Shimizu S-Pulse vs Avispa Fukuoka Live Stream, Predictions (Apr 20)

📏 Form Guide

Shimizu S-Pulse

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Shimizu S-Pulse, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following the 2-3 J1 League victory over Yokohama F. Marinos.

In that game, Shimizu S-Pulse had 43% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 5 on target. For Shimizu S-Pulse, the goals were scored by Hikaru Nakahara (54') and Takashi Inui (82'). Yokohama F. Marinos got 16 shots on goal with 8 on target. Daiya Tono (29'), Asahi Uenaka (51') and Kodjo Aziangbe (70' Own goal) scored for Yokohama F. Marinos.

Tadahiro Akiba's Shimizu S-Pulse have celebrated scoring a sum total of 6 times over their prior 6 outings. At the other end, the tally of goals that they have conceded in that same time is 7.

Going into this encounter, Shimizu S-Pulse are unbeaten in their last 2 league matches at home.

Avispa Fukuoka

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Avispa Fukuoka will come into the game after a 1-2 J. League Cup win to defeat Tochigi S.C. in their last fixture.

The only scorer from Avispa Fukuoka was Kazuya Konno (81').

Over the course of their last 6 outings, Avispa Fukuoka have bagged a tally of 10 goals. Avispa Fukuoka have additionally got on the scoresheet on each one of those occasions. During those fixtures, they’ve seen 4 goals go into their own net.

Going into this encounter, Avispa Fukuoka are unbeaten in their previous 3 league matches away from home.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A review of their most recent head-to-head meetings dating back to 23/04/2011 shows that Shimizu S-Pulse have won 3 of them & Avispa Fukuoka 1, with the number of draws being 2.

21 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 12 from Shimizu and 9 coming from Avispa. That is an average goals per game value of 3.5.

The previous league game between the two was J1 League match day 30 on 17/09/2022 and the score finished Avispa Fukuoka 3-2 Shimizu S-Pulse.

That time, Avispa Fukuoka had 32% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 6 on target. Goals were scored by Shun Nakamura (36') and Yuya Yamagishi (42', 49').

Shimizu S-Pulse had 8 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. Reon Yamahara (29') and Thiago Santana (60') scored.

The match was refereed by Yuichi Nishimura.

📰 Team News: Shimizu S-Pulse

There’s just a single fitness concern for the Shimizu S-Pulse manager Tadahiro Akiba to be concerned about due to a largely intact group. Sena Saito (Meniscus injury) will miss out.

🗞️ Team News: Avispa Fukuoka

Avispa Fukuoka manager Myung-hwi Kim has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Jurato Ikeda (Cruciate ligament injury), Hisashi Jogo (Cruciate ligament injury), Tatsuki Nara (Knee surgery) and Itsuki Oda (Meniscus injury) will miss out on this game.

🧠 Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Shimizu S-Pulse will have their work cut out to breach the defence of this Avispa Fukuoka side who we think might score at least once to put them ahead.

We’re going for a hard-fought contest, finishing with a 0-1 winning score for Avispa Fukuoka at the end of this one.

Looking forward to this.

📖 ⚽️ What are the top odds for the game?

Checking the betting prices for this game on the full-time result market, backing Shimizu S-Pulse is best priced at 2.75, a bet on the game finishing all-square is 3.1 and taking a punt on the winner to be Avispa Fukuoka comes in at 2.63. Those are the top market prices that can be secured at this very moment.

Andre Moura, 00:05 19/04/2025