The Gifu & Kagoshima United managers Z. Zemunovic and J. Kim are both dreading and looking forward to this decisive game in the upper regions of the J3-League league table.
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.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1000 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
Gifu form and stats
Overall J3-League stats at home this season for Gifu are 4-3-1 (wins-draw-losses). The team is able to perform also as the away side, as they are nurturing a very healthy winning streak of four straight victories regardless of arena.
A strong away win before that one, visiting Roasso Kumamoto and winning 3-2.
The game against Imabari had lots of late drama as Gifu came back from being down 0-2 and finally secured the victory through S. Kawanishi's goal in the 88th minute.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Gifu as they have a new game in only three days, a J3-League match thankfully also at home. Blaublitz Akita are visiting.
Gifu have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Nagaragawa Stadium with 12 goals in 8 league matches. It's worth mentioning that 6 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Gifu have only conceded 7 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.
Kagoshima United form and stats
5-2-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Kagoshima United in their J3-League matches away.
Kagoshima United have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 21 goals from 10 away matches. Kagoshima have conceded 11 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Kagoshima United - Gifu 0-4 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. Gifu-Kagoshima United H2H statistics last three meetings regardless of arena: Gifu one win, Kagoshima United one win, one draw. one of these three matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  S. Kawanishi 8 goals |   T. Ushinohama 7 goals |
Gifu missing players
Kagoshima United missing players
| Gifu | Kagoshima United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 19 | 8 | 2 | Played | P | 4 | 10 | 20 |
| 11 | 4 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 35 | 12 | 1 | Scored | S | 4 | 21 | 33 |
| 23 | 7 | 2 | Conceded | C | 5 | 11 | 27 |
| 95% | 88% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 75% | 90% | 95% |
| 89% | 75% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 70% | 75% |
| 58% | 38% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 60% | 65% |
| 42% | 25% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 50% | 35% |
| 21% | 12% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 40% | 25% |
| 58% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 60% | 60% |
| 32% | 38% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 30% | 25% |
| 16% | 25% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 20% | 20% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.8 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 158 | 76 | 16 | Total Shots | T S | 36 | 107 | 205 |
| 68 | 25 | 8 | Shots on Target | S O | 16 | 41 | 78 |
| 47% | 48% | 12% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 51% | 38% |
- Kagoshima United has the most scored goals in the first half (19) in J3-League
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Blaublitz Akita | 19 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 31 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 18 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 26 | 47 |
| 2 | Parceiro Nagano | 20 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 32 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 16 | 38 |
| 3 | Roasso Kumamoto | 20 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 36 | 24 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 38 |
| 4 | Gifu | 19 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 35 | 23 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 23 | 16 | 12 | 37 |
| 5 | Sagamihara | 20 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 25 | 25 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 0 | 35 |
| 6 | Kagoshima United | 20 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 33 | 27 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 11 | 6 | 33 |
| 7 | Gainare Tottori | 20 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 27 | 23 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 4 | 33 |
| 8 | Fujieda MYFC | 20 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 35 | 33 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 18 | 2 | 30 |
| 9 | Imabari | 20 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 20 | 16 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 29 |
| 10 | Kataller Toyama | 19 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 31 | 26 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 20 | 15 | 5 | 27 |
| 11 | Azul Claro Numazu | 20 | 7 | 2 | 11 | 23 | 28 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 17 | -5 | 23 |
| 12 | Gamba Osaka U23 | 20 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 28 | 34 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 16 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 18 | -6 | 21 |
| 13 | Fukushima United | 20 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 27 | 35 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 19 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 11 | 16 | -8 | 21 |
| 14 | Grulla Morioka | 20 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 18 | 32 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 21 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 11 | -14 | 20 |
| 15 | YSCC | 20 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 26 | 40 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 21 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 19 | -14 | 19 |
| 16 | Vanraure Hachinohe | 19 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 25 | 35 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 18 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 17 | -10 | 18 |
| 17 | Cerezo Osaka U23 | 20 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 19 | 37 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 25 | -18 | 14 |
| 18 | Kamatamare Sanuki | 20 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 20 | 32 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 19 | -12 | 13 |