Giravanz Kitakyushu vs Júbilo Iwata Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Giravanz Kitakyushu

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Giravanz Kitakyushu are hoping to win again following a 0-1 J2 League triumph versus Machida Zelvia.

The only name on the scoresheet from Giravanz Kitakyushu was Daigo Takahashi (2').

It’s been seldom in recent times where Giravanz Kitakyushu have kept a clean sheet. It will be a concern for them that Giravanz have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 7 goals on the way.

Júbilo Iwata

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Júbilo Iwata head into the encounter following on from a 1-0 J2 League win with the downing of Zweigen Kanazawa in their most recent outing.

The only player to score from Júbilo Iwata was Lukian (56').

Over the course of 5 of the past six games featuring Júbilo Iwata, a comparatively low number of goals have been scored between them and their opposition. The overall average goals scored per game in that period works out to just 1.83, with the average goals for Júbilo Iwata standing at 1.33. Such a pattern won’t necessarily follow through into this match, however.

Coming into this fixture, Júbilo Iwata are undefeated in their last 3 away league matches.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their past head to head clashes dating back to 13/04/2014 shows us that Giravanz Kitakyushu have won 2 of these games & Júbilo Iwata 4, with the tally of drawn results standing at 0.

There were also goals galore in those games, with 22 overall which averages out at 3.67 goals per meeting.

The previous league encounter between the two was J2 League match day 40 on 13/12/2020 when it ended Giravanz Kitakyushu 2-0 Júbilo Iwata.

The match was refereed by Masuya Ueda.

📰 Team News: Giravanz Kitakyushu

Giravanz Kitakyushu boss Shinji Kobayashi has no fitness worries to speak of before this match with a fully injury-free group available to select from.

ℹ️ Team News: Júbilo Iwata

Júbilo Iwata manager Masakazu Suzuki has multiple availability issues to deal with. Daiki Ogawa (Hamstring Injury) and Alexei Coselev (Fractured Finger) are names that won’t be on the team sheet.

🔮 Prediction

Here, we’re thinking that Giravanz Kitakyushu might have a difficult job to put one past this Júbilo Iwata team who we think will end up scoring and staying ahead.

With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a very competitive game with a 0-1 winning margin for Júbilo Iwata at the end of this one.

Let’s see how this one goes.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 23:02 31/05/2021