Kashima Antlers vs Shimizu S-Pulse Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Kashima Antlers

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Kashima Antlers enter this game coming off the back of a 1-1 J1 League drawn game against Cerezo Osaka.

The only scorer from Kashima Antlers was Everaldo Stum (90'). Riku Matsuda (83') was the scorer for Cerezo Osaka.

Kashima Antlers haven’t been able to stop scoring goals, hitting the target in each and every one of their last 6 matches.

They’ve totted up the amount of 12 during that period while seeing the number of goals scored against them stand at 7. Previous results aside, we will just have to wait and see if that pattern will persist in this next match or not.

Shimizu S-Pulse

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Shimizu S-Pulse will go into this game following on from a 0-2 J1 League win to defeat Gamba Osaka in their most recent fixture.

For Shimizu S-Pulse, the goalscorers were Riyo Kawamoto (49') and Shota Kaneko (64').

Looking at their form, and Shimizu S-Pulse have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing their opponents hit 9 goals overall. In defence, Shimizu have seen their frailties exposed.

↔️ Head to head

A review of their past head to head results going back to 25/02/2018 reveals that these encounters have ended in disappointment for Shimizu S-Pulse. They have not been able to come away with any wins whatsoever whereas Kashima Antlers have managed to find a way, beating them in 83% of those games where they have faced each other.

An aggregate of 13 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 12 of them from Antlers and 1 for Shimizu. That is an average goals per game value of 2.17.

The last league meeting between the two was J1 League match day 32 on 12/12/2020 and the score finished Kashima Antlers 2-0 Shimizu S-Pulse.

The referee was Ryuji Sato.

📰 Team News: Kashima Antlers

Kashima Antlers boss Antônio Zago will be thankful to have no fitness worries at all before this game with a completely injury-free squad ready to go.

📋 Team News: Shimizu S-Pulse

Thanks to a largely healthy squad, there is just a single fitness worry for the Shimizu S-Pulse boss Miguel Lotina to be concerned about. Ibrahim Junior Kuribara (Meniscus Damage) misses out for this game.

🧠 Prediction

We feel that Shimizu S-Pulse should be able to break down this Kashima Antlers lineup, although that may not be enough to avoid a loss.

We’re predicting a narrow 2-1 winning score for Kashima Antlers after 90 minutes. It will be interesting to see how this one goes.

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

Renata Leite, 00:24 23/02/2021