📏 Form Guide

Kawasaki Frontale

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Kawasaki Frontale will be wanting a better result here after a 2-1 J1 League defeat in their last game at the hands of Kashima Antlers.

In that match, Kawasaki Frontale had 56% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 3 on target. The only player to score for Kawasaki Frontale was Marcinho (36'). Kashima Antlers got 12 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Aleksandar Čavrić (47') and Yuma Suzuki (50') scored for Kashima Antlers.

Matches with Kawasaki Frontale have proved to be exciting affairs recently with plenty of scoring being the norm. Over their past half dozen clashes, the sum of 23 goals have flown in for both sides combined (at an average of 3.83 goals per game) with 10 of those being chalked up by Kawasaki Frontale.

Heading into this fixture, Kawasaki Frontale are without a home win in the past 2 league games.

FC Tokyo

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FC Tokyo head into the match after a 1-3 J1 League win to defeat Avispa Fukuoka in their last fixture.

In that match, FC Tokyo had 56% possession and 11 shots on goal with 3 on target. For FC Tokyo, goals were scored by Yūto Nagatomo (28'), Ryotaro Araki (32') and Kashif Bangnagande (57'). Avispa Fukuoka got 15 shots at goal with 4 on target. Daiki Matsuoka (82') was the scorer for Avispa Fukuoka.

FC Tokyo have been good when going forward leading up to this encounter, scoring 9 times in their last 6 matches. This doesn’t mask the fact that FC Tokyo have been somewhat leaky at the back, having also been scored against in 5 of those same outings. Even so, we’ll just have to find out whether that pattern might be maintained here in this match or not.

Analysis of their past results shows that FC Tokyo:

• haven't beaten Kawasaki Frontale in games played away from home for the previous 5 league games. Not the best of away records.
• are unbeaten in their last 4 league matches away from home.

↔️ Head to head

An examination of their past head-to-head clashes going back to 11/04/2021 tells us that Kawasaki Frontale have won 5 of these and FC Tokyo 1, with the number of draws standing at 0.

A sum of 17 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 11 for Frontale and 6 coming from FC Tokyo. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.83.

The last league match featuring these sides was J1 League match day 27 on 15/09/2023 and the score finished Kawasaki Frontale 1-0 FC Tokyo.

That day, Kawasaki Frontale managed 58% possession and 18 attempts at goal with 6 on target. Their only player to score was Marcinho (54').

FC Tokyo got 10 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Akihiko Ikeuchi.

🗞️ Team News: Kawasaki Frontale

Ten Miyagi (Meniscus tear), Ryota Oshima (Calf strain), Shintaro Kurumaya (Meniscus injury) and Bafétimbi Gomis (Hamstring injury) are unavailable for Kawasaki Frontale boss Tōru Oniki. Marcinho cannot play in this game through suspension.

📰 Team News: FC Tokyo

FC Tokyo manager Peter Cklamovski has to choose a team with limited availability. Keita Yamashita (Meniscus damage), Keigo Higashi (Hamstring injury) and Renta Higashi (Cruciate ligament surgery) won’t be making appearances.

💭 Prediction

Here, we’re thinking that FC Tokyo could find themselves up against it to register a score against this Kawasaki Frontale side who we think might well manage to score & go ahead.

We’re therefore tipping a hard-fought contest, finishing with a 1-0 victory for Kawasaki Frontale at the end of the 90.

Let’s see what happens.

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Renata Leite, 05:10 30/03/2024