📊 Form Guide

Kashiwa Reysol

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Kashiwa Reysol will be looking for another win after the 1-2 J1 League triumph vs Nagoya Grampus.

In that game, Kashiwa Reysol had 50% possession and 11 shots at goal with 3 on target. For Kashiwa Reysol, goals were scored by Yuto Yamada (33') and Mao Hosoya (50'). For their opponents, Nagoya Grampus had 13 shots on goal with 2 on target. Sho Inagaki (2') scored for Nagoya Grampus.

Kashiwa Reysol haven’t been able to stop scoring goals, hitting the target every time they’ve gone out to play in their last 6 games.

They have totted up the amount of 9 during that period while seeing the number of goals scored against them stand at 5. We shall soon see if that trend will be sustained here.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Kashiwa Reysol:

• haven't lost in the league to Shimizu S-Pulse in their previous 3 matches.
• are undefeated in their previous 3 league matches at home.

Shimizu S-Pulse

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After being beaten in their last game against Nagoya Grampus in J1 League action, Shimizu S-Pulse and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that match, Shimizu S-Pulse had 53% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 0 on target. Nagoya Grampus got 11 shots at goal with 4 on target. Sho Inagaki (36'), Ryuji Izumi (48') and Keiya Shiihashi (50') scored for Nagoya Grampus.

The stats don’t lie, and Shimizu S-Pulse have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, conceding 9 goals in total. At the back, Shimizu S-Pulse have seen their frailties exposed.

Going into this contest, Shimizu S-Pulse are undefeated in their last 2 away league matches.

👥 Head to head

Checking on their most recent head to head meetings going back to 05/09/2020 tells us that Kashiwa Reysol have won 3 of these games & Shimizu S-Pulse 1, with the number of drawn results being 2.

An aggregate of 13 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 8 of them for Reysol and 5 for Shimizu. That is an average goals per game value of 2.17.

The previous league match between the two was J1 League match day 26 on 20/08/2022 and the score finished Shimizu S-Pulse 1-1 Kashiwa Reysol.

In that match, Shimizu S-Pulse managed 42% possession and 13 shots at goal with 2 on target. The scorer was Thiago Santana (8').

Kashiwa Reysol got 11 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. Yuki Muto (94') was the scorer.

The referee was Futoshi Nakamura.

ℹ️ Team News: Kashiwa Reysol

There aren’t many personnel worries, with just a single fitness concern for the Kashiwa Reysol boss Ricardo Rodríguez to be concerned about thanks to an almost full-strength group of players. Daiki Sugioka (Hamstring injury) misses out.

In our view, Kashiwa Reysol look set to use the 4-4-2 formation for the game with Ryosuke Kojima, Tomoya Inukai, Taiyo Koga, Diego, Koki Kumasaka, Tojiro Kubo, Hayato Nakama, Yuto Yamada, Hiromu Mitsumaru, Yuki Kakita and Yoshio Koizumi.

📰 Team News: Shimizu S-Pulse

We reckon that Shimizu S-Pulse seem most likely to make use of a 4-2-3-1 system, starting the game with Yuya Oki, Kengo Kitazume, Yuji Takahashi, Sodai Hasukawa, Kento Haneda, Zento Uno, Matheus Bueno, Hikaru Nakahara, Shinya Yajima, Capixaba and Ahmed Ahmedov.

🔮 Prediction

We think that Shimizu S-Pulse may not find it easy to breach the defence of this Kashiwa Reysol outfit who we think will score & stay on top.

With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a very even match with a 1-0 win for Kashiwa Reysol at the end of the 90 minutes.

Let’s see what happens.

Andre Moura, 06:05 06/05/2025