📏 Form Guide

Tokushima Vortis

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Tokushima Vortis will play in this fixture following a 1-1 J2 League draw vs Shimizu S-Pulse.

The only player to score from Tokushima Vortis was Akito Tanahashi (92'). Lucas Braga (6') scored for Shimizu S-Pulse.

It has been all too rare in recent games that Tokushima Vortis have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. In fact, Tokushima Vortis have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 games, letting in 10 goals during that time. Despite that, it remains to be seen if that pattern might be replicated in this match.

Pre-game facts show that Tokushima Vortis:

• have not been beaten in the league by JEF United Chiba in their previous 8 games. A decent run, indeed.
• haven't beaten JEF United Chiba in their last 3 league games.
• are without a home win in the past 8 league games. No joy for the home fans.

JEF United Chiba

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JEF United Chiba come into this match following a 8-0 J2 League win with the defeat of Tochigi S.C. in their previous outing.

For JEF United Chiba, goals were scored by Hiiro Komori (3'), Daisuke Suzuki (35', 56'), Naoki Tsubaki (42'), Issei Takahashi (50'), Dudú (59', 74') and Shuto Okaniwa (76').

Showing their bias toward eventful matches, goals have been seen as many as 23 times in the last six matches in which JEF United Chiba have taken to the field, yielding a mean average of 3.83 goals per meeting. Opposition teams have got 9 of these goals.

Looking at the pre-match facts, JEF United Chiba:

• have not beaten Tokushima Vortis in away games against them for the last 5 matches in the league. Not the best of away records.
• are without an away win for the past 3 league games.

↔️ Head to head

A review of their prior head-to-head meetings going back to 23/08/2020 shows that Tokushima Vortis have won 2 of these & JEF United Chiba 0, with the tally of drawn results standing at 4.

A combined total of 14 goals were shared by the two clubs throughout the course of those matches, with 8 for Tokushima and 6 created by JEF Utd. The average goals per game has been 2.33.

The last league encounter featuring these sides was J2 League match day 29 on 06/08/2023 which ended up with the score at Tokushima Vortis 3-3 JEF United Chiba.

The referee was Hiroyoshi Takayama.

ℹ️ Team News: Tokushima Vortis

Nearly everyone is up for selection, with just the sole fitness concern for the Tokushima Vortis gaffer Tatsuma Yoshida to contend with due to a largely intact group of players. Kohei Uchida (Hamstring injury) is sidelined.

ℹ️ Team News: JEF United Chiba

From a largely full-strength group, there’s just a single fitness worry for the JEF United Chiba gaffer Yoshiyuki Kobayashi to be concerned with. Soshiro Tanida (Cruciate ligament injury) won’t be playing here.

🔮 Prediction

We believe that Tokushima Vortis will manage to score a goal against this JEF United Chiba lineup, however a single goal may not quite be as many as they’ll concede.

Therefore, we think that it’s going to be a very close game with a 1-2 win for JEF United Chiba at full-time. Hopefully this is a good one.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 04:05 07/04/2024