Montedio Yamagata vs Ehime FC Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Montedio Yamagata

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Montedio Yamagata will be hoping to bounce back here after the 2-0 J2 League loss in their previous game against Vegalta Sendai.

Ryunosuke Sagara (10') and Masahiro Sugata (38') scored for Vegalta Sendai.

Montedio Yamagata have really been misfiring in recent times. Their ‘goals for’ figure equals just 4 versus opposing sides over the course of their previous six matches. In those meetings, Montedio Yamagata have also seen the tally of goals that have gone against them come to 5. That kind of pattern might not follow through into this match, though.

Looking at their past form shows that Montedio Yamagata:

• haven't lost in the league to Ehime FC in their previous 9 games. A long run without a loss.
• are undefeated in their previous 2 league matches at home.

Ehime FC

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In their last fixture, Ehime FC drew 2-2 in the J2 League tie with Kagoshima United.

For Ehime FC, the goals were scored by Taiga Ishiura (25') and Riki Matsuda (49'). Masayoshi Endo (60') and Hiroya Nodake (97') scored for Kagoshima United.

In a total of 5 out of the previous 6 games featuring Ehime FC, three or more goals have been struck. The average number of goals per match in that spell is 3.17, with the average number of goals for Ehime FC coming out as 1.83.

Going into this contest, Ehime FC are unbeaten in their previous 3 away league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking on past results between these clubs stretching back to 07/07/2019 tells us that these fixtures have not been happy ones for Ehime FC. They have not been able to register any wins whatsoever while Montedio Yamagata have just been stronger than them, finishing as winners in 83% of those match-ups.

A sum of 14 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 13 of them from Yamagata and 1 coming from Ehime. That is an average goals per game value of 2.33.

The previous league clash between these clubs was J2 League match day 31 on 25/09/2021 when the final score was Ehime FC 0-4 Montedio Yamagata.

The referee was Hayato Shimizu.

📰 Team News: Montedio Yamagata

The Montedio Yamagata boss Susumu Watanabe will be thankful to have no fitness concerns to speak of ahead of this clash owing to a fully healthy squad available to choose from.

📰 Team News: Ehime FC

Due to a mostly healthy group, there is just the lone fitness problem for the Ehime FC manager Kiyotaka Ishimaru to be concerned about. Shugo Tsuji (Broken hand) won’t be in action.

✨ Prediction

We’re envisaging that Ehime FC will need things to go their way to see themselves scoring against this Montedio Yamagata outfit who we think will score one, at least.

We’re going for a hard-fought contest, finishing with a 1-0 win for Montedio Yamagata at the end of the 90 minutes.

Will be interesting to see how this one goes.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 04:10 20/04/2024