Tokyo Verdy vs V-Varen Nagasaki Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Tokyo Verdy

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Tokyo Verdy head into this match following on from a 2-2 J2 League stalemate vs Oita Trinita.

For Tokyo Verdy, the scorers were Ren Kato (18') and Koki Morita (40'). Kazuki Fujimoto (20') and Hiroto Goya (43') scored for Oita Trinita.

It’s not been often in recent games that Tokyo Verdy have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. In fact, Tokyo Verdy have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, shipping 9 goals during that time. Even so, we’ll just have to find out whether that pattern will be sustained in this game.

V-Varen Nagasaki

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In their last fixture, V-Varen Nagasaki drew 2-2 in the J2 League match with Albirex Niigata.

The only name on the scoresheet from V-Varen Nagasaki was Edigar Junio (14', 59'). Soya Fujiwara (45') and Koji Suzuki (51') scored for Albirex Niigata.

V-Varen Nagasaki have seen success in front of goal in the lead-up to this encounter, having scored 10 times in their previous 6 matches. While their manager Hiroshi Matsuda will no doubt take that as a positive sign, V-Varen Nagasaki can also improve defensively after being scored against in 5 of those same matches.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that V-Varen Nagasaki:

• haven't been beaten by Tokyo Verdy in games played away from home for the previous 2 matches in the league.
• are undefeated in their last 7 league matches away from home.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking on their prior head-to-head clashes going back to 31/08/2019 tells us that Tokyo Verdy have won 0 of them and V-Varen Nagasaki 3, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 3.

A sum of 12 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 3 from Tokyo Verdy and 9 netted by VVN. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.

The previous league contest between these sides was J2 League match day 1 on 19/02/2022 when it finished V-Varen Nagasaki 1-1 Tokyo Verdy.

The match was refereed by Kazuyoshi Enomoto.

🗞️ Team News: Tokyo Verdy

The Tokyo Verdy boss Takafumi Hori will be happy not to have any fitness worries at all ahead of this clash thanks to a completely healthy group available to select from.

📰 Team News: V-Varen Nagasaki

In an otherwise available group of players, there’s only the lone fitness worry for the V-Varen Nagasaki gaffer Hiroshi Matsuda to contend with. Taisei Abe (Medial Collateral Ligament Injury) won’t be playing here.

🧠 Prediction

We believe that V-Varen Nagasaki and Tokyo Verdy are probably both going to find scoring goals difficult here.

At this stage, it appears to have the makings of a possible draw. That’s why we have predicted a hard-fought 0-0 draw at full-time.

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

Renata Leite, 02:37 02/08/2022