📏 Form Guide

Shonan Bellmare

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Shonan Bellmare will be hoping to bounce back here after the 1-0 J. League Cup defeat last time out to Júbilo Iwata.

Rikiya Uehara (78') was the scorer for Júbilo Iwata.

Under three goals per match were seen in 5 of the past 6 meetings where Shonan Bellmare have taken part. In terms of the goal attribution from this period, opposing sides scored an aggregate of 5 and Shonan Bellmare managed a tally of 5.

Ahead of this meeting, Shonan Bellmare are without a win at home for the past 5 matches in the league. Things will have to change soon.

Machida Zelvia

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Since being beaten in their last game against Yokohama F. Marinos in J1 League competition, Machida Zelvia and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that match, Machida Zelvia had 56% possession and 16 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. The only player to score for Machida Zelvia was Hiroyuki Mae (94' Own goal). Yokohama F. Marinos got 6 shots on goal with 3 on target. Daiya Tono (23', 27') was the scorer for Yokohama F. Marinos.

In as many as 5 out of the previous 6 games featuring Machida Zelvia, at least three goals have been struck. The average goals scored per game in that spell is 3.17, with the average number of goals for Machida Zelvia being 1.5. In any event, we will just have to wait and see if that pattern shall persist in this match or not.

Leading up to this clash, Machida Zelvia:

• are undefeated by Shonan Bellmare in away games against them for the last 2 league matches.
• are unbeaten in their last 2 league matches away from home.
• have not won away from home in their last 3 league games.

👥 Head to head

Looking over their most recent head-to-head meetings stretching back to 11/11/2012 shows us that Shonan Bellmare have won 3 of these & Machida Zelvia 0, with the tally of drawn matches being 3.

A combined total of 7 goals were scored between them in this period, with 6 of them for Shonan and 1 being from Machida. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 1.17.

The last league match between the two was J1 League match day 12 on 25/04/2025 when the final score was Machida Zelvia 0-1 Shonan Bellmare.

On that day, Machida Zelvia managed 39% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 4 on target.

On the other side, Shonan Bellmare got 10 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Masaki Ikeda (93') scored.

The match was refereed by Futoshi Nakamura.

ℹ️ Team News: Shonan Bellmare

Zé Ricardo (Inflammation in the knee), Tatsunari Nagai (Calf injury), Soki Tamura (Hamstring injury), Kanaru Matsumoto (Cruciate ligament injury) and Sena Ishibashi (Ankle ligament tear) are unavailable for Shonan Bellmare gaffer Satoshi Yamaguchi.

📋 Team News: Machida Zelvia

From a largely full-strength squad, there is only the lone fitness problem for the Machida Zelvia gaffer Go Kuroda to be concerned with. Takumi Narasaka (Cruciate ligament injury) won’t be playing here.

✨ Prediction

We’re envisaging that Shonan Bellmare will need to push hard to see themselves scoring against this Machida Zelvia team who we think might manage to get a goal of their own in a winning performance.

We’re going for a highly competitive game with a 0-1 win for Machida Zelvia at the end of this one.

Let’s see.

Peter Guest, 08:02 14/06/2025