📊 Form Guide

Kashima Antlers

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Kashima Antlers, buoyed by their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 0-1 J. League Cup victory vs Tochigi City.

The only scorer from Kashima Antlers was Kimito Nono (68').

Kashima Antlers haven’t had any problems with scoring, hitting the target every time they’ve gone out to play in their last 6 matches.

They’ve claimed a sum of 13 during that period while seeing the number of goals scored against them stand at 3. It will be interesting to see whether or not that trend will be sustained here.

Coming into this fixture, Kashima Antlers haven't been defeated in their previous 26 league matches at home. What a fantastic run.

Vissel Kobe

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Vissel Kobe go into this match following a 1-2 J1 League win vs Shonan Bellmare in their last fixture.

The only name on the scoresheet from Vissel Kobe was Erik (24', 37'). Lukian (51') scored for Shonan Bellmare.

The stats tell the story, and Vissel Kobe have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing their opponents hit 8 goals in total. At the back, Vissel Kobe could really do with shoring things up.

Going into this encounter, Vissel Kobe are unbeaten in their previous 8 league matches away from home. Travelling very well.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at their past head to head clashes dating back to 11/03/2022 shows us that Kashima Antlers have won 2 of these games and Vissel Kobe 3, with the tally of draws standing at 1.

In all, 19 goals were produced between them in this period, with 7 of them from Antlers and 12 netted by Ushi. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.17.

The previous league clash featuring these sides was J1 League match day 21 on 30/06/2024 when it finished Vissel Kobe 3-1 Kashima Antlers.

That day, Vissel Kobe managed 53% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 7 of them on target. The goals were scored by Yoshinori Muto (17'), Thuler (38') and Yuya Osako (62').

Kashima Antlers got 8 attempts at goal with 2 on target. Aleksandar Čavrić (8') scored.

The match was refereed by Takafumi Mikuriya.

🗞️ Team News: Vissel Kobe

Vissel Kobe boss Takayuki Yoshida has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Klismahn (unknown injury) and Gotoku Sakai (Strain in the thigh and gluteal muscles) will not be playing here.

🧠 Prediction

Our assessment is that Vissel Kobe and Kashima Antlers should both get enough opportunities to score, although it’s hard to separate the two.

Let’s see how this one goes, but it looks this could be a draw. That’s why we have predicted a tight encounter, finishing with a 1-1 draw at the end of the 90 minutes.

Renata Leite, 05:03 29/03/2025