Our Matchweek 20 fixture sees Montedio Yamagata host Giravanz Kitakyushu at the NDsoft Stadium Yamagata! We will have all of the action for you LIVE, starting at 18:00 JST, so be sure to tune in!
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Starting Line-ups:
Montedio Yamagata:
GK 21 Masatoshi KUSHIBIKI
DF 6 Takumi YAMADA
DF 23 Yuta KUMAMOTO
DF 5 Hiroki NODA
DF 19 Ryota MATSUMOTO
MF 10 Atsutaka NAKAMURA
MF 7 Kenya OKAZAKI
MF 17 Shun NAKAMURA
MF 20 Taiki KATO
FW 9 VINICIUS ARAUJO 🇧🇷
FW 11 Yuya YAMAGISHI
Subs:
GK 30 Akihiro SATO
DF 31 Riku HANDA
MF 14 Takuya HONDA
MF 18 Shuto MINAMI
MF 25 Rui SUEYOSHI
FW 13 Shuhei OTSUKI
FW 16 Shuto KITAGAWA
Giravanz Kitakyushu:
GK 31 Kengo NAGAI
DF 3 Kenta FUKUMORI
DF 6 Kazuya OKAMURA
DF 15 Wataru NOGUCHI
DF 16 Kota MURAMATSU
MF 10 Daigo TAKAHASHI
MF 17 Koken KATO
MF 25 Shintaro KOKUBU
MF 39 Naoki TSUBAKI
FW 9 Akira Silvano DISARO’
FW 18 Shuto MACHINO
Subs:
GK 1 Takuya TAKAHASHI
DF 20 Takashi KAWANO
DF 32 Takuya NAGATA
MF 14 Takayuki ARAKAKI
MF 4 Ryu KAWAKAMI
FW 11 Tomoki IKEMOTO
FW 28 Kunitomo SUZUKI
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Player Info:
Giravanz Kitakyushu’s #9 Akira Silvaro Dilsaro has scored 9 goals already, coming in 2nd of the top scorer in J2 and 2nd for Japanese top scorer in J.LEAGUE.
Giravanz Kitakyushu’s #18 Shuto Machino scored 7 goals and 7 assists so far this season. Additionally, he’s created 2.8 chances per game for his teammates to score a goal, coming in 4th in J2.
Giravanz Kitakyushu’s #18 Shuto Machino comes in 2nd for the most assists in J2 with 7 assists.
Team Info:
Giravanz Kitakyushu’s manager Shinji Kobayashi has a 100% success rate of bringing a team to promotion since the 2001 season.
Montedio Yamagata was promoted twice to J1 in 2008 and in 2014. The last time that they were promoted, Shinji Kobayashi was managing the team.
Montedio Yamagata haven’t won any games yet in September with 2 draws, 2 losses and 1 goal scored
In Giravanz Kitakyushu’s last 10 games, they’ve won 8, drew 1 and lost only 1 game
Giravanz Kitakyushu have currently scored the most goals in the 2020 J2 League, with 33.
Montedio Yamagata have failed to win at home 2 games in a row now, losing 1 and drawing 1 with no goals scored
In Giravanz Kitakyushu’s last 5 away games, they’ve won 4 and drawn 1
J2 Matchweek 20:
Montedio Yamagata – Giravanz Kitakyushu:
H2H:
8 meetings between the 2 teams
Montedio Yamagata won 5, Giravanz Kitakyushu won 3
Montedio Yamagata have scored a total of 9 goals and Giravanz Kitakyushu have scored a total of 3 goals
Up Kitakyushu they will bring back Japanese top flight football for the first time in 40 years !