Kawasaki Frontale vs Kyoto Sanga — Tips & Analysis

Under 2.75: These two have a long history of tight, low scoring games, and that is the reason we want the goals to stay down. Kawasaki and Kyoto have met nine times and won three each, with three ties. Those nine games averaged just over 2 goals. Kawasaki are not the team they were. They have won 6 of their last 19, and they were poor at home last season, winning 3 and losing 4 of nine there. They score just over a goal a game. Kyoto are worse going forward on the road. They scored under a goal a game away from home and lost 6 of their 10 away games. They sit deep and are happy to keep a game slow. Neither side creates much, and both have had 6 days off. Expect a careful game decided by one moment at each end. A 1-1 is the likely finish, and that keeps the total low. The danger is Kyoto's habit of falling apart once a game gets away from them. They lost 2-6 to Kashiwa and 0-4 to Hiroshima last season, and 10 of their last 19 games had 3 or more goals. That is a real warning. The shape of this one still points the other way, and we want the quiet game.