Sanfrecce Hiroshima vs Shonan Bellmare Prediction & Betting Tips

Sanfrecce Hiroshima play host to the visiting Shonan Bellmare at EDION Stadium Hiroshima in the J1 League game on Sunday.

Our Sanfrecce Hiroshima v Shonan Bellmare predictions, statistics and match poll can be seen below (including the best match odds).

📏 Form Guide

Sanfrecce Hiroshima WLDLLW

Sanfrecce Hiroshima, buoyed by their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 0-2 J1 League victory over Yokohama FC.

For Sanfrecce Hiroshima, the scorers were Tsukasa Morishima (22') and Douglas Vieira (37').

Hiroshi Jofuku's Sanfrecce Hiroshima have managed to score a sum total of 7 times in their past half-dozen outings. Conversely, the tally of goals that have been scored against them in those same games is 5.

Shonan Bellmare LDLWLL

After being beaten in their last game against Cerezo Osaka in J1 League competition, Shonan Bellmare will be hoping to turn things around here.

Hiroshi Kiyotake (72') scored for Cerezo Osaka.

Throughout their six latest matches, Bin Ukishima's Shonan Bellmare have managed to stick the ball in the net a total of 6 times - yielding them the goals scored per game average of 1.

Coming into this clash, Shonan Bellmare are without a win away from home in their last 9 league matches. It's not a good run at all.

🤜🤛 Head to head

An examination of their past head to head meetings stretching back to 12/03/2016 shows that Sanfrecce Hiroshima have won 3 of these games & Shonan Bellmare 1, with the tally of drawn games being 2.

A combined total of 16 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 10 of them for Sanfrecce and 6 being from Shonan. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.67.

The last league meeting featuring these clubs was J1 League match day 33 on 30/11/2019 and the score finished Shonan Bellmare 1-0 Sanfrecce Hiroshima.

The referee was Hajime Matsuo.

ℹ️ Team News: Sanfrecce Hiroshima

Sanfrecce Hiroshima manager Hiroshi Jofuku will be grateful not to have any fitness concerns at all coming into this match owing to a fully healthy squad available for selection.

📋 Team News: Shonan Bellmare

Owing to an otherwise available group, there’s just a single fitness issue for the Shonan Bellmare manager Bin Ukishima to be concerned about. Tsukasa Umesaki (Torn Meniscus) won’t be in action.

💭 Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Sanfrecce Hiroshima have it within them to get a lot of shots on goal and make them count.

However, Shonan Bellmare may well find it hard to make a breakthrough although we do think that they will probably end up managing to get on the scoresheet, too.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a controlled 3-1 winning margin for Sanfrecce Hiroshima when the full-time whistle blows.

Peter Guest, 23:05 04/08/2020