📊 Form Guide

Tokushima Vortis

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Tokushima Vortis go into this game after a 0-0 J2 League drawn game vs Vegalta Sendai.

Tokushima Vortis have been conceding pretty frequently lately, but they’ve also managed to convert their own chances into goals. Over their last 6 matches, Tokushima Vortis have seen their goal breached in 5 of them as well as managing to get on the scoresheet in 5 of those games.

Analysis of their past results shows that Tokushima Vortis:

• are unbeaten in the league by Thespa Kusatsu in their previous 10 games. A long run without a loss.
• haven't won against Thespa Kusatsu in their previous 2 league matches.
• are without a win at home for the past 7 league matches. Their fans aren't happy.

Thespa Kusatsu

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Following on from a losing effort in their last game against Fagiano Okayama in J2 League action, Thespa Kusatsu will be hoping to turn things around here.

Takahiro Yanagi (48' Own goal), Taishi Semba (53') and Gabriel Xavier (94') scored for Fagiano Okayama.

The stats don’t lie, and Thespa Kusatsu have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, seeing their opponents hit 9 goals overall. In defence, Thespa Kusatsu have clearly had some problems. Nevertheless, time will tell if that pattern will persist here in this match.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Thespa Kusatsu:

• have not registered a win against Tokushima Vortis when they have played them away from home in the previous 5 league matches. Not good.
• are without a win away from home in their last 4 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

An examination of their prior head-to-head meetings going back to 05/09/2020 tells us that Tokushima Vortis have won 3 of these & Thespa Kusatsu 0, with the number of drawn results being 3.

A combined total of 8 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 6 for Tokushima and 2 netted by Gunma. That’s an average goals per game figure of 1.33.

The last league encounter featuring the two was J2 League match day 23 on 01/07/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Tokushima Vortis 0-0 Thespa Kusatsu.

The referee was Atsushi Kamimura.

📰 Team News: Tokushima Vortis

There aren’t many personnel worries, with just a single fitness concern for the Tokushima Vortis gaffer Tatsuma Yoshida to contend with from of an almost fully healthy set of players. Kohei Uchida (Hamstring injury) won’t play.

📰 Team News: Thespa Kusatsu

Owing to a completely injury-free squad ready to go, the Thespa Kusatsu boss Tsuyoshi Otsuki has no fitness concerns to speak of before this match.

💡 Prediction

We’re of the view that Thespa Kusatsu will have to play well to be putting a goal past this Tokushima Vortis side who we think might well score one, at least.

We therefore fancy a very even contest with a 1-0 advantage for Tokushima Vortis at the end of the match.

Should be an interesting one.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 04:07 30/03/2024