Zweigen Kanazawa vs Avispa Fukuoka Prediction & Betting Tips

Avispa Fukuoka are the guests at Ishikawa Athletics Stadium on Saturday for the J2 League tie with home team Zweigen Kanazawa.

Full predictions, pre-match stats and user poll for Zweigen Kanazawa v Avispa Fukuoka are shown on this page (including the best match odds).

📏 Form Guide

Zweigen Kanazawa LWWDDD

Zweigen Kanazawa head into this fixture following a 1-1 J2 League drawn result vs Tokushima Vortis.

The only player to score from Zweigen Kanazawa was Kyohei Sugiura (66'). Atsushi Kawata (7') was the scorer for Tokushima Vortis.

Zweigen have been finding it hard to keep clean sheets of late, but they’ve also managed to hit the back of the net themselves. Looking at their last 6 games, Zweigen have seen their goal breached in 6 of them as well as managing to get on the scoresheet in 5 of those matches.

A look at their previous results shows us that Zweigen Kanazawa:

• have not been beaten in the league by Avispa Fukuoka in their previous 3 games.
• are undefeated in their last 6 home league matches.
• have not won at home in their last 2 league matches.

Avispa Fukuoka LDWWWW 📈

Avispa Fukuoka go into this match following a 0-1 J2 League win with the eclipse of Ōmiya Ardija in their last outing.

The only scorer from Avispa Fukuoka was Juanma Delgado (65').

A sequence of dependable performances from the Avispa Fukuoka defenders has resulted in their ‘goals against’ tally standing at 4 from their last 6 outings overall. In that period of time, their own forwards have managed to score 8. Such a trend won’t necessarily be sustained into this match, of course.

Heading into this fixture, Avispa Fukuoka haven't been defeated in their previous 4 away league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head duels going back to 21/05/2017, there has been little between the sides with Zweigen Kanazawa winning 2 of those games, Avispa Fukuoka 2 and 2 being draws in normal time.

A combined total of 16 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 7 of them for Zweigen and 9 for Avispa. That is an average goals per game value of 2.67.

The previous league match featuring these clubs was J2 League match day 41 on 16/11/2019 when the final score was Avispa Fukuoka 0-2 Zweigen Kanazawa.

The match was refereed by Kazuyoshi Enomoto.

📋 Team News: Zweigen Kanazawa

Ryuhei Oishi (Cruciate Ligament Surgery), Hisashi Ohashi (Medial Collateral Ligament Injury) and Lucão (Biceps femoris muscle injury) are unavailable for Zweigen boss Masaaki Yanagishita.

🗞️ Team News: Avispa Fukuoka

Due to a mostly available group, there’s just the one fitness worry for the Avispa Fukuoka boss Kiyokazu Kudo to be concerned about. Carlos Gutiérrez (Cruciate Ligament Injury) misses out for this game.

⚡ Prediction

Avispa Fukuoka could find themselves struggling to break down this Zweigen Kanazawa outfit who we think will manage to get a goal of their own in a winning performance.

We therefore see a very even match with a 1-0 victory for Zweigen Kanazawa at the end of this game.

Let’s see how this one goes.

Peter Guest, 23:13 14/09/2020