2026/2027Who will win?
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| Team | Games | Run | Unbeaten | Winless | Scored in | Conceded in | Last-5 pts | Last-5 goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vegalta Sendai | 15 | D1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 7/15 | 12-10 |
| Imabari | 15 | W1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7/15 | 7-7 |
Computed over each team's finished games before kickoff — see the Games column for the sample behind each row.
Aggregated from 2 finished meetings (2025-04-12 – 2025-11-02) in the GioScore fixtures corpus.
| Date | Home | Score | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-02 | Imabari | 3-2 | Vegalta Sendai |
| 2025-04-12 | Vegalta Sendai | 0-0 | Imabari |
| Team | Pos | Pld | Pts | GD | Form | Form rank | Form vs pos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vegalta Sendai | 3 | 6 | 11 | 4 | DWWWD | 2 | +1 |
| Imabari | 20 | 6 | 4 | -8 | LLLDW | 17 | +3 |
Form rank = league-wide rank by points from the last 5 league games; "Form vs pos" > 0 means over-performing the table.
Figures computed from the GioScore results database · data cutoff: kickoff 2026-10-21
7 points and 17 places separate them: Vegalta Sendai 3rd with 11, Imabari 20th with 4. Against a league average of 1.27 goals per team per game, Vegalta Sendai run at 1.67 scored and 1 conceded, Imabari at 0.83 and 2.17. If Vegalta Sendai win, their total rises to 14 and up to 1st, assuming the rest of the results stand.
The match takes place at Yurtec Stadium Sendai in Sendai (capacity 19,694).
