📊 Form Guide

Shimizu S-Pulse

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Shimizu S-Pulse head into this match following on from a 1-1 J1 League draw against Nagoya Grampus.

In that match, Shimizu S-Pulse had 55% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Shimizu S-Pulse was Kanta Chiba (88'). Nagoya Grampus had 9 shots at goal with 2 on target. Yuya Yamagishi (64') scored for Nagoya Grampus.

It has been seldom in recent games that Shimizu S-Pulse have kept a clean sheet. The reality is that Shimizu S-Pulse have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 10 goals during that time. We shall soon see whether or not that trend will be continued on into this next match.

Taking a look at their past results, Shimizu S-Pulse:

• have not emerged victorious against Kashiwa Reysol in their last 4 matches in the league.
• are unbeaten in their last 3 league matches at home.

Kashiwa Reysol

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In the game prior to this, Kashiwa Reysol drew 3-3 in the J1 League match with Kyoto Sanga.

In that match, Kashiwa Reysol had 65% possession and 19 shots at goal with 9 on target. For Kashiwa Reysol, the goalscorers were Yoshio Koizumi (19'), Yuki Kakita (31') and Wataru Harada (74'). Kyoto Sanga got 10 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Takuji Yonemoto (24'), Shun Nagasawa (54') and Sota Kawasaki (84') scored for Kyoto Sanga.

Showing their bias toward eventful matches, goals have been scored 21 times in the last 6 games in which Kashiwa Reysol have played, making it an average of 3.5 goals per clash. Opposition teams have hit 8 of those goals.

Their previous form shows that Kashiwa Reysol:

• remain undefeated by Shimizu S-Pulse when they've played them away from home in the last 3 league games.
• are unbeaten in their last 2 league matches away from home.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A look at their most recent head to head clashes dating back to 31/10/2020 tells us that Shimizu S-Pulse have won 1 of these & Kashiwa Reysol 3, with the tally of drawn matches being 2.

A sum of 11 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 4 of them from Shimizu and 7 being from Reysol. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 1.83.

The previous league game featuring these clubs was J1 League match day 15 on 06/05/2025 which ended up with the score at Kashiwa Reysol 1-0 Shimizu S-Pulse.

On that occasion, Kashiwa Reysol had 59% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target. The scorer was Yuki Kakita (52').

For their opponents, Shimizu S-Pulse had 15 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Shu Kawamata.

📋 Team News: Shimizu S-Pulse

It’s a low absenteeism rate, with just the lone fitness concern for the Shimizu S-Pulse manager Tadahiro Akiba to be concerned with from a near full-strength group of players. Yuji Takahashi (Cruciate ligament injury) is sidelined.

It seems likely that Shimizu S-Pulse will probably kick off with a 4-2-3-1 system this time, utilising Yuya Oki, Haruto Hidaka, Jelani Sumiyoshi, Sodai Hasukawa, Mateus Brunetti, Zento Uno, Matheus Bueno, Kai Matsuzaki, Takashi Inui, Capixaba and Koya Kitagawa.

📰 Team News: Kashiwa Reysol

Kashiwa Reysol manager Ricardo Rodríguez has multiple availability issues to deal with. Koki Kumasaka (Cruciate ligament injury), Kohei Tezuka (Cruciate ligament injury) and Riki Harakawa (unknown injury) can’t be considered.

We reckon that Kashiwa Reysol seem most likely to begin the game with a 3-4-2-1 system, starting the game with Ryosuke Kojima, Wataru Harada, Taiyo Koga, Hiromu Mitsumaru, Tojiro Kubo, Sachiro Toshima, Nobuteru Nakagawa, Tomoya Koyamatsu, Yoshio Koizumi, Masaki Watai and Yuki Kakita.

✨ Prediction

We think that Shimizu S-Pulse might have a difficult job to breach the defence of this Kashiwa Reysol side who we reckon will get the win and a maybe even keep a clean sheet as well.

We’re therefore anticipating a very competitive encounter with a 0-1 win for Kashiwa Reysol when all is said and done.

We’ll see what happens.

Peter Guest, 09:04 28/06/2025