📏 Form Guide

Sagan Tosu

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Sagan Tosu enter this game following on from a 1-1 J1 League drawn game against Kashiwa Reysol.

In that game, Sagan Tosu managed 51% possession and 3 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Sagan Tosu was Marcelo Ryan (14'). On the other side, Kashiwa Reysol got 19 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. Takuya Shimamura (40') scored for Kashiwa Reysol.

In their preceding 6 games, Kenta Kawai's Sagan Tosu have netted a total of 7 times, with that being an average number of goals scored per match of 1.17.

A look at their previous results shows us that Sagan Tosu:

• are unbeaten in the league by Tokyo Verdy in their previous 2 matches.
• have not been beaten in their last 2 league matches at home.

Tokyo Verdy

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In their previous fixture, Tokyo Verdy drew 0-0 in the J1 League tie with Avispa Fukuoka.

In that game, Tokyo Verdy managed 56% possession and 10 shots at goal with 5 on target. For their opponents, Avispa Fukuoka got 13 shots at goal with 3 on target.

A run of hard-working displays by the Tokyo Verdy defenders has seen the number of goals they’ve conceded amounting to 4 from their past 6 fixtures in total. During the same period of time, their own attack force has managed to score 6. That kind of trend isn’t assured to be carried forward into this match, however.

Going into this one, Tokyo Verdy haven't been defeated in their previous 2 league matches away from home.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their most recent head-to-head meetings stretching back to 15/08/2009 shows that Sagan Tosu have won 3 of these games and Tokyo Verdy 1, with the tally of draws standing at 2.

A sum of 12 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 8 of them from Sagan Tosu and 4 netted by Tokyo Verdy. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.

The previous league clash featuring these clubs was J2 League match day 25 on 21/08/2011 when it finished Tokyo Verdy 0-2 Sagan Tosu.

The referee was Yuichi Nishimura.

📋 Team News: Sagan Tosu

Fuchi Honda (Tear of the lateral meniscus) and Yoshiki Narahara (Cruciate ligament injury) will be missing for Sagan Tosu manager Kenta Kawai.

It’s our opinion that Sagan Tosu will probably use a 4-2-3-1 system this time, utilising Il-Kyu Park, Katsunori Ueebisu, Kosuke Yamazaki, Tae-Hyeon Kim, Taichi Kikuchi, So Kawahara, Kohei Tezuka, Cayman Togashi, Yuki Horigome, Yoichi Naganuma and Marcelo Ryan.

🗞️ Team News: Tokyo Verdy

From a largely healthy group of players, there’s just the lone fitness problem for the Tokyo Verdy manager Hiroshi Jofuku to be concerned about. Ryosuke Shirai (Metatarsal fracture) won’t be in action.

We are inclined to think that Tokyo Verdy could decide to play in a 4-4-2 system, starting Matheus Vidotto, Hijiri Onaga, Naoki Hayashi, Kaito Chida, Yutaro Hakamata, Tomoya Miki, Tetsuyuki Inami, Koki Morita, Tiago Alves, Itsuki Someno and Yudai Kimura.

💡 Prediction

In our opinion, Sagan Tosu will need to put in a solid display to register a score against this Tokyo Verdy outfit who we think will gain the upper hand.

That’s why our selection here is for a hard-fought contest, finishing with a 0-1 winning margin for Tokyo Verdy when all is said and done.

Expecting it to be tight.

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

Renata Leite, 05:09 03/05/2024