Struggling ThespaKusatsu Gunma will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Júbilo Iwata in the upcoming league round. It’s 21st vs 4th and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
ThespaKusatsu Gunma form and stats
The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the J2-League this season. ThespaKusatsu Gunma, who have the most conceded goals (27) in J2-League, have only managed 1 win, 0 draws and 7 losses from their games here at Shoda Shoyu Stadium Gunma.
A good away victory last time out for ThespaKusatsu, who won 1-0 against Fagiano Okayama (placed 17th). Before that game, the 2-1 home victory against Renofa Yamaguchi.
ThespaKusatsu are traveling soon after this match as the J2-League match at Ventforet Kofu awaits in three days.
The lack of attacking qualities in ThespaKusatsu means that they have only scored 4 goals in 8 league home games, less than half a goal per match. ThespaKusatsu Gunma are struggling defensively, conceding on average more than two goals per home game (17 from 8 played).
Júbilo Iwata form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Júbilo Iwata so far with only 6 points returning home. The records show 1-3-2 (win-draw-lose). Two points from the last two away games for Júbilo, which the math geniuses among you will translate to two draws.
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. Júbilo Iwata goalkeeper is eager to challenge this, with his 235 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
K. Ogawa, T. Miyazaki, Lulinha (2) and H. Yamada scored in Júbilo Iwata's previous match, the home game against Zweigen Kanazawa that ended 6-0. A 0-0 draw at Machida Zelvia's stadium before that.
As you can tell from the results above, Júbilo was very dominant against Zweigen Kanazawa, winning the match with a scoreline that even the finest fortune teller couldn't predict. 6-0 (!) with K. Ogawa, T. Miyazaki, Lulinha (2) and H. Yamada providing the goals.
A new game in only three days for Júbilo Iwata, the J2-League home match versus Tokyo Verdy. Busy days.
Júbilo have scored 6 goals on their travels this season, from 6 away games in the league. As opposed to that, Júbilo have seen the ball go into their own net 8 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last four matches): ThespaKusatsu one win, one draw and Júbilo Iwata two victories. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Kato 9 goals |  S. Aoki 8 goals |
ThespaKusatsu Gunma missing players
Júbilo Iwata missing players
| ThespaKusatsu Gunma | Júbilo Iwata | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 8 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 6 | 14 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 10 | 7 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 11 | 4 | 1 | Scored | S | 4 | 6 | 22 |
| 27 | 17 | 5 | Conceded | C | 3 | 8 | 15 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 67% | 83% | 93% |
| 71% | 62% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 67% | 86% |
| 57% | 62% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 50% | 50% |
| 29% | 25% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 33% | 21% |
| 14% | 12% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 7% |
| 43% | 38% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 50% | 50% |
| 7% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 17% | 29% |
| 50% | 62% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 50% | 29% |
| 5.1 | 4.4 | 2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 5.6 | 5.5 |
| 4.8 | 4.9 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.9 |
| 0.9 | 1 | 0.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.7 | 1 | 0.8 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 123 | 71 | 11 | Total Shots | T S | 29 | 43 | 148 |
| 37 | 19 | 4 | Shots on Target | S O | 11 | 16 | 55 |
| 30% | 21% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 36% | 38% | 40% |
- Júbilo Iwata has the most scored goals in the second half (15)
- ThespaKusatsu Gunma has the fewest clean sheets (1)
- ThespaKusatsu Gunma has the fewest points (3) at home
- ThespaKusatsu Gunma has the most conceded goals (17) at home
- 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 (-13) at home
- ThespaKusatsu Gunma has the the worst goal difference (-16)
- 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 home matches.
- ThespaKusatsu Gunma have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- 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 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 32 |
| 2 | Giravanz Kitakyushu | 14 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 25 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 14 | 31 |
| 3 | Tokushima Vortis | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 24 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 12 | 27 |
| 4 | Júbilo Iwata | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 22 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 22 |
| 5 | Albirex Niigata | 14 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 21 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 22 |
| 6 | Ventforet Kofu | 14 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 23 | 22 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 13 | 1 | 22 |
| 7 | Kyoto Sanga | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 18 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 21 |
| 8 | Tokyo Verdy | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 18 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 20 |
| 9 | Omiya Ardija | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 20 |
| 10 | JEF United | 14 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 17 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 19 |
| 11 | Tochigi | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | -1 | 19 |
| 12 | Montedio Yamagata | 14 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 18 |
| 13 | Avispa Fukuoka | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | -2 | 18 |
| 14 | Zweigen Kanazawa | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 22 | 24 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 15 | 17 | -2 | 17 |
| 15 | Machida Zelvia | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | -2 | 17 |
| 16 | Mito Hollyhock | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 22 | 24 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | -2 | 16 |
| 17 | Fagiano Okayama | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | -2 | 16 |
| 18 | Ryūkyū | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 23 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 12 | -9 | 14 |
| 19 | Matsumoto Yamaga | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 15 | -8 | 13 |
| 20 | Ehime | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 19 | 23 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 12 | -4 | 12 |
| 21 | ThespaKusatsu Gunma | 14 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 11 | 27 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -16 | 12 |
| 22 | Renofa Yamaguchi | 14 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 13 | 24 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 15 | -11 | 11 |