Ehime FC vs Júbilo Iwata Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Ehime FC

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Ehime FC will be hoping to bounce back here after the 3-2 J2 League loss in their previous game against Kyoto Sanga.

The only name on the scoresheet from Ehime FC was Yoshiki Fujimoto (79'). Takumi Miyayoshi (5'), Temma Matsuda (40') and Jordy Buijs (76') scored for Kyoto Sanga.

It has not been often in recent games where Ehime FC have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. In fact, Ehime have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 games, leaking 10 goals along the way. We will have to see if that trend can be continued on in this game.

Júbilo Iwata

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Júbilo Iwata head into the encounter following on from a 3-2 J2 League win to defeat Tochigi S.C. in their last fixture.

For Júbilo Iwata, the goalscorers were Lukian (28', 37') and Hiroki Ito (76'). Kisho Yano (30') and Juninho (56') scored for Tochigi S.C.

Demonstrating their penchant for fruitful matches, goals have been seen as many as 20 times in the last six games in which Júbilo Iwata have taken to the pitch, giving an average of 3.33 goals each clash. Their opponents have hit 7 from this total.

👥 Head to head

Looking over past results between these clubs going back to 06/05/2014 shows that these encounters have been miserable for Ehime FC. They’ve not managed to get any victories at all whereas Júbilo Iwata have just been too good for them, beating them in 67% of those match-ups.

In all, 10 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 2 of them for Ehime and 8 coming from Júbilo Iwata. The average goals per game has been 1.67.

The previous league encounter between the two was J2 League match day 32 on 08/11/2020 when it finished Júbilo Iwata 1-1 Ehime FC.

The match was refereed by Futoshi Nakamura.

📋 Team News: Ehime FC

Ehime FC manager Noritada Saneyoshi will be grateful not to have any fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this game with a fully injury-free group available to select from.

📰 Team News: Júbilo Iwata

Due to a mostly full-strength group of players, there’s only the lone fitness issue for the Júbilo Iwata gaffer Masakazu Suzuki to contend with. Daiki Ogawa (Hamstring Injury) misses out for this game.

💡 Prediction

In this match, Ehime FC have it within them to put a goal past this Júbilo Iwata side, but one goal probably won’t quite be as many as the goals that they could concede.

We’re therefore expecting a narrow 1-2 win for Júbilo Iwata when all is said and done. Looking forward to this.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 10:14 02/05/2021