Yokohama F. Marinos vs Vissel Kobe Live Stream, Predictions (May 21)

📊 Form Guide

Yokohama F. Marinos

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Yokohama F. Marinos won’t want a repeat of their last result here following a 0-3 J1 League losing effort in their last game against Kyoto Sanga.

In that game, Yokohama F. Marinos had 59% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. Kyoto Sanga had 11 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Temma Matsuda (31'), Masaya Okugawa (67') and Shinnosuke Fukuda (81') scored for Kyoto Sanga.

Matches featuring Yokohama F. Marinos have usually been entertaining affairs lately with high scoring expected. Over their past half dozen clashes alone, the sum of 20 goals have gone in for both sides combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 4 of these being chalked up by Yokohama F. Marinos. We will just have to see whether or not that trend will end up being continued on in this game.

Going into this contest, Yokohama F. Marinos haven’t won at home in the past 4 matches in the league. Things will have to change soon.

Vissel Kobe

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Vissel Kobe will go into this game following a 3-2 J1 League win with the downing of Gamba Osaka in their last game.

In that game, Vissel Kobe managed 55% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 8 of them on target. For Vissel Kobe, the goals were scored by Yuya Osako (50', 90') and Erik (59'). On the other side, Gamba Osaka had 11 shots on goal with 5 on target. Shu Kurata (56') and Keisuke Kurokawa (73') scored for Gamba Osaka.

In the course of their 6 most recent matches, Takayuki Yoshida's Vissel Kobe have seen their goal attempts be successful a total of 9 times, earning them the goals per game average of 1.5.

Going into this one, Vissel Kobe remain undefeated by Yokohama F. Marinos in games played away from home for the previous 2 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking out their prior head to head meetings dating back to 18/08/2022, there has been little between the sides with Yokohama F. Marinos winning 3 of those games, Vissel Kobe 3 and 0 being drawn in normal time.

Loads of goals were seen in those games, too - 22 overall which averages out at 3.67 goals per match.

The previous league match between these sides was J1 League match day 26 on 11/08/2024 when it ended Yokohama F. Marinos 1-2 Vissel Kobe.

In that game, Yokohama F. Marinos had 55% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Eduardo (42').

Vissel Kobe got 18 shots on goal with 6 on target. Yoshinori Muto (45', 65') scored.

The referee was Hiroyuki Kimura.

📋 Team News: Yokohama F. Marinos

Reno Noguchi (Hamstring injury) and Takuto Kimura (Cruciate ligament injury) aren’t available for Yokohama F. Marinos gaffer Patrick Kisnorbo.

ℹ️ Team News: Vissel Kobe

From a largely healthy group, there’s only a single fitness problem for the Vissel Kobe boss Takayuki Yoshida to contend with. Klismahn (unknown injury) won’t be in action.

🧠 Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Yokohama F. Marinos could find themselves up against it to get anything against this Vissel Kobe lineup who will likely score at least once to gain the upper hand.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a very competitive encounter with a 0-1 win for Vissel Kobe when the referee blows for full-time.

Will be interesting to see how this one goes.

💵 ⚽️ What are the top odds for the game?

Turning to the betting odds on the full-time result market, staking on Yokohama F. Marinos is available for 3.7, a bet on a drawn result is 3.6 and betting on the win for Vissel Kobe is 1.91. They’re the most competitive market prices offered at the current time.

Lucas Pereira, 19:05 19/05/2025