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  Y. Fujimoto 9 goals |   R. Simovic 8 goals |
Ehime missing players
Omiya Ardija missing players
| Ehime | Omiya Ardija | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 7 | 12 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | 4 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 17 | 7 | 4 | Scored | S | 0 | 5 | 12 |
| 22 | 10 | 3 | Conceded | C | 1 | 5 | 11 |
| 92% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 77% | 67% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 29% | 42% |
| 54% | 50% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 14% | 25% |
| 23% | 17% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 23% | 17% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 62% | 67% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 29% | 33% |
| 15% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 29% | 42% |
| 31% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 43% | 25% |
| 4.5 | 4.2 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 3.8 | 3.9 |
| 5.1 | 4.2 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 3.7 | 4.3 |
| 1 | 1.3 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 107 | 55 | 10 | Total Shots | T S | 8 | 55 | 100 |
| 39 | 20 | 7 | Shots on Target | S O | 2 | 16 | 29 |
| 44% | 35% | 57% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 25% | 38% |
- Ehime has the most conceded goals in the second half (17)
- Ehime has the most dropped points from leading position (16)
- Ehime have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- Ehime haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Ehime is in the worst form (0-2-4)
- Omiya Ardija 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 | V-Varen Nagasaki | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 29 |
| 2 | Giravanz Kitakyushu | 13 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 23 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 13 | 28 |
| 3 | Tokushima Vortis | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 22 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 24 |
| 4 | Ventforet Kofu | 13 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 22 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 22 |
| 5 | Tokyo Verdy | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 17 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 20 |
| 6 | Kyoto Sanga | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 16 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 20 |
| 7 | Omiya Ardija | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 20 |
| 8 | JEF United | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 16 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 19 |
| 9 | Albirex Niigata | 13 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 20 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 19 |
| 10 | Jubilo Iwata | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 19 |
| 11 | Tochigi | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 19 |
| 12 | Zweigen Kanazawa | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 22 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 17 |
| 13 | Mito Hollyhock | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 20 | 21 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | -1 | 16 |
| 14 | Fagiano Okayama | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 16 |
| 15 | Montedio Yamagata | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -2 | 15 |
| 16 | Avispa Fukuoka | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | -3 | 15 |
| 17 | Machida Zelvia | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -4 | 14 |
| 18 | Ryukyu | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 22 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 11 | -8 | 14 |
| 19 | Matsumoto Yamaga | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 13 | -8 | 12 |
| 20 | Renofa Yamaguchi | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 22 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 15 | -9 | 11 |
| 21 | Ehime | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 17 | 22 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 12 | -5 | 9 |
| 22 | ThespaKusatsu Gunma | 13 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 27 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -17 | 9 |