Tokyo Verdy vs Renofa Yamaguchi Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Tokyo Verdy

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Tokyo Verdy, buoyed by their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after a 2-1 J2 League success vs Mito Hollyhock.

The only player to score from Tokyo Verdy was Ryoga Sato (2', 73'). Koya Okuda (18') was the scorer for Mito Hollyhock.

It has been seldom in recent times where Tokyo Verdy have kept a clean sheet. In fact, Tokyo Verdy have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 games, leaking 16 goals along the way. Still, we must now wait to see whether that trend shall be maintained in this upcoming game.

Renofa Yamaguchi

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After being defeated in their last game at the hands of Tochigi S.C. in J2 League action, Renofa Yamaguchi and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

Juninho (45') scored for Tochigi S.C.

The attacking players from Renofa Yamaguchi have struggled for goals over their last 6 games, recording the unsatisfactory return of just 4. In those fixtures, Renofa have also seen the collective goal tally of their opponents equal 6.

Coming into this clash, Renofa Yamaguchi have not registered a win against Tokyo Verdy when having played them away from home in the previous 3 league games.

👥 Head to head

Checking on their most recent head to head clashes going back to 12/05/2018 tells us that Tokyo Verdy have won 4 of these and Renofa Yamaguchi 2, with the tally of drawn matches being 0.

Those games weren’t short on goals, either, with 26 in all which averages out at 4.33 goals per match.

The last league game featuring these sides was J2 League match day 35 on 22/11/2020 when it ended Tokyo Verdy 2-1 Renofa Yamaguchi.

The match was refereed by Masaki Tsuruoka.

📋 Team News: Tokyo Verdy

Tokyo Verdy boss Hideki Nagai will be thankful to have no fitness concerns whatsoever coming into this game thanks to a completely injury-free group ready to go.

📰 Team News: Renofa Yamaguchi

Yamaguchi boss Susumu Watanabe has not got a full squad to pick from. Yatsunori Shimaya (Ligament Injury), Kaito Oki (Cruciate Ligament Rupture) and Genki Yamada (Fatigue fracture) are names that won’t be on the team sheet.

⚡ Prediction

Our thinking is that Renofa Yamaguchi have the firepower to break down this Tokyo Verdy team, although that might not quite be as many as they will have scored against them.

We’re tipping a very close game with a 2-1 winning score for Tokyo Verdy at the end of the 90 minutes. Let’s wait and see how it plays out.

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

Andre Moura, 23:22 05/04/2021