📏 Form Guide

Kawasaki Frontale

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Kawasaki Frontale will be hoping to bounce back here following the 1-0 J1 100 Year Vision League defeat in their last game at the hands of Kashiwa Reysol.

In that match, Kawasaki Frontale managed 51% possession and 13 shots at goal with 4 on target. On the other side, Kashiwa Reysol got 11 attempts on goal with 2 on target. Mao Hosoya (73') was the scorer for Kashiwa Reysol.

It’s not been often in recent games where Kawasaki Frontale haven’t conceded. It will be a concern for them that Kawasaki Frontale have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 7 goals in the process. Regardless, time will tell if that trend will be replicated in this next match.

Machida Zelvia

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Last time out, Machida Zelvia drew 0-0 in the J1 100 Year Vision League match with Tokyo Verdy.

In that game, Machida Zelvia had 63% possession and 11 shots on goal with 3 on target. Tokyo Verdy had 5 attempts at goal with 0 of them on target. Machida Zelvia won the match 4-2 in a dramatic penalty shootout.

For 5 of the past six clashes involving Machida Zelvia, a comparatively low number of goals have been scored between them and opposing sides. The overall average goals scored per game within that period comes to a mere 1.83, with the number of goals averaged by Machida equalling 1.17.

🤜🤛 Head to head

The last league meeting featuring these clubs was J1 100 Year Vision League match day 5 on 28/03/2026 when it finished Machida Zelvia 1-1 Kawasaki Frontale.

On that day, Machida Zelvia had 47% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Erik (41').

On the other side, Kawasaki Frontale had 9 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. Erison (59') was the scorer.

ℹ️ Team News: Kawasaki Frontale

Yu Kobayashi (Calf injury), Akihiro Ienaga (Calf injury), Hiroto Taniguchi (Hamstring injury), Kazuya Konno (Calf injury) and Shuto Yamaichi (Ill) are unavailable for Kawasaki Frontale gaffer Shigetoshi Hasebe.

🗞️ Team News: Machida Zelvia

Owing to an otherwise full-strength group of players, there is just a single fitness problem for the Machida Zelvia manager Go Kuroda to be concerned about. Ryuho Kikuchi (Cartilage damage) misses out for this game.

🧠 Prediction

Our feeling is that Kawasaki Frontale might well have a job on their hands to put one past this Machida Zelvia outfit who we reckon should manage to score & go ahead.

We’re therefore expecting a good battle with a 0-1 victory for Machida Zelvia at the end of the 90 minutes.

Let’s see how it plays out.

Lucas Pereira, 09:02 17/05/2026