In this 8th week match, on Sun Apr 10th, Júbilo Iwata and Shonan Bellmare will play a match in Hiratsuka in a meeting of these two closely matched J-League teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 18 degrees, a perfect day for football. In their last match, Shonan Bellmare recorded a 1-2 loss against Nagoya Grampus. Yuki Ohashi scored the first goal for Shonan Bellmare in the 8th minute, then Fukushima tied it up for Nagoya Grampus on an own goal in the 49th minute Finally they completed the comback in the 91st minute on a penalty goal by Hiroyuki Abe to cap off a wild match. Shonan Bellmare looks to improve on their recent performance, having lost 5 of their last 10, while júbilo Iwata sits at 14th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 1-1 draw against Kawasaki Frontale. Kotaro Omori struck first for Júbilo Iwata in the 78th minute, then Kei Chinen tied it up for Kawasaki Frontale in the 4th minute of the second half’s stoppage time earning Kawasaki Frontale a comeback draw. They’re hoping to improve on their recent performance, having lost 3 of their last 10.
This will be the first match for these two teams against eachother this season.
Júbilo Iwata’s top weapon lately has been Yuto Suzuki, who has three goals in the last five matches. Shonan Bellmare is having problems scoring lately. Their top scorers, Shuto Machino and Yusuke Segawa each only have 1 goal in their last five.