Sanfrecce Hiroshima vs Albirex Niigata Live Stream, Predictions (Apr 29)

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Sanfrecce Hiroshima

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Sanfrecce Hiroshima will be looking for an improved result here after a 1-0 J1 League defeat in their last game at the hands of Urawa Red Diamonds.

In that match, Sanfrecce Hiroshima managed 54% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 2 on target. At the other end, Urawa Red Diamonds had 9 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Takuro Kaneko (57') scored for Urawa Red Diamonds.

Sanfrecce Hiroshima have struggled with their forward play of late. Their sum of goals equals just 4 versus opponents during their previous 6 matches. In those meetings, Sanfrecce Hiroshima have also seen the number of goals against them total 6. It will be interesting to see if that trend can be continued on into this next match.

Their prior results show that Sanfrecce Hiroshima:

• have not lost a league tie with Albirex Niigata in their last 2 matches.
• have not emerged victorious against Albirex Niigata in their previous 6 league matches.

Albirex Niigata

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In their previous fixture, Albirex Niigata drew 1-1 in the J1 League tie with Kashiwa Reysol.

A run of accomplished showings by the Albirex Niigata defenders has seen the number of goals they’ve conceded amounting to 4 from their previous 6 clashes overall. In that time, the number of goals that they have scored themselves is 5.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Albirex Niigata:

• are undefeated by Sanfrecce Hiroshima in away games against them for the last 3 league games.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 2 away league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at their prior head-to-head clashes stretching back to 25/02/2017 tells us that Sanfrecce Hiroshima have won 0 of them & Albirex Niigata 2, with the tally of draws being 4.

A sum of 11 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 4 from Sanfrecce and 7 coming from Albirex. That is an average goals per game value of 1.83.

The last league contest between these clubs was J1 League match day 20 on 26/06/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Sanfrecce Hiroshima 1-1 Albirex Niigata.

In that game, Sanfrecce Hiroshima had 37% possession and 23 shots at goal with 7 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Pieros Sotiriou (27').

Albirex Niigata had 7 shots on goal with 1 on target. Kaito Taniguchi (11') was the scorer.

The referee was Futoshi Nakamura.

🗞️ Team News: Sanfrecce Hiroshima

Goro Kawanami (Hand injury) and Tolgay Arslan (Knee injury) won’t be able to feature for Sanfrecce Hiroshima boss Michael Skibbe.

💭 Prediction

We envisage that Sanfrecce Hiroshima should have the majority of the possession and should be able to turn a few of their chances into goals.

In contrast, Albirex Niigata may well find it hard to get shooting opportunities but we do think it’s quite likely that they will be converting at least once as well.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a pretty comfortable 3-1 winning score for Sanfrecce Hiroshima at full-time.

Peter Guest, 16:10 26/04/2025