Zweigen Kanazawa vs Ehime FC Prediction & Betting Tips

Ehime FC will be at Ishikawa Athletics Stadium on Saturday for the J2 League game with home team Zweigen Kanazawa.

Our Zweigen Kanazawa v Ehime FC tips, poll and stats can be seen in full below (including the best match odds).

📊 Form Guide

Zweigen Kanazawa LLWWLL

Zweigen Kanazawa will be wanting a better result here following the 3-2 J2 League defeat in their last game at the hands of Mito Hollyhock.

The only scorer from Zweigen Kanazawa was Lucão (54'). Kazuma Yamaguchi (30') and Masato Nakayama (63') scored for Mito Hollyhock.

In their past six fixtures, Masaaki Yanagishita's Zweigen Kanazawa have hit the target a combined total of 9 times resulting in an average number of goals per match of 1.5.

Looking at their past form shows that Zweigen Kanazawa:

• have not been beaten in the league by Ehime FC in their previous 5 matches.
• haven’t won at home in the past 5 league games. Their fans aren't happy.

Ehime FC LLLDDL ⚠

After a loss in their previous game against Júbilo Iwata in J2 League action, Ehime FC will be aiming to make amends here.

The only player to score from Ehime FC was Taishi Nishioka (84'). Kotaro Omori (58') and Lukian (63') scored for Júbilo Iwata.

It is worth noting that Ehime FC have failed to get amongst the goals over their last six encounters, netting the poor return of just 4. In those matches, Ehime have also seen the overall goal aggregate against them equal 9. That sort of trend won’t necessarily be sustained into this next game, however.

Taking a look at their past results, Ehime FC:

• remain unbeaten by Zweigen Kanazawa when they have played them away from home in the previous 2 league games.
• have not won away from home in their last 3 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their past head-to-head clashes going back to 26/02/2017 shows us that Zweigen Kanazawa have won 3 of these games & Ehime FC 1, with the tally of drawn games standing at 2.

11 goals were produced between them in this period, with 8 of them from Zweigen and 3 belonging to Ehime. The average number of goals per game works out to 1.83.

The previous league game featuring the two was J2 League match day 24 on 27/07/2019 when it finished Ehime FC 0-2 Zweigen Kanazawa.

The match was refereed by Yosuke Kubota.

📋 Team News: Zweigen Kanazawa

Regarding absentees, there’s just a single fitness concern for the Zweigen Kanazawa gaffer Masaaki Yanagishita to be concerned with from an otherwise fully-primed group of players. Ryuhei Oishi (Cruciate Ligament Surgery) is sidelined.

📋 Team News: Ehime FC

Thanks to a largely full-strength group of players, there is just the one fitness problem for the Ehime FC gaffer Kenta Kawai to be concerned with. Makito Yoshida (Achilles tendon rupture) misses out for this game.

💭 Prediction

Zweigen Kanazawa will most probably be able to score a couple when they line up against Ehime FC, who may well struggle to break down their defence.

We can therefore see a controlled 2-0 winning score for Zweigen Kanazawa come full-time.

Peter Guest, 23:03 03/08/2020