Match Report
13 points and 6 places separated them: Machida Zelvia 1st with 13, Kawasaki Frontale 7th with 0.
Machida Zelvia's unbeaten run stood at 5. Kawasaki Frontale had not lost in 7 games.
The head-to-head ledger counts 5 games: 1 Machida Zelvia win, 2 for Kawasaki Frontale, 2 draws, at 3.6 goals per meeting. The host's record in this fixture is thin — 20% of meetings won. Three-plus goals is the norm here, arriving in 60% of the meetings, and both sides scored in 60%.
Machida Athletic Stadium staged the fixture, a ground that holds 15,320. The referee was Ming Fu, with 11 matches in our database and 0.3 yellows per game on average. It was 0-0 at the break, and the second half added 3 goals for the 2-1 full-time score.
Goal scorers
Machida Zelvia: Koki Ogawa (75'), Koki Ogawa (81') · Kawasaki Frontale: Yasuto Wakizaka (59')
Key stats
Possession: Machida Zelvia 48% · Kawasaki Frontale 52% · Total shots: 13-9 · On target: 5-2 · Corners: 6-2