📊 Form Guide

Kashima Antlers

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Kashima Antlers will want to continue from where they left off last time out with the 2-1 J1 League victory vs Kawasaki Frontale.

In that game, Kashima Antlers had 44% possession and 12 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. For Kashima Antlers, the goals were scored by Aleksandar Čavrić (47') and Yuma Suzuki (50'). On the other side, Kawasaki Frontale had 9 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Marcinho (36') was the scorer for Kawasaki Frontale.

It has been seldom in recent games that Kashima Antlers have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. It will be a concern for them that Kashima Antlers have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 games, leaking 7 goals in the process.

Taking a look at their past results, Kashima Antlers:

• haven't lost in the league to Júbilo Iwata in their last 7 matches.
• are undefeated in their last 5 home league matches.

Júbilo Iwata

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After a losing effort in their last game against Gamba Osaka in J1 League action, Júbilo Iwata will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that game, Júbilo Iwata had 53% possession and 16 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. The scorer for Júbilo Iwata was Ryo Germain (60'). For their opponents, Gamba Osaka got 12 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. Takashi Usami (4') and Dawhan (57') scored for Gamba Osaka.

Illustrating their partiality to eventful encounters, the back of the net has been hit 23 times in the last 6 games in which Júbilo Iwata have sent out their troops, yielding a mean average of 3.83 goals for each fixture. Opposition teams have managed 10 from this total. That trend isn’t assured to be continued into this game, of course.

Ahead of this meeting, Júbilo Iwata have left without a victory over Kashima Antlers in away games against them for the last 3 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their most recent head to head clashes dating back to 18/07/2018 tells us that Kashima Antlers have won 2 of these & Júbilo Iwata 0, with the number of drawn results standing at 4.

A lot of goals were also scored during this period, 22 in total at an average of 3.67 goals per meeting.

The previous league match featuring the two was J1 League match day 32 on 08/10/2022 and the score finished Júbilo Iwata 3-3 Kashima Antlers.

That day, Júbilo Iwata managed 39% possession and 15 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. The goalscorers were Yuto Suzuki (31'), Shota Kaneko (33') and Kenyu Sugimoto (45').

At the other end, Kashima Antlers had 16 shots on goal with 6 on target. Yuta Higuchi (10'), Blessing Eleke (47') and Everaldo (93') scored.

The match was refereed by Masuya Ueda.

ℹ️ Team News: Kashima Antlers

The Kashima Antlers manager Ranko Popović will be happy not to have any fitness concerns to speak of ahead of this game owing to a fully injury-free group to pick from.

ℹ️ Team News: Júbilo Iwata

From a largely healthy group of players, there’s only the one fitness issue for the Júbilo Iwata manager Akinobu Yokouchi to be concerned with. Weverton (Hamstring injury) won’t be in action.

💭 Prediction

We feel that Kashima Antlers will most probably get a couple of goals in this one when they line up against Júbilo Iwata, who may well struggle to break down their defence.

We’re tipping a pretty comfortable 2-0 winning margin for Kashima Antlers at full-time.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 05:10 30/03/2024