Kawasaki Frontale vs Yokohama F. Marinos Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Kawasaki Frontale

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Kawasaki Frontale go into this match following a 1-1 J1 League stalemate against Yokohama F. Marinos.

In that match, Kawasaki Frontale had 50% possession and 10 attempts on goal with 4 on target. The only player to score for Kawasaki Frontale was Leandro Damião (25'). On the other side, Yokohama F. Marinos had 9 shots at goal with 1 of them on target. Teruhito Nakagawa (45') scored for Yokohama F. Marinos.

It’s been all too rare in recent times where Kawasaki Frontale have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. It will be a concern for them that Kawasaki Frontale have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 matches, leaking 9 goals on the way. Previous results aside, it remains to be seen whether such a trend will persist in this next game.

Their prior results show that Kawasaki Frontale:

• have not won against Yokohama F. Marinos in their previous 2 matches in the league.
• have not been beaten in their last 3 league matches at home.

Yokohama F. Marinos

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In a total of 5 out of the previous 6 games featuring Yokohama F. Marinos, a minimum of three goals have been hit. The average number of goals per match during that time is 4.17, with the average number of goals for Yokohama F. Marinos equalling 2.5.

Taking a look at their past results, Yokohama F. Marinos:

• haven't won against Kawasaki Frontale when they have played them away from home in the previous 2 league matches.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 5 league matches away from home.
• have not won away from home in their last 2 league games.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their past head-to-head meetings stretching back to 30/11/2019 tells us that Kawasaki Frontale have won 3 of these games & Yokohama F. Marinos 2, with the number of draws standing at 1.

A lot of goals were also scored during this period, 23 in total at an average of 3.83 goals per meeting.

The previous league fixture featuring these clubs was J1 League match day 9 on 23/02/2022 and the score finished Yokohama F. Marinos 4-2 Kawasaki Frontale.

On that occasion, Yokohama F. Marinos managed 54% possession and 15 shots at goal with 6 on target. The goals were scored by Élber (57', 64') and Teruhito Nakagawa (58', 78').

Kawasaki Frontale had 15 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. Akihiro Ienaga (32') and Kei Chinen (73') scored.

The referee was Yusuke Araki.

📰 Team News: Kawasaki Frontale

There’s just the lone fitness concern for the Kawasaki Frontale boss Tōru Oniki to be concerned about from of an almost fully healthy group. Ryota Oshima (Hamstring Injury) is out of contention.

ℹ️ Team News: Yokohama F. Marinos

Owing to an otherwise available squad, there is just the one fitness worry for the Yokohama F. Marinos boss Kevin Muscat to be concerned with. Ryo Miyaichi (Cruciate Ligament Rupture) misses out for this game.

✨ Prediction

We are of the inclination to think that Yokohama F. Marinos and Kawasaki Frontale are both more than capable of scoring here.

It will be interesting to see how this one goes, with a good chance of a draw and also of goals in the match. With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a very competitive game with a score draw at full-time.

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Renata Leite, 16:09 05/08/2022