Machida Zelvia vs Renofa Yamaguchi Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Machida Zelvia

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Machida Zelvia are hoping to win again following a 0-1 J2 League triumph vs Ōmiya Ardija.

The only name on the scoresheet from Machida Zelvia was Yuki Nakashima (32').

Their most recent results reveal that not much more can be done by the Machida Zelvia rearguard. Machida have given the opposition little, seeing the total number of goals that have flown into the back of their net over the course of their previous 6 games standing at 2. That sort of trend might not be carried forward into this next game, though.

Heading into this fixture, Machida Zelvia have not been beaten in the league by Renofa Yamaguchi in their last 3 games.

Renofa Yamaguchi

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After a losing effort in their last game against Kyoto Sanga in J2 League action, Renofa Yamaguchi will be hoping to turn things around here.

Temma Matsuda (27') and Takumi Miyayoshi (46') scored for Kyoto Sanga.

The strike force from Renofa Yamaguchi have suffered from a shortage of goals over their previous 6 encounters, recording the poor return of only 4. In those matches, Renofa have also seen the overall goal aggregate of opposing teams equal 7.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Renofa Yamaguchi:

• have left without a victory over Machida Zelvia in games played away from home for the previous 2 matches in the league.
• are without an away win for the past 2 league games.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their prior head-to-head meetings dating back to 22/04/2018 shows that Machida Zelvia have won 4 of them & Renofa Yamaguchi 2, with the number of drawn matches being 0.

In all, 11 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 6 of them from Machida and 5 coming from Renofa. The average goals per game has been 1.83.

The last league meeting featuring these sides was J2 League match day 33 on 11/11/2020 and the score finished Machida Zelvia 1-0 Renofa Yamaguchi.

The referee was Kazuyoshi Enomoto.

🗞️ Team News: Machida Zelvia

There aren’t many personnel worries, with just one fitness concern for the Machida Zelvia gaffer Ranko Popović to be concerned with thanks to an almost full-strength group of players. Chong Tese (Biceps femoris muscle injury) will miss out.

📋 Team News: Renofa Yamaguchi

Yamaguchi boss Susumu Watanabe has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Kaito Oki (Cruciate Ligament Rupture), Genki Yamada (Fatigue fracture) and Yuki Kusano (Biceps femoris muscle injury) won’t be making appearances.

⚡ Prediction

We envisage that Machida Zelvia are likely to convert a lot of goal-scoring opportunities.

In contrast, Renofa Yamaguchi are also probably going to find it difficult to get a goal of their own but we do think that it’s more than likely that they will be scoring here as well.

Our selection here is for a fairly comfortable 3-1 margin for Machida Zelvia at the conclusion of the game.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 23:25 27/04/2021