Kashima Antlers vs Oita Trinita Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Kashima Antlers

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Kashima Antlers will be hoping for a repeat of their last result, following the 1-0 J1 League victory over Urawa Red Diamonds.

In that match, Kashima Antlers managed 42% possession and 22 shots on goal with 7 on target. The only player to score for Kashima Antlers was Shoma Doi (36'). For their opponents, Urawa Red Diamonds got 8 attempts at goal with 1 on target.

Kashima Antlers haven’t had any problems with scoring, finding the back of the net in one hundred percent of their last 6 matches.

They have hit an aggregate of 11 during that time and have conceded a total of 7. That sort of trend won’t necessarily be carried forward into this game, however.

Coming into this meeting, Kashima Antlers have not registered a win against Oita Trinita in their last 2 league matches.

Oita Trinita

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Following on from being defeated in their last game at the hands of Gamba Osaka in J1 League competition, Oita Trinita and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that game, Oita Trinita managed 59% possession and 15 attempts on goal with 3 on target. The scorer for Oita Trinita was Hiroto Goya (39'). Gamba Osaka got 18 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. Hiroki Fujiharu (28' Own goal) and Patric (29', 53', 84') scored for Gamba Osaka.

Over the course of 5 of the past six games featuring Oita Trinita, a comparatively low number of goals have been hit between them and their opponents. The overall average goals scored per game in that spell comes to a meagre 2, with the average goals for Oita being 1.

Taking a look at their past results, Oita Trinita:

• have not lost to Kashima Antlers in away games against them for the last 2 league matches.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 16 league games. They clearly need to do something about it.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at their prior head-to-head clashes stretching back to 28/09/2013 shows that Kashima Antlers have won 3 of these games & Oita Trinita 2, with the number of drawn games being 1.

A total of 15 goals were shared by the two clubs throughout the course of those matches, with 9 for Antlers and 6 coming from Oita. That’s an average goals per game of 2.5.

The previous league meeting featuring these clubs was J1 League match day 19 on 23/06/2021 when the final score was Oita Trinita 0-0 Kashima Antlers.

The match was refereed by Akihiko Ikeuchi.

📰 Team News: Kashima Antlers

The Kashima Antlers manager Naoki Soma does not have any fitness concerns to speak of before this game with a completely injury-free squad available to select from.

📋 Team News: Oita Trinita

Thanks to a fully healthy group available to select from, the Oita Trinita boss Tomohiro Katanosaka does not have any fitness worries to speak of ahead of this clash.

💭 Prediction

Our feeling is that Kashima Antlers are likely to dominate on the ball and be rewarded with decent chances.

At the same time, Oita Trinita may well find it hard to find the back of the net but we can see them converting at least once here, too.

Therefore, we are anticipating a comfortable 3-1 victory for Kashima Antlers when all’s said and done.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 01:24 16/11/2021