Júbilo Iwata vs Fagiano Okayama Prediction & Betting Tips

Fagiano Okayama make the trip to Yamaha Stadium on Sunday for the J2 League showdown with home side Júbilo Iwata.

View all of the Júbilo Iwata v Fagiano Okayama predictions, poll and stats below - plus the latest match odds.

📊 Form Guide

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Júbilo Iwata will be wanting a better result here after the 2-0 J2 League defeat last time out to Kyoto Sanga.

Peter Utaka (28', 47') scored for Kyoto Sanga.

It has been a rare occasion in recent games that Júbilo Iwata have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The reality is that Júbilo Iwata have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 matches, shipping 9 goals in the process. That kind of pattern won’t necessarily be carried forward into this game, of course.

Going into this encounter, Júbilo Iwata are unbeaten in their previous 2 home league matches.

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In their previous game, Fagiano Okayama drew 2-2 in the J2 League match with Renofa Yamaguchi.

For Fagiano Okayama, the scorers were Shintaro Shimizu (56') and Yong-Jae Lee (74'). Kazuma Takai (15') and Iury Castilho (52') scored for Renofa Yamaguchi.

For 5 of the previous six games featuring Fagiano Okayama, a notably low volume of goals have been scored between them and opposing sides. The overall average goals scored per game within that spell comes to a meagre 1.5, with the average goals for Okayama equalling 0.67.

Ahead of this meeting, Fagiano Okayama are without an away win for the past 4 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

The last league encounter featuring these clubs was J2 League match day 27 on 01/08/2015 and the score finished Fagiano Okayama 1-2 Júbilo Iwata.

The referee was Nobutsugu Murakami.

🗞️ Team News: Júbilo Iwata

Júbilo Iwata manager Fernando Jubero will be thankful to have no fitness worries to speak of before this match owing to a fully healthy group available to select from.

🗞️ Team News: Fagiano Okayama

Owing to a fully healthy squad available for selection, Fagiano Okayama manager Kenji Arima has no fitness concerns to report ahead of this clash.

💡 Prediction

When taking all factors into account, Fagiano Okayama have it in them to score a goal against this Júbilo Iwata outfit, but that is unlikely to be enough to avoid a loss.

We’re predicting a narrow 2-1 win for Júbilo Iwata at the end of the 90 minutes. There shouldn’t be much in it, either way.

Andre Moura, 23:14 30/06/2020