GW 492 J1 League Preview - DRAFT

The deadline for the upcoming GW is tomorrow at 3pm CET. I will post the predicted lineups in the morning. This post goes through some team news, injuries and suspensions

Fixtures

J1 Table

Machida kept their 5 point lead at the top with another win against struggling Nagoya who are on a 4 game losing streak. Kashima, Gamba and Vissel all got impressive wins.

Sapporo nightmare season continued with their 8th loss in row. They are now 12 points away from safety! Shonan, Kyoto and Sagan all got wins. Kawasaki got a draw and are now just 3 points above the drop.

YFM dismal season continues with Harry Kewell on the brink of the sack. They lost their 4th game in a row.

Main Points

• Komai (Sapporo), Naganuma (Sagan), Ishihara (Urawa), Fitzgerald (Niigata), Tashiro (Fukuoka), Yamada (Verdy) , Inoue (Fukuoka),are all suspended. Yuta Miyamoto (Kyoto) cant play due to contract reasons

• Yu Hirakawa was the main transfer out this week moving to Bristol City from Machida. Kaneko moved to KV Kortrjik from Sapporo.

• Sakai (Kobe) is confirmed out for 8-10 weeks with a broken toe.

• Soma (Nagoya) has returned from loan. Was expected to transfer again but looks like hes staying. Manager has said he starts this GW

• Lots of teams played in the league cup on Wednesday. Kato (Hiroshima) went off with a suspected concussion and assumed out. Players like Okuda (Cerezo) returned.

• Kojima (Niigata) seen in light training but atm remains a doubt. Popp situation is similar. Hoping for more infor tomorrow

• Kawashima is v likely out. Strong hint that Mitsuki Sugimoto will start in nets.

• The u23 Olympics teams was announced. This will be covered by Sorare. The below are the players who have been called up from J league sides:

  

• All indications are these players will be available to play this gameweek and will join camp later.

• Gamba have just 1 loss in their last 10 games.

• Cerezo are unbeaten in 7 league games.

• Nagoya are in miserable form with no wins in their last 7 including 4 losses on the bounce.

• Sapporo have lost their last 8 games failing to score in each of their last 4 games.

Predicted Lineups

These will be published tomorrow.

SO5 Analysis

Best xG - Kobe (xG 2.2)

Best Clean sheet odds - Hiroshima (54%), Kobe (48%)

Best Stack - Kobe

Kobe are playing bottom side Sapporo and unsurprisingly have the most favourable odds for a win and clean sheet.

Hiroshima have good clean sheet odds against Fukuoka. Though this is a decent fixture, Hiroshima have been conceding a lot of sloppy goals.

YFM are in crisis and have lost 4 in a row and conceeded two bad goals midweek against J2 opposition. Pressure is mounting on Harry Kewells job and players have spoken out about being unclear what the tactics are. In general, I would avoid them in any major team for now.

Nagoya are also in poor form and I like Kashiwas chances for a clean sheet here too.