📏 Form Guide

Shimizu S-Pulse

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Shimizu S-Pulse will be wanting a better result here following the 2-1 J. League Cup defeat in their last game at the hands of Júbilo Iwata.

The only name on the scoresheet from Shimizu S-Pulse was Ahmed Ahmedov (1'). Ikki Kawasaki (53') and Ricardo Graça (80') scored for Júbilo Iwata.

At least three goals per match have been seen in 5 of the past 6 fixtures where Shimizu S-Pulse have played. Their opponents scored 9 times in this period whereas Shimizu S-Pulse managed to get a total of 9. We will find out whether or not that trend can be sustained into this next match.

Coming into this contest, Shimizu S-Pulse have not won against Kawasaki Frontale in their last 13 league matches. What a terrible run without a win that has been.

Kawasaki Frontale

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Last time out, Kawasaki Frontale drew 3-3 in the J1 League tie with Yokohama F. Marinos.

In that game, Kawasaki Frontale had 41% possession and 10 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. For Kawasaki Frontale, the goalscorers were Yuto Ozeki (7'), Cesar Haydar (66') and Kota Takai (99'). On the other side, Yokohama F. Marinos had 16 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Yan Matheus (41', 92') and Jun Amano (89') scored for Yokohama F. Marinos.

During their six previous matches, Shigetoshi Hasebe's Kawasaki Frontale have seen their efforts on goal rewarded a total of 13 times, giving them the goals scored per game average of 2.17.

Taking a look at their past results, Kawasaki Frontale:

• have not lost to Shimizu S-Pulse when they've played them away from home in the last 6 league matches. A very decent away record against them.
• are undefeated in their previous 9 league matches away from home. Travelling very well.

↔️ Head to head

An examination of their prior head-to-head meetings stretching back to 17/07/2021 tells us that Shimizu S-Pulse have won 1 of them and Kawasaki Frontale 5, with the tally of draws being 0.

A combined sum of 21 goals were scored between them in these games, with 5 from Shimizu and 16 being from Frontale. That is an average goals per game value of 3.5.

The previous league game between these sides was J. League Cup match day 4 on 19/04/2023 which ended up with the score at Kawasaki Frontale 6-0 Shimizu S-Pulse.

🗞️ Team News: Shimizu S-Pulse

It’s a low absenteeism rate, with just a single fitness concern for the Shimizu S-Pulse manager Tadahiro Akiba to be concerned about from a near full-strength squad. Sena Saito (Meniscus injury) misses out.

We are thinking that Shimizu S-Pulse should employ a 4-2-3-1 system this time, utilising Yuya Oki, Kengo Kitazume, Jelani Sumiyoshi, Yuji Takahashi, Yutaka Yoshida, Zento Uno, Matheus Bueno, Kai Matsuzaki, Takashi Inui, Shinya Yajima and Koya Kitagawa.

📰 Team News: Kawasaki Frontale

Kawasaki Frontale boss Shigetoshi Hasebe has multiple availability issues to deal with. Geun-hyeong Lee (Meniscus tear), Jesiel (Hamstring injury), Shintaro Kurumaya (Adductor injury) and Yu Kobayashi (Acromioclavicular joint dislocation) are not able to play.

We believe Kawasaki Frontale might begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 formation, going with Louis Yamaguchi, Asahi Sasaki, Kota Takai, Yuichi Maruyama, Sota Miura, So Kawahara, Yuki Yamamoto, Akihiro Ienaga, Yasuto Wakizaka, Marcinho and Erison.

✨ Prediction

We’re envisaging that Shimizu S-Pulse might have a difficult job to find the net against this Kawasaki Frontale lineup who we reckon will end up scoring and possibly keep a clean sheet as well.

We’ve gone for a very even match with a 0-1 winning margin for Kawasaki Frontale at the end of this one.

Will be interesting to see how this one goes.

Renata Leite, 04:06 12/04/2025