Yokohama FC vs Kawasaki Frontale Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Yokohama FC

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Yokohama FC fans will want a repeat of their previous result, being a 0-1 J1 League success over Kashiwa Reysol.

In that match, Yokohama FC had 43% possession and 9 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Yokohama FC was Koki Ogawa (69'). At the other end, Kashiwa Reysol had 28 attempts on goal with 6 on target.

Yokohama FC haven’t exactly had impressive attacking statistics of late. Their sum of goals equals just 4 vs opposition teams during the course of their last six matches. In those games, Yokohama FC have also seen the number of goals that have gone against them total 10.

Coming into this fixture, Yokohama FC are winless against Kawasaki Frontale in their previous 16 matches in the league. That has got to hurt.

Kawasaki Frontale

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After suffering a loss in their previous game against FC Tokyo in J1 League action, Kawasaki Frontale and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that game, Kawasaki Frontale had 65% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 5 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Kawasaki Frontale was Taisei Miyashiro (39'). On the other side, FC Tokyo got 10 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Shuhei Tokumoto (12') and Shuto Abe (25') scored for FC Tokyo.

In their previous six outings, Kawasaki Frontale have helped themselves to a tally of 13 goals. Kawasaki Frontale have additionally got on the scoresheet in every single one of those games. In that time, their defenders have seen 4 goals go into their own net. We will just have to see if that trend can be continued on into this next match.

👥 Head to head

A review of past results between these clubs stretching back to 17/03/2007 shows that these encounters have been disappointments for Yokohama FC. They’ve not been able to get themselves any victories whatsoever while Kawasaki Frontale have been dominant against them, finishing as winners in 100% of those match-ups.

Loads of goals were seen in those games, too - 24 in total which averages out at 4 goals per match.

The last league fixture featuring the two was J1 League match day 21 on 02/06/2021 when the final score was Yokohama FC 0-2 Kawasaki Frontale.

On that occasion, Yokohama FC had 40% possession and 3 attempts at goal with 0 of them on target.

For their opponents, Kawasaki Frontale had 19 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. Yū Kobayashi (39', 67') was the scorer.

The referee was Hiroki Kasahara.

ℹ️ Team News: Yokohama FC

There aren’t many selection issues, with just the sole fitness concern for the Yokohama FC boss Shuhei Yomoda to be concerned with thanks to an otherwise robust squad. Gabriel (Cruciate Ligament Injury) misses out. Players who are serving a ban and are therefore ineligible to play are Yuri Lara and Koki Ogawa.

ℹ️ Team News: Kawasaki Frontale

Kawasaki Frontale boss Tōru Oniki has not got a full squad to pick from. Jesiel (Meniscus Damage), Chanathip Songkrasin (Unknown Injury) and Shuto Tanabe (Medial Collateral Ligament Injury) will miss out on this game. The players who will not be able to play in this game through being suspended are João Schmidt and Yasuto Wakizaka.

💡 Prediction

We’re thinking that Yokohama FC will need to push hard to hit the back of the net against this Kawasaki Frontale side who will likely score & stay on top.

That’s why we have predicted a highly competitive game with a 0-1 win for Kawasaki Frontale when all is said and done.

Will be interesting to see how this one goes.

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Renata Leite, 00:46 16/05/2023