Sagan Tosu vs Kashima Antlers Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Sagan Tosu

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Sagan Tosu will be hoping to return to winning ways here following a 2-1 J1 League losing effort in their last game against Gamba Osaka.

In that game, Sagan Tosu managed 33% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. The scorer for Sagan Tosu was Yoichi Naganuma (41'). Gamba Osaka got 28 attempts on goal with 10 of them on target. Isa Sakamoto (45') and Genta Miura (99') scored for Gamba Osaka.

Sagan Tosu have struggled with their forward play in more recent games. Their goals record equals just 2 against opposition teams during the course of their previous six matches. In those games, Sagan Tosu have also seen the number of goals scored against them total 14. That kind of pattern might not be sustained into this match, though.

A look at their previous results shows us that Sagan Tosu:

• have not emerged victorious against Kashima Antlers in their last 5 matches in the league.
• are without a win at home for the past 2 matches in the league.

Kashima Antlers

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Kashima Antlers will come into the game after a 1-2 J. League Cup win with the downing of Vanraure Hachinohe in their most recent match.

For Kashima Antlers, the scorers were Koki Anzai (82') and Kei Chinen (108'). Kashima Antlers ran out winners in extra time.

In 5 of the prior six games featuring Kashima Antlers, a notably low volume of goals have gone in between them and their opposition. The overall average goals scored per game within that spell works out to a mere 1.67, with the average goals for Antlers being 0.83.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Kashima Antlers:

• are winless against Sagan Tosu when they have played them away from home in the previous 3 matches in the league.
• remain undefeated by Sagan Tosu when they've played them away from home in the last 2 matches in the league.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 3 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their past head to head meetings stretching back to 22/05/2021 shows that Sagan Tosu have won 1 of these games & Kashima Antlers 2, with the number of drawn results standing at 3.

In all, 21 goals were scored between them in this period, with 10 for Sagan Tosu and 11 being from Antlers. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.5.

The last league clash between these sides was J1 League match day 24 on 19/08/2023 when it ended Kashima Antlers 2-1 Sagan Tosu.

On that day, Kashima Antlers managed 44% possession and 12 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. The goals were scored by Yuta Higuchi (26') and Kei Chinen (80').

For their opponents, Sagan Tosu got 11 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Yoshiki Narahara (66') scored.

The referee was Ryo Tanimoto.

🗞️ Team News: Sagan Tosu

Fuchi Honda (Tear of the lateral meniscus) and Yoshiki Narahara (Cruciate ligament injury) are unavailable for Sagan Tosu manager Kenta Kawai. Keisuke Sakaiya cannot play in this game through suspension.

🗞️ Team News: Kashima Antlers

Thanks to a completely healthy group available for selection, the Kashima Antlers boss Ranko Popović has zero fitness concerns to report ahead of this clash.

⚡ Prediction

Here, we’re thinking that Sagan Tosu will need to put in a solid display to get anything against this Kashima Antlers side who should score & stay on top.

Therefore, we predict a very even contest with a 0-1 victory for Kashima Antlers when all is said and done.

It should be a good one.

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Andre Moura, 20:09 19/04/2024