The home fans are expecting three points in this fixture, as the home advantage should be put to good use versus a struggling visitor. Fagiano Okayama are in the 14th position while the guesting ThespaKusatsu Gunma worry at 22nd.
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.
Fagiano Okayama form and stats
Fagiano Okayama have played 8 J2-League games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 3-2-3 (wins-draws-losses). The opportunity of a proper winning streak is there for the hosts, with two straight wins here at City Light Stadium.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper William Popp not having conceded a league goal in 180 minutes.
Fagiano manager K. Arima and his team return home after a 0-0 draw away versus Tokushima Vortis (placed 3rd) in the J2-League. Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against Albirex Niigata.
The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Fagiano have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found eleven games) they have won four times, drawn four and lost three.
The Fagiano fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 10 in 8 matches. On the other hand, Fagiano Okayama have conceded 10 goals.
ThespaKusatsu Gunma form and stats
As the visiting team in J2-League matches, ThespaKusatsu Gunma, who have the most conceded goals (27) in J2-League, have produced an overall stat of 2-0-3 so far.
ThespaKusatsu go into this game after a win, the home game against Renofa Yamaguchi that ended 2-1. The game before that, was lost at home, a 0-1 defeat against Ryukyu.
Late drama in the previous game, when J. Kato scored the winning goal two minutes into stoppage time to defeat Renofa Yamaguchi.
We have checked recent matches where ThespaKusatsu Gunma have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those four games were two victories, zero draws and two defeats.
ThespaKusatsu Gunma are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 6 away goals from 5 games (in the league). ThespaKusatsu have conceded 10 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Fagiano won five games, two matches ended with a draw and ThespaKusatsu Gunma has three wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: seven / threeTop Goalscorers
  Y. Lee 18 goals |
Fagiano Okayama missing players
ThespaKusatsu Gunma missing players
| Fagiano Okayama | ThespaKusatsu Gunma | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 8 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 5 | 13 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 10 |
| 13 | 10 | 3 | Scored | S | 2 | 6 | 10 |
| 14 | 10 | 4 | Conceded | C | 1 | 10 | 27 |
| 92% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 62% | 75% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 77% |
| 38% | 50% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 60% | 62% |
| 15% | 25% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 40% | 31% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 20% | 15% |
| 54% | 62% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 60% | 46% |
| 31% | 25% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 23% | 12% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 40% | 54% |
| 4.6 | 5.5 | 2.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 5.2 | 4.7 |
| 5.2 | 5.2 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 10 | 5.4 | 5.1 |
| 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0.6 | 0.8 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 115 | 77 | 20 | Total Shots | T S | 10 | 44 | 115 |
| 40 | 27 | 6 | Shots on Target | S O | 2 | 14 | 33 |
| 32% | 37% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 100% | 43% | 30% |
- All of ThespaKusatsu Gunma's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Fagiano Okayama have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Fagiano Okayama haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- ThespaKusatsu Gunma has the fewest clean sheets (0)
- ThespaKusatsu Gunma has the most conceded goals (27)
- ThespaKusatsu Gunma has the most conceded goals in the first half (13)
- ThespaKusatsu Gunma has the the worst goal difference (-17)
- ThespaKusatsu Gunma have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- ThespaKusatsu Gunma have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- ThespaKusatsu Gunma 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 |