Machida vs Ehime Predictions & Betting Tips

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Machida and Ehime have alternated impressive victories with disheartening defeats against weaker opponents. Lack of consistency has caused them to plunge in the standings and they need to improve their performance quickly. A direct match should be an excellent opportunity to achieve precisely that.

Team News and Probable Lineups

Machida is a strong traveling team, with a propensity for scoring goals early on. In front of its fans, it has a hard time winning games even against weaker opponents such as Ehime. Their strength consists in the fact that they have a potent midfield, with Hirato and Hasegawa as their top scorers.

Kawamura and Fujimoto are Ehime’s best chance of scoring, as they have more than half of all the team’s points.

Form Guide and Head-to-Head Results

Machida secured some impressive victories on the road, but they continue to struggle at home, in the Japan J2 League.

  • One would have to scroll a long way back until April to find them winning consecutive games.
  • Back-to-back victories in front of the fans have been even rarer, but they hope to start a new series on Sunday.
  • They lost the last home game against this opponent in 2020, after conceding in the last minutes of the match.

Ehime is no stranger to allowing early goals and then trying to recover.

  • They are also completely out of form and haven’t won consecutive matches for two months.
  • They managed to pick up all three points in the last match played on the road, so they are optimistic ahead of this fixture.
  • The head to head record doesn’t look all that bad, with only one of the last nine direct matches resulting in a draw.

Odds and Betting Tip

Machida are expected to prevail in this fixture and improve their home record, despite recent struggles. We are not particularly impressed with the odds of 1.85 offered by bookmakers on the home side to prevail. 4.40 on the visitors is definitely more tempting, but Ehime didn’t give punters too many reasons to trust them on the road. We believe that a draw is overdue.

Our prediction: Draw at 3.30

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