📏 Form Guide

FC Tokyo

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FC Tokyo, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after a 0-3 J1 League triumph versus Yokohama F. Marinos.

In that match, FC Tokyo had 38% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. For FC Tokyo, goals were scored by Leon Nozawa (51'), Kein Sato (68') and Motoki Nagakura (84'). Yokohama F. Marinos had 8 shots on goal with 2 on target.

It has not been often in recent times that FC Tokyo have shown defensive steel. In fact, FC Tokyo have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 matches, shipping 11 goals along the way. We will just have to see if that trend can be sustained here.

Going into this contest, FC Tokyo have not won at home in their last 2 league matches.

Yokohama FC

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After a loss in their previous game against Sanfrecce Hiroshima in J1 League action, Yokohama FC and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that match, Yokohama FC had 59% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 0 of them on target. On the other side, Sanfrecce Hiroshima got 12 attempts on goal with 7 on target. Kosuke Kinoshita (17', 75'), Mutsuki Kato (23') and Naoto Arai (40') scored for Sanfrecce Hiroshima.

The stats don’t lie, and Yokohama FC have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, conceding 12 goals in total. Defensively, Yokohama FC can certainly do much better.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A review of their most recent head to head clashes stretching back to 18/10/2020 tells us that FC Tokyo have won 4 of these games & Yokohama FC 2, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 0.

A combined sum of 12 goals were shared by the two clubs throughout the course of those matches, with 9 from FC Tokyo and 3 belonging to Yokohama. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.

The previous league contest featuring the two was J1 League match day 1 on 15/02/2025 which ended up with the score at Yokohama FC 0-1 FC Tokyo.

On that occasion, Yokohama FC had 51% possession and 14 shots on goal with 4 on target.

For their opponents, FC Tokyo had 7 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target. Kosuke Shirai (61') was the scorer.

The referee was Atsushi Kamimura.

📰 Team News: FC Tokyo

Seung-gyu Kim (Cruciate ligament tear), Henrique Trevisan (Calf injury) and Tsuyoshi Ogashiwa (Acromioclavicular joint dislocation) are not available for FC Tokyo manager Rikizo Matsuhashi.

We think that FC Tokyo could make use of the 4-4-2 formation for this game with Kota Sanada, Yuto Suzuki, Kazunari Ono, Junnosuke Suzuki, Akimi Barada, Tomoya Fujii, Kosuke Onose, Taiyo Hiraoka, Taiga Hata, Akito Suzuki and Sho Fukuda.

🗞️ Team News: Yokohama FC

Yokohama FC manager Shuhei Yomoda has not got a full squad to pick from. Tsubasa Shibuya (Acromioclavicular joint dislocation) and João Paulo (Tibia and fibula fracture) can’t be considered.

We are inclined to think that Yokohama FC will likely begin the game with a 4-2-1-3 formation with a starting lineup of Il-Kyu Park, Ren Kato, Thomas Deng, Taiki Watanabe, Toichi Suzuki, Kota Watanabe, Riku Yamane, Jun Amano, Yan, Anderson Lopes and Jose Elber.

💭 Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Yokohama FC may well find it hard to put one past this FC Tokyo lineup who we think will manage to score & go ahead.

With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a good tussle with a 1-0 win for FC Tokyo at the conclusion of the game.

Should be a close one.

Victor Martins, 09:04 28/06/2025