Having benefitted from a succession of Australian head coaches, Yokohama F. Marinos saw it fit to once again embrace the trend and make Socceroos legend Harry Kewell their next manager at the beginning of the 2024 J1 League season. Kewell was looking to put his poor managerial record behind him,...
Most Europeans are not very connected to far eastern football like the J1 League in Japan. If you were to ask random football fans to name Japanese Teams, they would probably name the likes of Vissel Kobe, but only because players like Andrés Iniesta or David Villa have played there...
Machida Zelvia have only been in the J League pyramid for a little over 10 years. In the last decade, the team has mainly stayed in the J2 league, moving up from the J3. However, since manager Go Koruda arrived in 2023, the club has been able to play at...
As the J1 League approaches the halfway point of its season, Vissel Kobe currently occupy the summit of Japan’s top division. Level on points with Yokohama F Marinos, but having played a game less, Vissel’s rapid rise has been propelled by head coach Takayuki Yoshida. The Ushi have won 10...
Once upon a time, Gary Lineker donned the colours of Nagoya Grampus – in fact, the Japanese side was his final club before the former Barcelona striker hung up his boots. In the year followed that followed Lineker’s departure, a Frenchman by the name of Arséne Wenger took over as...
Urawa Red Diamonds haven't enjoyed the best of starts to their J1 League campaign as they currently find themselves down in eighth place, nine points behind current leaders Vissel Kobe. It was announced in December 2022 that Maciej Skorża would take charge of The Reds ahead of the 2023 season. ...
Last week, the 2023 J1 League season got underway. This league has grown in stature in recent years, with some clubs in a few of Europe’s top leagues, such as the Scottish Premiership (notably Celtic), the Belgian First Division A, the EPL and the German Bundesliga all turning their heads...
Yokohama F. Marinos, Australia, and the Old Firm Derby have all been involved in a strange love triangle in recent years. Over the past decade, the club brought Japan and Celtic legend Shunsuke Nakamura back, appointing him as captain until his departure in 2017. A year later, the Australia men’s...
In this data analysis piece, we will look to identify ball-playing centre backs in the J1 League who may be a target for Ange Postecoglou’s Celtic. With a league and league cup double in the bag, and a place in the group stages of next season’s Champions League confirmed, Celtic’s...
In the fourth section of a data analysis series looking at the best players in Asia, we’ll focus on attacking players. The leagues selected for this analysis are the following: Qatar Stars League, United Arab Emirates Pro League, Saudi Professional League, Japanese J1 League, South Korean K League and Chinese...
Daizen Maeda (173cm/5’8”, 68kg/150lbs) is currently the top scorer in one of the most successful football divisions in Asia — Japan’s J1 League, where he plays primarily as a right-footed left-winger but occasionally as a centre-forward for second-placed Yokohama F Marinos under former EPL and EFL Championship centre-back, Kevin Muscat....
In the third section of a data analysis series looking at the best players in Asia, we’ll focus on central midfielders. The leagues selected for this analysis are the following: Qatar Stars League, United Arab Emirates Pro League, Saudi Professional League, Japanese J1 League, South Korean K League and Chinese...
In the second section of a data analysis series looking at the best players in Asia, we’ll focus on full-backs. The leagues selected for this analysis are the following: Qatar Stars League, United Arab Emirates Pro League, Saudi Professional League, Japanese J1 League, South Korean K League and Chinese Super...
In the first section of a data analysis series looking at the best players in Asia, we'll focus on centre-backs. The leagues selected for this analysis are the following: Qatar Stars League, United Arab Emirates Pro League, Saudi Professional League, Japanese J1 League, South Korean K League and Chinese Super...
No team would have wanted to play against Gamba Osaka at this juncture, with the Osaka-based side winning all of their last six matches whereas there seems to be no end to Yokohama F. Marinos’ topsy-turvy start. The reigning champions started the J1 League campaign on a poor note and...
So far during the 2020 J1 League season, supporters of both Shonan Bellmare and Shimizu S-Pulse have had little to shout about in terms of results on the pitch, as both are enduring difficult campaigns. Heading into the latest round of matches, the Hiratsuka and Shimizu-ku clubs sat at the...
The reigning champion vs the team which has the most probability of dethroning the champions is itself an intriguing affair. Yokohama F. Marinos might be the 2019 J1 League champion but have started poorly in this campaign. Before the weekend fixture against Kawasaki Frontale, Yokohama based club lingered in the...
Yokohama F. Marinos are back. The reigning champions had an abysmal start to the season winning just three out of the first ten J1 League matches. Since then, the Marinos have turned it around winning all the three games. The last win came against Consadole Sapporo in their home day...
Possession-based game vs counterattack. A fixture involving Yokohama F. Marinos is bound to give us a similar spectacle. The Yokohama-based club keeps 67.19% possession per game in the J1 League this season and averages 702.11 passes per game. The Marinos indulge in 44.22 positional attacks and concede 4.56 counter-attacks per game. Nothing was...
The start of the 2020 J1 League has not been ideal for the reigning champions, Yokohama F. Marinos, with four points from three games before this high-voltage clash. FC Tokyo, the runner-up of last season enjoyed back to back wins in the starting games but faced a heavy defeat against...
