Renofa Yamaguchi vs Tokyo Verdy Prediction & Betting Tips

Renofa Yamaguchi will host visiting club Tokyo Verdy at Ishin Me-Life Stadium in this J2 League tie on Saturday.

For all of our match predictions, pre-game poll and statistics for Renofa Yamaguchi v Tokyo Verdy, scroll down - plus the latest betting odds.

📏 Form Guide

Renofa Yamaguchi LLDLDL 📉

Renofa Yamaguchi will be looking to improve on their last outing here following the 4-2 J2 League losing effort in their last game against Mito Hollyhock.

For Renofa Yamaguchi, the goalscorers were Kazuma Takai (61') and Ren Komatsu (66'). Kazuma Yamaguchi (20', 52') and Masato Nakayama (57') scored for Mito Hollyhock.

It has been a rare occasion in recent times that Renofa Yamaguchi have shown defensive steel. The reality is that Renofa have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 13 goals in the process. That kind of pattern might not follow through into this match, of course.

Looking at their past form shows that Renofa Yamaguchi:

• have not emerged victorious against Tokyo Verdy in their last 3 league games.
• are without a home win in the past 3 matches in the league.

Tokyo Verdy LWDLWL

After tasting defeat last time out to Thespa Kusatsu in J2 League competition, Tokyo Verdy will be aiming to make amends here.

The only scorer from Tokyo Verdy was Masashi Wakasa (5'). Toshiya Tanaka (17', 42') scored for Thespa Kusatsu.

In the course of their six most recent matches, Hideki Nagai's Tokyo Verdy have managed to stick the ball in the net a total of 7 times therefore giving them a goals scored per game average of 1.17.

Ahead of this clash, Tokyo Verdy are undefeated in their previous 2 away league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking on their most recent head-to-head clashes dating back to 19/03/2017 tells us that Renofa Yamaguchi have won 2 of these games and Tokyo Verdy 4, with the tally of drawn games standing at 0.

There were also goals galore in those games, with 25 in total at an average of 4.17 goals per match.

The previous league encounter featuring the two was J2 League match day 31 on 08/09/2019 when the final score was Tokyo Verdy 4-0 Renofa Yamaguchi.

The referee was Toshihiro Nakai.

ℹ️ Team News: Renofa Yamaguchi

Kaito Oki (Cruciate Ligament Rupture), Sandro (Abdominal muscles injury) and Kosuke Kikuchi (Rupture of Outer Meniscus) are not available for Yamaguchi manager Masahiro Shimoda.

📰 Team News: Tokyo Verdy

Thanks to a fully injury-free squad ready to go, Tokyo Verdy boss Hideki Nagai has zero fitness worries whatsoever coming into this match.

🔮 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Renofa Yamaguchi will have to perform well to be putting a goal past this Tokyo Verdy side who will likely score & stay on top.

With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a very even match with a 0-1 winning score for Tokyo Verdy at the end of the 90 minutes.

There should be little in it.

Andre Moura, 23:13 14/09/2020