Yokohama F. Marinos vs Vissel Kobe Live Stream, Predictions (May 21)

📊 Form Guide

Yokohama F. Marinos

LLLLLL 🆘

Yokohama F. Marinos will be looking for an improved result here after the 0-3 J1 League defeat last time out to Kyoto Sanga.

In that game, Yokohama F. Marinos managed 59% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 2 on target. On the other side, Kyoto Sanga had 11 shots at goal with 5 on target. Temma Matsuda (31'), Masaya Okugawa (67') and Shinnosuke Fukuda (81') scored for Kyoto Sanga.

Matches featuring Yokohama F. Marinos have usually been entertaining affairs lately with high scoring expected. Over their past half dozen clashes alone, the sum of 20 goals have gone in for both sides combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 4 of these being chalked up by Yokohama F. Marinos. We will just have to see whether or not that trend will end up being continued on in this game.

Going into this contest, Yokohama F. Marinos haven’t won at home in the past 4 matches in the league. Things will have to change soon.

Vissel Kobe

WWWLLW

Vissel Kobe go into this match following a 3-2 J1 League win with the downing of Gamba Osaka in their previous outing.

In that game, Vissel Kobe managed 55% possession and 14 shots at goal with 8 of them on target. For Vissel Kobe, the goals were scored by Yuya Osako (50', 90') and Erik (59'). On the other side, Gamba Osaka got 11 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. Shu Kurata (56') and Keisuke Kurokawa (73') scored for Gamba Osaka.

In the course of their 6 most recent matches, Takayuki Yoshida's Vissel Kobe have seen their goal attempts be successful a total of 9 times, earning them the goals per game average of 1.5.

Going into this one, Vissel Kobe remain undefeated by Yokohama F. Marinos in games played away from home for the previous 2 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head duels dating back to 18/08/2022, it’s been all-even between these two clubs with Yokohama F. Marinos winning 3 of those games, Vissel Kobe 3 and 0 being draws in normal time.

Loads of goals were seen in those games, too - 22 in all at an average of 3.67 goals per match.

The last league encounter between these clubs was J1 League match day 26 on 11/08/2024 which ended up with the score at Yokohama F. Marinos 1-2 Vissel Kobe.

That time, Yokohama F. Marinos managed 55% possession and 12 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Their only player to score was Eduardo (42').

At the other end, Vissel Kobe got 18 shots at goal with 6 on target. Yoshinori Muto (45', 65') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Hiroyuki Kimura.

📋 Team News: Yokohama F. Marinos

Reno Noguchi (Hamstring injury) and Takuto Kimura (Cruciate ligament injury) aren’t available for Yokohama F. Marinos boss Patrick Kisnorbo.

📰 Team News: Vissel Kobe

Thanks to a largely available group of players, there’s only the lone fitness problem for the Vissel Kobe gaffer Takayuki Yoshida to be concerned with. Klismahn (unknown injury) won’t be in action.

⚡ Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Yokohama F. Marinos could find themselves up against it to get anything against this Vissel Kobe lineup who will likely score at least once to gain the upper hand.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a very competitive encounter with a 0-1 win for Vissel Kobe when the referee blows for full-time.

Will be interesting to see how this one goes.

📖 ⚽️ What are the top odds for the game?

Turning to the betting odds on the full-time result market, staking on Yokohama F. Marinos is available for 3.7, a bet on a drawn result is 3.6 and betting on the win for Vissel Kobe is 1.91. They’re the most competitive market prices offered at the current time.

Lucas Pereira, 16:02 19/05/2025