Their J. League Cup meeting on Wednesday sees Júbilo Iwata go into battle with Shimizu S-Pulse.
Our tips, poll and stats for Júbilo Iwata v Shimizu S-Pulse can all be found here (including the best match odds).
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Júbilo Iwata
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Júbilo Iwata prepare for this game coming off the back of a 0-0 J2 League drawn result vs Montedio Yamagata.
Over their last 6 games, John Hutchison's Júbilo Iwata have managed to score a combined total of 9 times resulting in an average number of goals per match of 1.5.
Shimizu S-Pulse
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Since being defeated in their last game at the hands of Urawa Red Diamonds in J1 League competition, Shimizu S-Pulse will be aiming to make amends here.
In that match, Shimizu S-Pulse managed 56% possession and 22 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. Urawa Red Diamonds got 8 shots on goal with 3 on target. Ryoma Watanabe (4'), Matheus Sávio (59') and Shūsaku Nishikawa (79' Own goal) scored for Urawa Red Diamonds.
The numbers tell their own story, and Shimizu S-Pulse have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, with opponents netting 7 goals in total. Defensively, Shimizu S-Pulse could really do with shoring things up. We will have to find out if that trend will end up being sustained into this next match.
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Head to head
Looking at their most recent head to head clashes going back to 14/04/2019 shows us that Júbilo Iwata have won 1 of these games & Shimizu S-Pulse 3, with the number of drawn results standing at 2.
A sum of 16 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 7 for Júbilo Iwata and 9 for Shimizu. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.67.
The last league meeting between the two was J2 League match day 38 on 07/10/2023 when it finished Shimizu S-Pulse 1-0 Júbilo Iwata.
The referee was Yuichi Nishimura.
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Team News: Shimizu S-Pulse
From a largely healthy group of players, there is only a single fitness problem for the Shimizu S-Pulse boss Tadahiro Akiba to contend with. Sena Saito (Meniscus injury) misses out for this game.
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Prediction
We think that Júbilo Iwata will really need to work well to register a score against this Shimizu S-Pulse lineup who we think should manage to get a goal of their own in a winning performance.
We’re going for a very even contest with a 0-1 winning score for Shimizu S-Pulse at the end of the 90.
Hopefully it’s a good one.
Renata Leite,
23:14 05/04/2025
Odds correct at time of publishing. All odds subject to change.
🏟️ Team Focus:
Júbilo Iwata
Formed: 1972
Stadium: Yamaha Stadium (15,165)
Captain: Eiji Kawashima
Chairman: Yukimitsu Hamaura
Manager: John Hutchison
Competitions: J2 League position 3, J. League Cup (2nd Round)
⭐ Star Player: Matheus Peixoto
Customarily playing in the Striker position, Matheus Peixoto was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Having played his first senior match for Sport Recife in the 2018 season, the skilful Forward has managed 4 league goals in the J2 League 2025 season to date in a total of 7 appearances.