Evenly matched teams: Matsue City vs Biwako Shiga match preview

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Competition: Japan Japan Football League
Competition: Sun 03.July
Match begins: 06:00 (UTC)

Crucial clash in the bottom section of the Japan Football League, with both Matsue City and Biwako Shiga enduring more stress than delight. This match is a typical "six-pointer" with the home side placed 16th and the away side in 14th position.

Insights:
  • Matsue City have the fewest scored goals (5) in Japan Football League
  • Biwako Shiga have the the worst goal difference (-15) in Japan Football League

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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Matsue City form and stats

Matsue City's struggle is real here with only 5 points collected from 7 Japan Football League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-2-4.

The home team returns after drawing with Suzuka Unlimited (placed 10th) on their last time out; the game ended 0-0.

Ahead of that match, Matsue City lost 0-1 at home to Nara Club.

Some goal stats: A review of the 10 most recent league matches shows that 9 of them had at least one goal from each team.

The lack of attacking qualities in Matsue means that they have only scored 3 goals in 7 league home games, less than half a goal per match.

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Biwako Shiga form and stats

As the visiting team in Japan Football League matches, Biwako Shiga have produced an overall stat of 2-1-2 so far.

The manager was unhappy after their last game, played at their home ground Nunobiki Higashiomi Stadium. Biwako Shiga suffered a 0-4 loss to Osaka (placed 2nd). That loss was their first after four consecutive league fixtures winning points. As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Osaka was particularly ugly (0-4). The humiliation is still top of mind.

Before that, Biwako Shiga travelled to Kochi United and returned home with a draw after the game finished 1-1.

For Biwako Shiga, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.

Head 2 Head

As for the last five games between these two teams, there's two Matsue victories, one draw and two Biwako Shiga wins. Over/under statistics; one of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.

Matsue City missing players

Biwako Shiga missing players

Matsue City Biwako Shiga
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
13 7 1 Played P 3 5 13
2 1 0 Won W 1 2 4
3 2 0 Drew D 1 1 2
8 4 1 Lost L 1 2 7
5 3 0 Scored S 3 5 10
15 7 2 Conceded C 5 12 25
77% 71% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
31% 43% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 80% 69%
15% 14% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 60% 54%
15% 14% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 40% 23%
8% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 40% 15%
15% 14% 0% BTTS BTTS 67% 60% 46%
31% 29% 0% Clean Sheets C S 33% 20% 15%
77% 86% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 20% 38%
 
5.8 4 0 Corners for (avg) C F 3.5 3 3.2
4.2 3 0 Corners against (avg) C A 8.5 8.3 6.8
0.8 1 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.5 0.7 0.8
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
11 5 0 Shots (avg) S ( 11 8.7 7.5
4 2 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.5 4.7 4.2
0% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 18% 29% 24%
 
8 4 0 Shots against (avg) S A 16 15.3 13.2
3.8 1 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6 5.7 5.8
Key stats in Japan Football League this season:
  • Biwako Shiga have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • Biwako Shiga have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Biwako Shiga have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Biwako Shiga have the fewest matches under the total-line (0) in Japan Football League
  • Biwako Shiga have the the worst goal difference (-15) in Japan Football League
  • Biwako Shiga haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Matsue City have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Matsue City have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (0) in Japan Football League
  • Matsue City have the fewest matches over the total-line (0) in Japan Football League
  • Matsue City have the fewest scored goals (5) in Japan Football League
  • Matsue City have the fewest scored goals in the first half (0) in Japan Football League
  • Matsue City have won significantly less corners at home than away.
  • Matsue City is in the worst form (0-2-2)

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Honda 14 7 4 3 21 10 6 3 1 2 9 6 8 4 3 1 12 4 11 25
2 Osaka 14 6 6 2 22 15 8 3 5 0 11 7 6 3 1 2 11 8 7 24
3 Nara Club 14 6 6 2 16 10 7 1 4 2 3 5 7 5 2 0 13 5 6 24
4 Verspah Oita 14 7 3 4 18 16 8 4 1 3 9 8 6 3 2 1 9 8 2 24
5 Tokyo Musashino City 14 7 2 5 17 11 6 2 1 3 7 7 8 5 1 2 10 4 6 23
6 Veertien Mie 13 6 4 3 23 15 7 3 3 1 14 9 6 3 1 2 9 6 8 22
7 Maruyasu Okazaki 12 6 2 4 13 9 5 3 0 2 8 6 7 3 2 2 5 3 4 20
8 Reinmeer Aomori 14 5 5 4 14 11 5 2 1 2 7 6 9 3 4 2 7 5 3 20
9 Honda Lock 14 5 3 6 20 13 6 3 0 3 13 4 8 2 3 3 7 9 7 18
10 Suzuka Unlimited 14 5 2 7 14 23 9 4 2 3 9 12 5 1 0 4 5 11 -9 17
11 TIAMO Hirakata 14 4 3 7 21 23 7 3 2 2 11 7 7 1 1 5 10 16 -2 15
12 Kochi United 13 3 6 4 9 11 7 1 4 2 4 6 6 2 2 2 5 5 -2 15
13 Sony Sendai 13 3 5 5 11 17 6 1 1 4 4 12 7 2 4 1 7 5 -6 14
14 Biwako Shiga 13 4 2 7 10 25 8 2 1 5 5 13 5 2 1 2 5 12 -15 14
15 Criacao Shinjuku 13 3 2 8 15 25 6 1 1 4 7 10 7 2 1 4 8 15 -10 11
16 Matsue City 13 2 3 8 5 15 7 1 2 4 3 7 6 1 1 4 2 8 -10 9