Omiya Ardija favourites for feisty fight facing Sagamihara

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Competition: Japan J2-League
Competition: Sat 25.September
Match begins: 05:00 (UTC)
Venue: NACK5 Stadium Ōmiya (15491 seats)

Pay more attention to their own match tactics or look more at the opposition? Both Omiya Ardija and Sagamihara must try something more fresh than what they have done so far. Read more!

Insights:
  • Omiya Ardija have the most dropped points from leading position (22) in J2-League
  • Sagamihara have the fewest scored goals (19) in J2-League

Omiya Ardija and Sagamihara should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Omiya Ardija form and stats

With {3 J2-League wins}, 4 draws and 7 defeats from their home games, Omiya Ardija are certainly not brimming with confidence. Two home wins in a row for Ardija bring valid hopes of a third.

Omiya Ardija lost their last game at Ventforet Kofu (placed 4th) after a 0-1 scoreline.

Preceding that game was the away draw at Ehime that finished 3-3.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Ardija handle that role? We have found 14 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are seven wins, six draws and one defeat.

Ardija has scored 18 league goals at home this season, in 14 matches. 19 goals have been conceded. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Sagamihara form and stats

There's been little loot from Sagamihara's travels as they have only collected 11 points from 15 away games in the J2-League. Sagamihara only have 2 wins to counter their 8 defeats and 5 draws. Visiting Sagamihara has seen their last two away games both end with a tied score and one point each.

Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Sagamihara goalkeeper Akihiko Takeshige is eager to challenge this, with his 271 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.

Sagamihara go into this game after a win, the home game against Renofa Yamaguchi that ended 2-0.

Before that, Sagamihara travelled to V-Varen Nagasaki and returned home with a draw after the game finished 0-0.

Sagamihara are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is four wins, three draws and seven defeats. From a total of 14 matches.

There's been a serious shortage of goals from Sagamihara's away games in the league this season with only 7 goals from 15 matches. 16 goals have been conceded by Sagamihara in these games.

Head 2 Head

Ardija and Sagamihara have met earlier this season: Sagamihara - Omiya Ardija 2-1.

Top Goalscorers

SagamiharaJ. Fujimoto
J. Fujimoto
6 goals
Omiya ArdijaA. Kurokawa
A. Kurokawa
5 goals
Omiya ArdijaN. Haskić
N. Haskić
4 goals

Omiya Ardija missing players

Sagamihara missing players

Omiya Ardija Sagamihara
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
30 14 2 Played P 3 15 30
5 3 1 Won W 0 2 6
12 4 0 Drew D 0 5 10
13 7 1 Lost L 3 8 14
33 18 4 Scored S 2 7 19
39 19 1 Conceded C 5 16 34
87% 93% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 80% 80%
67% 79% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 53% 57%
43% 50% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 20% 27%
30% 36% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 7%
10% 7% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 3%
53% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 67% 33% 37%
23% 21% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 33%
37% 36% 50% Failed to Score F T 33% 53% 50%
 
5 4.8 5 Corners for (avg) C F 1.7 2.4 3.2
4.9 4.7 3.5 Corners against (avg) C A 4.3 6.1 6.3
0.9 0.9 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.7 1.1 0.8
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
8.9 8.7 11 Shots (avg) S ( 6.7 6.4 6.7
3.4 3.5 4.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.3 2.3 2.4
32% 37% 44% Goal Efficiency G E 29% 20% 26%
Key stats in J2-League this season:
  • Omiya Ardija have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Omiya Ardija have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Sagamihara have scored away.
  • Omiya Ardija have the most dropped points from leading position (22) in J2-League
  • Sagamihara have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Sagamihara have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Sagamihara have the fewest scored goals (19) in J2-League
  • Sagamihara have the fewest scored goals (7) away in J2-League
  • Sagamihara have the fewest scored goals in the second half (10) in J2-League
  • Sagamihara have won significantly less corners away then at home.

  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 30 19 7 4 48 24 15 9 4 2 28 16 15 10 3 2 20 8 24 64
2 Jubilo Iwata 30 19 6 5 53 32 15 10 2 3 27 19 15 9 4 2 26 13 21 63
3 Albirex Niigata 30 15 9 6 52 30 15 8 4 3 24 9 15 7 5 3 28 21 22 54
4 Ventforet Kofu 30 15 9 6 47 28 15 9 5 1 28 12 15 6 4 5 19 16 19 54
5 Machida Zelvia 30 15 7 8 49 29 15 6 4 5 23 16 15 9 3 3 26 13 20 52
6 V-Varen Nagasaki 30 15 7 8 44 34 15 7 5 3 25 17 15 8 2 5 19 17 10 52
7 Ryukyu 30 15 6 9 46 33 15 9 2 4 22 10 15 6 4 5 24 23 13 51
8 Montedio Yamagata 30 14 7 9 39 32 15 7 2 6 20 17 15 7 5 3 19 15 7 49
9 Mito Hollyhock 30 12 5 13 36 29 15 5 3 7 16 14 15 7 2 6 20 15 7 41
10 JEF United 30 10 10 10 29 29 15 5 5 5 16 15 15 5 5 5 13 14 0 40
11 Tokyo Verdy 30 11 7 12 42 49 14 8 1 5 24 19 16 3 6 7 18 30 -7 40
12 Blaublitz Akita 30 9 11 10 31 32 15 3 9 3 11 14 15 6 2 7 20 18 -1 38
13 Fagiano Okayama 30 9 9 12 23 25 15 4 2 9 9 13 15 5 7 3 14 12 -2 36
14 Tochigi 30 7 12 11 28 35 15 3 6 6 14 17 15 4 6 5 14 18 -7 33
15 Renofa Yamaguchi 30 8 8 14 26 37 15 5 4 6 14 14 15 3 4 8 12 23 -11 32
16 ThespaKusatsu Gunma 30 8 8 14 26 40 15 4 5 6 14 18 15 4 3 8 12 22 -14 32
17 Giravanz Kitakyushu 30 6 11 13 24 41 16 3 5 8 11 20 14 3 6 5 13 21 -17 29
18 Sagamihara 30 6 10 14 19 34 15 4 5 6 12 18 15 2 5 8 7 16 -15 28
19 Zweigen Kanazawa 30 7 7 16 27 43 16 3 5 8 14 23 14 4 2 8 13 20 -16 28
20 Omiya Ardija 30 5 12 13 33 39 14 3 4 7 18 19 16 2 8 6 15 20 -6 27
21 Matsumoto Yamaga 30 6 9 15 25 52 15 4 5 6 16 24 15 2 4 9 9 28 -27 27
22 Ehime 30 5 11 14 29 49 15 1 7 7 17 29 15 4 4 7 12 20 -20 26