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• Albirex Niigata host Shonan Bellmare on 2025-05-25 at 06:00 GMT, as part of week 18 of the 2025's J1 League in Denka Big Swan Stadium.
• With the data available to us, D. Kimori and S. Yamaguchi have not met as managers before.
• Albirex Niigata have accumulated 13 points to lie 19th whereas Shonan Bellmare have 21 points to sit 14th.
• Albirex Niigata and Shonan Bellmare will both field their strongest squads with no absentees.
• Our forecast has Albirex Niigata in a 4-man backline (4-4-2), with Shonan Bellmare set to counter in 3-1-4-2.
• The previous match saw S. Fujiwara lead Albirex Niigata with a 7.3 TheyScored rating, and N. Kamifukumoto top-rating for Shonan Bellmare at 7.3.
• Both teams are coming from different results: Albirex Niigata fell 0-2 against Tokyo Verdy, while Shonan Bellmare prevailed 1-0 over Tokyo.
• Neither side is flying – Albirex Niigata 1-1-3 and Shonan Bellmare 2-0-3 over the last 5 matches.
• Albirex Niigata have clearly got the edge H2H: in 13 meetings, they've beaten Shonan Bellmare 7 times, with 2 draws and only 4 losses.
• With both sides enjoying similar home/away returns (0-5-3 vs 3-2-4) and scoring roughly 1.38-0.75 goals, a 1-1 draw seems on the cards.

Predictions

Summary

Match Info

25/05/2025 05:00

Denka Big Swan Stadium

M. Petersen

J1 League

Team Kits

Events

20'		0 - 1	Luiz Phellype T. Hata
31'	K. Taniguchi	1 - 1
HT 1 - 1
56'			Y. Oda Luiz Phellype
71'	K. Taniguchi Y. Komi	2 - 1
80'	Danilo Gomes J. Okumura
80'			A. Barada T. Hiraoka
80'			S. Matsumura K. Okuno
80'			S. Ishibashi T. Hata
83'	K. Kasai K. Taniguchi
89'	K. Yamura Y. Komi
89'	F. Hayakawa Y. Horigome
90'			R. Nemoto M. Ikeda

Stats

Lineups

Albirex NiigataShonan Bellmare

Albirex Niigata 4-4-2 D. Kimori

6.9

Daisuke Yoshimitsu

6.9

Soya Fujiwara

7.5

Jason Geria

6.9

Michael James Fitzgerald

?

Fumiya Hayakawa

?

Ken Yamura

6.9

Taiki Arai

7.2

Yuji Hoshi

6.7

Danilo Gomes

6.3

Keisuke Kasai

6.9

Motoki Hasegawa

Substitute Players

31

Yuto Horigome

16

Yota Komi

30

Jin Okumura

7

Kaito Taniguchi

33

Yoshiaki Takagi

8

Eiji Miyamoto

42

Kento Hashimoto

35

Kazuhiko Chiba

1

Kazuki Fujita

Shonan Bellmare 3-1-4-2 S. Yamaguchi

6.7

Naoto Kamifukumoto

7

Taiga Hata

7.5

Yuto Suzuki

6.6

Koki Tachi

7.3

Junnosuke Suzuki

6.9

Sere Matsumura

6.3

Tomoya Fujii

?

Ryo Nemoto

6.3

Akimi Barada

6.5

Yutaro Oda

7.3

Akito Suzuki

Substitute Players

15

Kohei Okuno

18

Masaki Ikeda

13

Taiyo Hiraoka

27

Luiz Phellype

22

Kazuki Oiwa

8

Kazunari Ono

20

Sena Ishibashi

25

Hiroaki Okuno

31

Kota Sanada

H2H

Standings

TotalHomeAway

#	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	PTS	Recent Form
1	Kashima Antlers	19	13	1	5	29	15	14	40	W L W W W
2	Kyoto Sanga	20	10	4	6	30	22	8	34	W L W D W
3	Urawa Reds	21	9	7	5	26	20	6	34	W D L D W
4	Kashiwa Reysol	19	9	7	3	22	17	5	34	L D L W W
5	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	18	10	2	6	20	14	6	32	L W W W W
6	Vissel Kobe	18	9	3	6	23	19	4	30	W L W W L
7	Kawasaki Frontale	18	7	8	3	30	19	11	29	W D D W W
8	Cerezo Osaka	20	8	5	7	30	26	4	29	W D W L W
9	Shimizu S-Pulse	19	7	4	8	26	26	0	25	L W L D L
10	Machida Zelvia	19	7	4	8	22	23	-1	25	L D W D L
11	Fagiano Okayama	19	6	6	7	16	17	-1	24	D D W L D
12	Gamba Osaka	19	7	3	9	23	27	-4	24	L D L L W
13	Tokyo Verdy	19	6	6	7	13	18	-5	24	D W L L W
14	Nagoya Grampus	19	6	5	8	24	26	-2	23	W W D D D
15	Avispa Fukuoka	19	6	5	8	15	19	-4	23	D L D L L
16	Shonan Bellmare	19	6	4	9	14	23	-9	22	D L L W L
17	Yokohama	19	5	4	10	13	20	-7	19	L D W L W
18	Tokyo	18	5	4	9	17	26	-9	19	L L L W W
19	Albirex Niigata	18	3	7	8	19	27	-8	16	L W L D L
20	Yokohama F. Marinos	18	3	5	10	18	26	-8	14	W W L L L

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