Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Sagan Tosu & Yokohama face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Ybc Levain Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
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.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1000 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
Sagan Tosu form and stats
Last season, Sagan's Ybc Levain Cup journey ended in the group stage.The story so far in the J-League for Sagan Tosu at their home stadium (Best Amenity Stadium) is 0 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat. Three draws in a row here at Best Amenity Stadium for Sagan, who might be willing to risk more at some point in hope of a win.
A good away victory last time out for Sagan, who won 3-2 against Tokyo. The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a J-League home game that ended 1-1 versus Cerezo Osaka.
This is expected to be a close game, with Sagan Tosu perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Sagan Tosu as a small favourite), we find 13 games. Sagan Tosu has won three of these, drawn two and lost eight.
Sagan are traveling soon after this match as the J-League match at Kashima Antlers awaits in three days.
Sagan has huge difficulties finding the net and are scoring on average only once per two home matches in the league: 2 goals from 4 games. Sagan Tosu are not conceding a lot of goals here at Best Amenity Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 3 from 4 matches.
Yokohama form and stats
Things could have gone better for Yokohama in their J-League away matches, but 4 points from 3 games is all right. It's looking increasingly bleak for Yokohama who now has to deal with a four game losing streak. Vegalta Sendai was the last time a defeat was avoided.
The attacking players of Yokohama have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 301 minutes.
This game can not go any worse than the last one, a J-League home defeat versus Sanfrecce Hiroshima with 0-2 on the scoreboard. Preceding that, the 0-2 home loss versus Urawa Reds.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found nine similar matches played by Yokohama in our archives, and the results are: three wins for Yokohama, three draws and three defeats.
Yokohama has another fixture away, a J-League game, against Gamba Osaka in just three days. A tough schedule for the visitors!
Yokohama have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 3 league away games 4 goals have been scored. The Yokohama manager T. Shimotaira has some worries about the defense as 6 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
Last ten meetings between the teams: Sagan Tosu won four, Yokohama won three and three draws. four games with over 2,5 goals, six matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  A. Laajab 18 goals |  Y. Minagawa 10 goals |
Sagan Tosu missing players
Yokohama missing players
| Sagan Tosu | Yokohama | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 15 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 8 | 5 | Won | W | 4 | 11 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Drew | D | 4 | 6 | ||
| 10 | 6 | Lost | L | 3 | 8 | ||
| 27 | 17 | Scored | S | 11 | 32 | ||
| 36 | 24 | Conceded | C | 13 | 33 | ||
| 88% | 93% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 82% | 88% | ||
| 60% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 64% | 76% | ||
| 44% | 47% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 45% | 44% | ||
| 24% | 20% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 27% | 28% | ||
| 20% | 20% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 16% | ||
| 48% | 53% | BTTS | BTTS | 45% | 48% | ||
| 20% | 20% | Clean Sheets | C S | 36% | 32% | ||
| 44% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 36% | 32% | ||
| 6.2 | 6.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.3 | 4.2 | ||
| 4.4 | 3.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.6 | 4.9 | ||
| 1.1 | 1.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 0.8 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 253 | 168 | Total Shots | T S | 102 | 211 | ||
| 106 | 67 | Shots on Target | S O | 38 | 79 | ||
| 25% | 24% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 37% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Consadole Sapporo | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2 | Sanfrecce Hiroshima | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | Yokohama | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 |
| 4 | Sagan Tosu | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 |
| 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 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 15 | 22 |
| 2 | Cerezo Osaka | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 17 |
| 3 | Gamba Osaka | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 16 |
| 4 | Kashiwa Reysol | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 19 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 15 |
| 5 | Nagoya Grampus | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 14 |
| 6 | Tokyo | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 14 |
| 7 | Urawa Reds | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | -1 | 14 |
| 8 | Consadole Sapporo | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 12 |
| 9 | Vissel Kobe | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | -1 | 12 |
| 10 | Sanfrecce Hiroshima | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| 11 | Yokohama F. Marinos | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -1 | 10 |
| 12 | Kashima Antlers | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 8 | -3 | 7 |
| 13 | Sagan Tosu | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -3 | 7 |
| 14 | Oita Trinita | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -7 | 7 |
| 15 | Vegalta Sendai | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | -6 | 6 |
| 16 | Shimizu S-Pulse | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -6 | 5 |
| 17 | Yokohama | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | -11 | 5 |
| 18 | Shonan Bellmare | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -6 | 4 |