Getting closer to the top teams is at stake when these two mid-table clubs battle it out. Both will be aiming to improve their league table standing, Yokohama F. Marinos in 9th and Sanfrecce Hiroshima in 8th place.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Yokohama F. Marinos form and stats
Overall J-League stats at home this season for Yokohama F. Marinos are 2-1-2 (wins-draw-losses).
Yokohama enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Shimizu S-Pulse's place. The match ended 4-3 with K. Watanabe, Junior Santos (2) and D. Maeda scoring. A defeat was the result before that one, 0-1 away at Oita Trinita.
A goal frenzy last time out for Yokohama, with a total of 7 goals in the match against Shimizu S-Pulse. Fun stuff to watch! The victory against Shimizu S-Pulse came after K. Watanabe's winning goal. The Yokohama manager A. Postecoglou was very happy afterwards with the decision to bring on that player in the 68th minute.
The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Yokohama have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found eleven games) they have won eight times, drawn two and lost one.
Yokohama F. Marinos can score goals in their home matches. After 5 league matches they have found the net 10 times. Yokohama have conceded 8 from these games.
Sanfrecce Hiroshima form and stats
2-1-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Sanfrecce Hiroshima in their J-League matches away.
Sanfrecce played 3-3 against Tokyo in their previous match. It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Urawa Reds wasn't a success with a 0-1 loss.
As you can tell from the result, the match against Tokyo was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today?
Sanfrecce are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is three wins, zero draws and two defeats. From a total of five matches.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Sanfrecce have scored 5 goals in 5 league games away. Sanfrecce Hiroshima's manager H. Jofuku has created a great defensive setup working very nicely in away games with only 2 conceded goals. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Yokohama-Sanfrecce Hiroshima H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Yokohama F. Marinos four wins, Sanfrecce Hiroshima four wins, two draws. seven of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  M. Lima dos Santos 5 goals |  L. Peruchena Pereira 4 goals | J. Amano 3 goals |
Yokohama F. Marinos missing players
Sanfrecce Hiroshima missing players
| Yokohama F. Marinos | Sanfrecce Hiroshima | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 5 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 18 | 10 | 1 | Scored | S | 3 | 5 | 14 |
| 19 | 8 | 2 | Conceded | C | 1 | 2 | 9 |
| 91% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 80% | 90% |
| 73% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 40% | 60% |
| 64% | 80% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 20% | 50% |
| 55% | 60% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 27% | 20% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 64% | 80% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 30% |
| 27% | 20% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 60% | 50% |
| 18% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 60% | 30% |
| 7.7 | 6.4 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.5 | 6 | 6.4 |
| 4.2 | 4.8 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 3.4 | 4.9 |
| 1.4 | 1.6 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.2 | 1.1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 125 | 54 | 20 | Total Shots | T S | 27 | 70 | 115 |
| 44 | 19 | 4 | Shots on Target | S O | 11 | 23 | 43 |
| 41% | 53% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 27% | 22% | 30% |
- All of Yokohama F. Marinos's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Sanfrecce Hiroshima has the fewest conceded goals (2) away
- Sanfrecce Hiroshima has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (3)
- Sanfrecce Hiroshima have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded away.
- Yokohama F. Marinos have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Yokohama F. Marinos have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Yokohama F. Marinos have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Yokohama F. Marinos haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Kawasaki Frontale | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 34 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 4 | 25 | 31 |
| 2 | Cerezo Osaka | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 21 |
| 3 | Nagoya Grampus | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 10 | 20 |
| 4 | Urawa Reds | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 12 | -2 | 20 |
| 5 | Kashiwa Reysol | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 24 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 19 |
| 6 | Tokyo | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 18 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 19 |
| 7 | Gamba Osaka | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 19 |
| 8 | Sanfrecce Hiroshima | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 14 |
| 9 | Yokohama F. Marinos | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 11 | -1 | 14 |
| 10 | Vissel Kobe | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 5 | -3 | 13 |
| 11 | Consadole Sapporo | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 22 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 10 | -5 | 13 |
| 12 | Kashima Antlers | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 9 | -2 | 11 |
| 13 | Oita Trinita | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 11 | -8 | 11 |
| 14 | Yokohama | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 22 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | -9 | 11 |
| 15 | Vegalta Sendai | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | -5 | 10 |
| 16 | Shimizu S-Pulse | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 21 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -5 | 9 |
| 17 | Sagan Tosu | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | -5 | 7 |
| 18 | Shonan Bellmare | 11 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 14 | -10 | 4 |