In this week 22 match on Jul 16th, Shonan Bellmare hosts Avispa Fukuoka in a meeting of these two J-League teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy but warm day with daytime temperatures of 24 degrees, which is great football weather. In their last match, Shonan Bellmare recorded a 1-1 draw against Sanfrecce Hiroshima. Masaki Ikeda struck first for Shonan Bellmare in the 52nd minute on a feed from Ryo Takahashi, but Yuki Nogami got the equalizer for Sanfrecce Hiroshima in the 67th minute squeezing out at least the one point for Sanfrecce Hiroshima. With 18 points in their last 10 matches Shonan Bellmare should be reasonably happy with their performance, while avispa Fukuoka sits at 10th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 1-0 shutout win against Kyoto Sanga. Yuya Yamagishi scored the first goal for Avispa Fukuoka in the 6th minute, and that single goal was all that was necessary as neither team could manage any more scoring In the end, Kyoto Sanga couldn’t muster any offence and Avispa Fukuoka ran away with the shutout win. Avispa Fukuoka is looking for direction having earned 12 points in their last 10 matches.
On May 7th, Avispa Fukuoka hosted Shonan Bellmare in their last match together. Avispa Fukuoka and Shonan Bellmare battled to a 0-0 draw. Neither Avispa Fukuoka nor Shonan Bellmare could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 6 and 3 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a scoreless draw,.
Yamagishi has been the most prolific scorer on Avispa Fukuoka in the last 5 matches with 3 goals. Both Shuto Machino and Masaki Ikeda have been the hottest scorers for Shonan Bellmare in the last five each having scored 2 goals.