Match Preview

The teams involved in today’s FC Tokyo vs Vegalta Sendai preview actually finished side by side in last year’s J-League table. After enjoying very similar campaigns, they finished it in 13^th and 12^th position respectively. In 2018, the name of the game is progression for both clubs, though experts predict another season of ups and downs for each of them.

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The home side drew their first game of the new J-League season a week prior to today’s FC Tokyo vs Vegalta Sendai betting tips, and the point they secured against Urawa Reds was their fourth home draw in five matches at the Ajinomoto Stadium. The club from the capital are now coached by former J-League Manager of the Year Kenta Hasegawa who was the boss at Gamba Osaka before taking up his new role at FC Tokyo.

Vegalta Sendai take a 100% record south to the capital this weekend having beaten Kashiwa Reysol in their first game of the 2018 season. A first half goal from Ko Itakura was enough to clinch the points against Reysol, who finished the game with ten men after Yuta Nakayama was sent off a minute before time. Susumu Watanabe’s men have only won one of their last eight on the road. Make sure to read our Japanese football betting tips further down.

FC Tokyo vs Vegalta Sendai Prediction and Betting Advice

The home side have a wonderful overall record in this fixture. They have won each of their last seven games against their Honshu neighbours and though that sequence gave us plenty think about for our FC Tokyo vs Vegalta Sendai bets, their more recent general form provides more salient information.

The Edokko have drawn four of their last five games at the Ajinomoto Stadium. In fact, in the 2017 season, they drew ten J-League fixtures in total. Only Ventforet Kofu ended level more often last year. Kenta Hasegawa watched as his team battled to a point against Urawa Reds a week ago in their opening league fixture.

Similarly, the away team in our preview have found it tough to turn draws into wins. They drew three of their last six fixtures, though 100% of those stalemates came at the back end of 2017. There is little to choose between these teams in terms of quality and the J-League football betting odds for the draw at Winner represent a great chance to maximise the return on your stake.

An inability to turn chances into goals has been a large feature of the home team’s game for quite some time. Ahead of today’s FC Tokyo vs Vegalta Sendai predictions, they have scored one goal or less in a staggering sixteen of their most recent seventeen contests in a run stretching all the way back to August of last year.

The only match in which they scored more than once was in their Asian Challenge meeting with Indonesian side Bhayangkara. They hit the net four times that day, but that result stands alone as one prolific encounter among sixteen low scoring affairs. It won’t surprise you to learn that the Edokko averaged 1.08 goals per game in the J-League in 2017.

Even when they beat Sendai at the Ajinomoto Stadium last September, they could only manage to convert one chance, eventually running out 1-0 winners. Vegalta only conceded more than once in one of their last six fixtures, so they should be capable of keeping their toothless hosts at bay for long periods this weekend. With that considered, we recommend taking the excellent odds at Sunbets for the home side to score under 1.5 goals. The value Sunbets offer for that market cannot be matched.