📊 Form Guide

Kashiwa Reysol

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Kashiwa Reysol will be hoping for a repeat of their last result, following a 0-2 J1 League success over Urawa Red Diamonds.

In that match, Kashiwa Reysol had 51% possession and 5 shots on goal with 3 on target. For Kashiwa Reysol, the goals were scored by Tomoya Koyamatsu (14') and Yuki Kakita (31'). Urawa Red Diamonds had 14 attempts at goal with 5 on target.

Under three goals per match were seen in 5 of the past 6 meetings where Kashiwa Reysol have been involved. With regard to the goal distribution in this period, opposing sides scored a total of 4 and Kashiwa Reysol managed the sum of 7.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Kashiwa Reysol:

• haven't beaten Kashima Antlers in their previous 3 league games.
• are undefeated in their previous 6 home league matches.

Kashima Antlers

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Kashima Antlers will come into the encounter following a 2-0 J1 League win vs FC Tokyo in their previous match.

In that match, Kashima Antlers had 41% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 7 on target. For Kashima Antlers, the goalscorers were Yuma Suzuki (74') and Shu Morooka (91'). For their opponents, FC Tokyo had 12 attempts at goal with 1 on target.

A sequence of very capable showings by the Kashima Antlers defence has resulted in their ‘goals against’ tally standing at 3 from their past 6 outings in total. In that period, their own attack force has managed to score 13. Nonetheless, time will tell if such a trend shall continue on here in this game or not.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their past head-to-head clashes going back to 08/03/2023 tells us that Kashiwa Reysol have won 1 of these games and Kashima Antlers 2, with the tally of drawn results standing at 3.

An aggregate of 9 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 4 of them for Reysol and 5 netted by Antlers. The average number of goals per game works out to 1.5.

The previous league match between these sides was J1 League match day 31 on 21/09/2024 when it finished Kashima Antlers 0-0 Kashiwa Reysol.

In that game, Kashima Antlers managed 56% possession and 12 shots on goal with 3 on target.

Kashiwa Reysol had 8 shots on goal with 2 of them on target.

The referee was Koichiro Fukushima.

ℹ️ Team News: Kashiwa Reysol

Availability isn’t a big problem, with just one fitness concern for the Kashiwa Reysol manager Ricardo Rodríguez to be concerned with due to a largely intact group of players. Tomoya Inukai (Broken collarbone) will miss out.

💡 Prediction

Our thinking is that Kashima Antlers and Kashiwa Reysol may well end up cancelling each other out here.

Let’s see how this one goes, but it looks this could be a draw. We’re therefore seeing a tight encounter, finishing with a 1-1 score at full-time.

Peter Guest, 06:03 08/03/2025