Ehime FC vs Ventforet Kofu Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Ehime FC

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Ehime FC will be wanting a better result here after the 2-1 J2 League defeat in their last game at the hands of Montedio Yamagata.

The only scorer from Ehime FC was Ben Duncan (93'). Zain Issaka (24') and Naohiro Sugiyama (67') scored for Montedio Yamagata.

Ehime FC have not been the best at stopping their opponents lately, but they’ve also done enough to convert their own chances into goals. Over their last 6 matches, Ehime FC have seen their goal breached in 5 of them as well as scoring in 6 of those games.

Their past results show that Ehime FC:

• have not won against Ventforet Kofu in their last 6 league matches.
• are undefeated in their previous 3 league matches at home.
• have not won at home in their last 2 league matches.

Ventforet Kofu

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Ventforet Kofu will go into the clash following on from a 4-1 J2 League win with the defeat of Thespa Kusatsu in their previous fixture.

For Ventforet Kofu, goals were scored by Peter Utaka (6', 62'), Adaílton (10') and Kazushi Mitsuhira (19'). Shuto Kitagawa (95') was the scorer for Thespa Kusatsu.

The stats tell the story, and Ventforet Kofu have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, letting opponents get 8 goals in all. Defensively, Ventforet Kofu certainly have room for improvement. Previous results aside, time will tell if the trend shall persist in this match or not.

Looking at their past form shows that Ventforet Kofu:

• are undefeated by Ehime FC when they have played them away from home in the previous 6 league matches. A very good run of results for them.
• are undefeated in their last 6 league matches away from home.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at their past head to head meetings going back to 27/04/2019 tells us that these fixtures have been miserable for Ehime FC. They have not managed to get themselves any wins whatsoever while Ventforet Kofu have managed to find a way, winning in 83 per cent of those matches played.

A combined sum of 12 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 3 of them from Ehime and 9 created by Kofu. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.

The previous league encounter featuring these clubs was J2 League match day 22 on 11/07/2021 when it ended Ventforet Kofu 1-0 Ehime FC.

The referee was Masaki Tsuruoka.

📋 Team News: Ehime FC

Nearly everyone is up for selection, with just one fitness concern for the Ehime FC gaffer Kiyotaka Ishimaru to be concerned about from an otherwise fully-primed group. Shugo Tsuji (Broken hand) will miss out. Riki Matsuda cannot play in this game through suspension.

📰 Team News: Ventforet Kofu

Ventforet Kofu manager Yoshiyuki Shinoda has some current player fitness concerns. Kaito Kamiya (concussion), Iwana Kobayashi (Hamstring injury), Kohei Kawata (Hamstring injury), Tsubasa Shibuya (Finger injury) and Miki Inoue (Cruciate ligament injury) are names that won’t be on the team sheet.

💭 Prediction

We’re envisaging that Ehime FC could find themselves struggling to put one past this Ventforet Kofu lineup who we think will likely just have the edge.

That’s why we have predicted a hard-fought contest, finishing with a 0-1 winning margin for Ventforet Kofu at the end of the match.

Should be an interesting one.

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Andre Moura, 13:09 25/04/2024