Ōmiya Ardija vs Avispa Fukuoka Prediction & Betting Tips

The J2 League tie at NACK5 Stadium Ōmiya on Sunday sees home team Ōmiya Ardija do battle with opponents Avispa Fukuoka.

Our Ōmiya Ardija v Avispa Fukuoka tips, poll and stats can be seen in full below - plus the latest match odds.

📊 Form Guide

Ōmiya Ardija WWLLWW

Ōmiya Ardija are hoping to win again after their last result, the 0-1 J2 League triumph vs Zweigen Kanazawa.

The only scorer from Ōmiya Ardija was Hijiri Onaga (7').

Fewer than three goals per game were seen in 6 of the last 6 meetings where Ōmiya Ardija have been participants. With regard to the goal attribution during that period, opposing sides scored an aggregate of 2 and Omiya managed a tally of 5. Such a pattern might not follow through into this game, however.

Leading up to this clash, Ōmiya Ardija:

• haven't been beaten in the league by Avispa Fukuoka in their previous 2 matches.
• are undefeated in their previous 6 league matches at home.

Avispa Fukuoka LLWWWD

Previously, Avispa Fukuoka drew 1-1 in the J2 League match with Ehime FC.

Over the course of 5 of the prior six games featuring Avispa Fukuoka, a notably low volume of goals have gone in between them and their opposition. The overall average goals scored per game during that spell comes out as a mere 1.67, with the average goals for Avispa being 0.83.

Heading into this contest, Avispa Fukuoka have not beaten Ōmiya Ardija when having played them away from home in the previous 4 league games. They really have not been travelling well at all.

👥 Head to head

Looking at their past head to head clashes going back to 04/05/2016 tells us that Ōmiya Ardija have won 4 of these and Avispa Fukuoka 1, with the tally of drawn matches being 1.

16 goals were scored between them in this period, with 10 for Omiya and 6 coming from Avispa. That is an average goals per game value of 2.67.

The last league meeting between the two was J2 League match day 36 on 06/11/2019 which ended up with the score at Ōmiya Ardija 3-0 Avispa Fukuoka.

The referee was Tomohiro Inoue.

🗞️ Team News: Ōmiya Ardija

Ōmiya Ardija manager Takuya Takagi will be grateful not to have any fitness worries to speak of before this game with a fully injury-free squad ready to go.

📰 Team News: Avispa Fukuoka

Out of a mainly healthy squad, there is only the sole fitness problem for the Avispa Fukuoka gaffer Kiyokazu Kudo to be concerned about. Carlos Gutiérrez (Cruciate Ligament Injury) misses out for this game.

💡 Prediction

In this game, Ōmiya Ardija have it within them to create the chances to score more than once against Avispa Fukuoka, who will not find it easy scoring a goal of their own.

Accordingly, we see a controlled 2-0 winning margin for Ōmiya Ardija at the end of the 90 minutes.

Peter Guest, 23:05 28/07/2020