📊 Form Guide

Albirex Niigata

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Albirex Niigata will be hoping for a better result after the 3-0 J1 League defeat last time out to Nagoya Grampus.

In that game, Albirex Niigata managed 59% possession and 6 attempts at goal with 2 on target. On the other side, Nagoya Grampus had 17 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Ryuji Izumi (54'), Taichi Kikuchi (90') and Yuya Yamagishi (92') scored for Nagoya Grampus.

It has been all too rare in recent times where Albirex Niigata have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. In fact, Albirex Niigata have been scored against in 6 of their previous 6 matches, shipping 12 goals on the way.

Analysis of their past results shows that Albirex Niigata:

• haven't been beaten in the league by Yokohama F. Marinos in their last 5 games.
• have not beaten Yokohama F. Marinos in their last 2 league matches.
• have not been beaten in their last 2 league matches at home.

Yokohama F. Marinos

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Yokohama F. Marinos head into the meeting following a 0-3 J1 League win vs Machida Zelvia in their previous outing.

In that game, Yokohama F. Marinos had 44% possession and 6 attempts at goal with 3 on target. The scorer for Yokohama F. Marinos was Daiya Tono (23', 27'). For their opponents, Machida Zelvia had 16 shots on goal with 6 on target. Hiroyuki Mae (94' Own goal) scored for Machida Zelvia.

Looking at their form, and Yokohama F. Marinos have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing their opponents hit 9 goals overall. Defensively, Yokohama F. Marinos just haven’t been too solid at all. It will be interesting to find out whether or not that trend can be continued on in this game.

Going into this contest, Yokohama F. Marinos are winless against Albirex Niigata when they have played them away from home in the previous 2 league games.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at their most recent head-to-head clashes stretching back to 05/08/2017 shows that Albirex Niigata have won 2 of them and Yokohama F. Marinos 1, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 3.

11 goals were scored between them in these games, with 6 for Albirex and 5 coming from Marinos. The average number of goals per game works out to 1.83.

The last league contest between the two was J1 League match day 1 on 15/02/2025 and the score finished Yokohama F. Marinos 1-1 Albirex Niigata.

On that occasion, Yokohama F. Marinos had 55% possession and 6 shots on goal with 2 on target. Their only player to score was Lopes (77').

Albirex Niigata got 16 shots on goal with 5 on target. Shusuke Ota (26') scored.

The match was refereed by Koichiro Fukushima.

🗞️ Team News: Yokohama F. Marinos

Yokohama F. Marinos manager Patrick Kisnorbo has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Reno Noguchi (Hamstring injury), Jeison Quiñónes (Hamstring injury), Kosei Suwama (Torn ankle ligaments), Ryo Miyaichi (Hamstring injury) and Takuto Kimura (Cruciate ligament injury) can’t be considered.

💭 Prediction

We feel that Yokohama F. Marinos and Albirex Niigata may well end up cancelling each other out here.

Will be interesting to see how this one goes, with a good chance of a draw. That’s why our selection here is for a close game with a 1-1 score draw at the end of the 90.

Andre Moura, 04:03 15/06/2025