Delightful dogfight as daring Gifu duel with determined Osaka

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Competition: Japan J3-League
Competition: Sun 16.April
Match begins: 05:00 (UTC)
Venue: Nagaragawa Stadium (16300 seats)

Gifu have won 8 points running out as the home side. Osaka have gained 6 points being the away side. Will this be a home win?

Insights:
  • Gifu have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Osaka have scored in all their away matches so far.

Gifu's stadium, Nagaragawa Stadium, has a grass surface. Osaka have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Osaka when playing on grass; 6 wins, 4 draws and 7 losses from 17 matches. They have scored {23 goals} in these games and conceded 23.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Gifu form and stats

Seven points from three J3-League home games is a great start for Gifu, who are hoping to build on that form here at Nagaragawa Stadium.

No payout for Gifu in their previous match, an away game at Ehime that ended in defeat 1-2.

Before that, Gifu had a home game versus Ryukyu which ended with a victory 3-1.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Gifu handle that role? We have found 12 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 7 wins, 0 draws and 5 defeats.

The Gifu fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 5 goals in 3 league matches. From these home matches, Gifu have conceded only 2 goals.

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Osaka form and stats

Things could have gone better for Osaka in their J3-League away matches, but 3 points from 3 games is all right.

Osaka are travelling after their nice 3-1 home win in the game against Imabari (placed 10th). That victory felt nice as this team had gone three league fixtures without victory.

Preceding that, the 0-1 home loss versus Kataller Toyama.

We have checked recent matches where Osaka have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 6 games were 2 victories, 1 draw and 3 defeats.

As opposed to that, Osaka have seen the ball go into their own net 4 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Top Goalscorers

GifuR. Kubota
R. Kubota
3 goals
OsakaT. Shimada
T. Shimada
3 goals
GifuY. Oiji
Y. Oiji
1 goals

Gifu missing players

Osaka missing players

Gifu Osaka
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
6 3 0 Played P 1 3 6
2 2 0 Won W 0 1 2
2 1 0 Drew D 0 0 0
2 0 0 Lost L 1 2 4
7 5 0 Scored S 1 3 6
6 2 0 Conceded C 2 4 9
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
67% 67% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 67% 67%
33% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 67% 67%
17% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 17%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
67% 67% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 67% 50%
17% 33% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 17%
17% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 33%
 
6.5 5.3 0 Corners for (avg) C F 1 2.3 3.2
4.3 4.3 0 Corners against (avg) C A 10 8 6
1.3 1.3 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1 0.7
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
9.5 9.7 0 Shots (avg) S ( 9 7.3 8.2
3.2 4 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 2 3.5
37% 42% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 50% 29%
 
7.7 9 0 Shots against (avg) S A 16 11.3 12.5
3 4 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6 4 5
Key stats in J3-League this season:
  • Gifu have created more than twice as many corners as Osaka.
  • Gifu have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Gifu have won significantly less corners at home than away.
  • Gifu haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Osaka have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Osaka have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Osaka have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Osaka 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 Kataller Toyama 6 4 1 1 12 8 3 2 1 0 8 5 3 2 0 1 4 3 4 13
2 Matsumoto Yamaga 6 3 3 0 11 4 2 0 2 0 1 1 4 3 1 0 10 3 7 12
3 Grulla Morioka 6 3 2 1 13 5 2 0 2 0 2 2 4 3 0 1 11 3 8 11
4 Parceiro Nagano 6 3 2 1 11 7 3 2 0 1 5 3 3 1 2 0 6 4 4 11
5 Ehime 6 3 2 1 9 10 4 2 1 1 6 8 2 1 1 0 3 2 -1 11
6 Kamatamare Sanuki 6 3 1 2 6 9 3 3 0 0 4 0 3 0 1 2 2 9 -3 10
7 Nara Club 6 2 3 1 9 6 3 0 2 1 3 5 3 2 1 0 6 1 3 9
8 Gainare Tottori 6 2 3 1 13 11 3 0 2 1 7 8 3 2 1 0 6 3 2 9
9 Vanraure Hachinohe 6 2 3 1 7 6 2 1 1 0 2 1 4 1 2 1 5 5 1 9
10 Imabari 6 2 3 1 7 7 3 1 2 0 4 3 3 1 1 1 3 4 0 9
11 Gifu 6 2 2 2 7 6 3 2 1 0 5 2 3 0 1 2 2 4 1 8
12 Kagoshima United 6 2 2 2 6 7 3 2 1 0 5 3 3 0 1 2 1 4 -1 8
13 Ryukyu 6 2 1 3 6 9 4 2 0 2 3 4 2 0 1 1 3 5 -3 7
14 Azul Claro Numazu 6 1 3 2 4 5 3 1 1 1 3 3 3 0 2 1 1 2 -1 6
15 Osaka 6 2 0 4 6 9 3 1 0 2 3 5 3 1 0 2 3 4 -3 6
16 Giravanz Kitakyushu 6 1 2 3 9 10 4 1 1 2 6 6 2 0 1 1 3 4 -1 5
17 Sagamihara 6 1 2 3 6 8 3 1 1 1 4 4 3 0 1 2 2 4 -2 5
18 Tegevajaro Miyazaki 6 1 2 3 2 6 3 0 1 2 0 3 3 1 1 1 2 3 -4 5
19 Fukushima United 6 1 1 4 3 7 2 0 0 2 0 3 4 1 1 2 3 4 -4 4
20 YSCC 6 0 2 4 5 12 4 0 1 3 3 9 2 0 1 1 2 3 -7 2