📊 Form Guide

Yokohama F. Marinos

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Yokohama F. Marinos will be looking to improve on their last outing here following the 0-2 J1 League defeat last time out to Kashiwa Reysol.

In that match, Yokohama F. Marinos had 50% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 1 on target. On the other side, Kashiwa Reysol got 19 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Yoshio Koizumi (55') and Kosuke Kinoshita (91') scored for Kashiwa Reysol.

Fixtures with Yokohama F. Marinos have usually been lively ones of late with plenty of scoring being the norm. Over their past 6 clashes, a total of 20 goals have been recorded for both teams combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 5 of those belonging to Yokohama F. Marinos. We will see whether or not that trend will end up being continued on in this game.

Ahead of this clash, Yokohama F. Marinos have not won at home in their last 3 league games.

Kyoto Sanga

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In their previous game, Kyoto Sanga drew 1-1 in the J1 League tie with Nagoya Grampus.

In that game, Kyoto Sanga had 52% possession and 13 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. The scorer for Kyoto Sanga was Shun Nagasawa (70'). For their opponents, Nagoya Grampus had 15 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Sho Inagaki (84') scored for Nagoya Grampus.

Kyoto Sanga have been a threat going forward in the lead-up to this encounter, having scored 10 times in their last 6 matches. While their manager Kwi-jae Cho will no doubt take that as a positive sign, Kyoto Sanga have been somewhat leaky at the back, having also been scored against in 6 of those same clashes.

👥 Head to head

Looking at their prior head to head meetings dating back to 25/05/2022 shows that Yokohama F. Marinos have won 4 of these & Kyoto Sanga 2, with the number of drawn games standing at 0.

Those games weren’t short on goals, either, with 22 overall which averages out at 3.67 goals per match.

The previous league contest between the two was J1 League match day 30 on 13/09/2024 and the score finished Yokohama F. Marinos 1-2 Kyoto Sanga.

The referee was Yuichi Nishimura.

📰 Team News: Yokohama F. Marinos

Reno Noguchi (Hamstring injury) and Takuto Kimura (Cruciate ligament injury) will not be taking part for Yokohama F. Marinos boss Patrick Kisnorbo.

🗞️ Team News: Kyoto Sanga

Thanks to a mainly healthy group, there’s only the one fitness worry for the Kyoto Sanga gaffer Kwi-jae Cho to contend with. Sung-yun Gu (Meniscus injury) won’t be playing here.

🔮 Prediction

We’re thinking that Kyoto Sanga will need things to go their way to score goals against this Yokohama F. Marinos side who we think might well be able to get on the scoresheet themselves in a winning performance.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a highly competitive game with a 1-0 winning margin for Yokohama F. Marinos at the end of this game.

Hopefully it’s a good one.

Renata Leite, 04:11 17/05/2025