📏 Form Guide

Kashima Antlers

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Kashima Antlers head into this fixture coming off the back of a 1-1 J1 100 Year Vision League stalemate versus FC Tokyo.

In that match, Kashima Antlers managed 42% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 4 on target. The scorer for Kashima Antlers was Tae-hyeon Kim (45'). On the other side, FC Tokyo got 22 shots on goal with 8 on target. Keita Endo (44') was the scorer for FC Tokyo. The match went to penalties and was won 4-5 by FC Tokyo.

Their more recent scorelines highlight the fact that quality has been evident in the Kashima Antlers defence. Kashima Antlers have been stingy, seeing the total number of goals that have gone past their goalkeeper over the course of their previous 6 matches standing at 4. That pattern won’t necessarily be continued into this match, though.

Yokohama F. Marinos

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Since tasting defeat last time out to Machida Zelvia in J1 100 Year Vision League action, Yokohama F. Marinos and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that game, Yokohama F. Marinos had 64% possession and 15 attempts on goal with 5 on target. For Yokohama F. Marinos, goals were scored by Daiya Tono (16') and Jordy Croux (66'). Machida Zelvia got 8 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Erik (8', 17') and Yūki Sōma (45') scored for Machida Zelvia.

In their previous half-dozen outings, Yokohama F. Marinos have helped themselves to a total of 16 goals. Yokohama F. Marinos have additionally got on the scoresheet in every single one of those games. Over that period, they have had 6 goals go into their own net.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their past head to head meetings going back to 18/03/2023 shows us that Kashima Antlers have won 2 of these and Yokohama F. Marinos 4, with the number of drawn matches being 0.

A lot of goals were also scored during this period, 23 in all which averages out at 3.83 goals per meeting.

The previous league game between these clubs was J1 League match day 38 on 06/12/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Kashima Antlers 2-1 Yokohama F. Marinos.

That day, Kashima Antlers managed 70% possession and 10 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Their only player to score was Ceará (20', 57').

Yokohama F. Marinos got 3 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. Jun Amano (91') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Hiroyuki Kimura.

📋 Team News: Kashima Antlers

Koki Anzai (Cruciate ligament injury), Ikuma Sekigawa (Torn knee ligaments), Shu Morooka (Achilles tendon rupture) and Yuta Matsumura (Acromioclavicular joint dislocation) will not be taking part for Kashima Antlers boss Tōru Oniki.

ℹ️ Team News: Yokohama F. Marinos

Yokohama F. Marinos boss Hideo Oshima has a number of players out of action. Hiroto Asada (Meniscus injury), Ken Matsubara (Meniscus injury), Il-gyu Park (Knee medial ligament tear), Aruto Higuchi (Knee medial ligament tear) and Toichi Suzuki (Meniscus injury) are names that won’t be on the team sheet.

💭 Prediction

It looks to us that Kashima Antlers will most probably score more than once when they play Yokohama F. Marinos, who could well find it tough getting goals.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a comfortable 2-0 victory for Kashima Antlers at the end of this one.

Peter Guest, 21:23 13/02/2026