After an impressive run for the J League title last season, FC Tokyo will be eager to strike authority in their opening game against Shimizu S-Pulse on Sunday, while playing away from home. FC Tokyo was on top of the league for the majority of the season the last time around but unfortunately slipped in their final few games, which Yokohama F Marinos took advantage of and won the title.
As for S-Pulse, they will now be under the managerial leadership of Peter Cklmovski for the new season. Cklamovski belonged to the coaching staff at Marinos in the previous edition. Shimizu S-Pulse finished 12th with 39 points in the 2019 season and will want to be higher up the table this time.
Match Details
Date- Sunday, February 22
KickOff- 9:30 AM (IST)
Venue- IAI Stadium Nihondaira
Shimizu S-Pulse
Squad- Neto Volpi, Takuo Okubo (injured), Togo Umdeda, Yoshiaki Arai, Yohei Nishibe, Yugo Tatsuta, Valdo, Seok-ho Hwang, Naoya Fukumori, Kazunori Yoshimoto (inured), Makoto Okazaki, Erick Noriega, Takashi Kanai, Kenta Ito, Elsinho, Ryo Okui, Y Nishimura, Ryo Takeuchi (c), Renato Augusto (Injured), M Musaka, K Miyamoto, S Kaneko, K Nishizawa, Y Taki, Y Kawai, H Ishige, R Kawamoto, Ibrahim Jr, Kurihara, Y Suzuki, Y Goto, K Nakamura, C Junior, T Dangda, Jr. Durta, Chong Tese, J Hiratsuka
FC Tokyo
Squad- A Hayashi, T Kodama, G Hatano, T Brandon, Hotaka Nakamura, M Morishige, T Watanbe, J Oumari, D Niwa, S Kimura, R Ogawa, K Begunagande, S Muroya, T Nakamura, K Hashimoto, A Silva, M Shinada, R Hirakawa, S Abe, H Mita, Y Takahagi, Y Suzuki (injured), K Konno, Sang-ho Na, K Miyazaki, T Uchida (injured), K Higashi (c) (injured), Adailton, Leandro, D Oliveira, K Nagai (injured), K Tagawa, T Hara, K Yajima
The arrival of Brazilian forward Carlinhos could pose a threat in the opposition box from S Pulse’s end.
Grand League Tips
FC Tokoyo recently signed Leandro on loan from Kashima Antlers. Leandro has scored 13 goals and has eight assists from his last 50 games in the J League.
FC Tokyo has had the upper hand by winnings three of their last four games against S-Pulse.
FC Tokyo are the favourites heading into the game.
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