📊 Form Guide
Ehime FC LWLLLD
Ehime FC go into this fixture coming off the back of a 1-1 J2 League drawn match versus Kataller Toyama.
The only player to score from Ehime FC was Ryoga Ishio (37'). Sota Fukazawa (93') scored for Kataller Toyama.
It’s been seldom in recent games that Ehime FC have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. In fact, Ehime FC have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 games, shipping 10 goals on the way.
Their past results show that Ehime FC:
- have left without a victory over V-Varen Nagasaki in their previous 7 league games.
- haven’t won at home in the past 7 matches in the league. That's never good.
V-Varen Nagasaki DDWWDL
Following on from a losing effort in their last game against Júbilo Iwata in J2 League competition, V-Varen Nagasaki and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.
Ryo Watanabe (45') was the scorer for Júbilo Iwata.
In 5 of the past six clashes featuring V-Varen Nagasaki, a comparatively low number of goals have been scored between them and their opposition. The overall average goals scored per game in that period is a meagre 1.83, with the number of goals averaged by VVN being 1.33. It will be interesting to find out if that trend will be sustained in this game.
Going into this contest, V-Varen Nagasaki have not lost to Ehime FC in away games against them for the last 4 league games. A solid away record against them.
↔️ Head to head
An inspection of their past head to head meetings stretching back to 13/03/2021 reveals that these fixtures have not been good ones for Ehime FC. They have not managed to get themselves any victories whatsoever while V-Varen Nagasaki have just been stronger than them, finishing as winners in 67% of those match-ups.
A lot of goals were also scored during this period, 23 in total at an average of 3.83 goals per meeting.
The last league game featuring the two was J2 League match day 13 on 03/05/2025 when it ended V-Varen Nagasaki 1-1 Ehime FC.
The match was refereed by Naoto Uehara.
📋 Team News: Ehime FC
The Ehime FC boss Shinya Aono has zero fitness concerns at all coming into this game with a completely injury-free squad available for selection.
ℹ️ Team News: V-Varen Nagasaki
Due to a fully injury-free squad to pick from, the V-Varen Nagasaki manager Takuya Takagi has no fitness worries to speak of coming into this clash.
🧠 Prediction
We feel that in this game, Ehime FC are capable enough to put a goal past this V-Varen Nagasaki team, however a single goal possibly won’t quite be good enough.
Our selection here is for a very close game with a 1-2 advantage for V-Varen Nagasaki by the conclusion of the game. Could easily go either way, this.