The Saudi giants will be up against Japanese representatives, Yokohama Marinos

Al Nassr will pause their domestic engagements as the Champions League resumes for the quarter-finals in Asia. The Saudi giants will be up against Japanese representatives, Yokohama Marinos. Read on for our prediction of the match, with the winner to meet Kawasaki Frontale or Al Sadd.

Yokohama will welcome some continental action with both hands. They’re really struggling in domestic action and could do with some break. In their last seven matches, the Japanese side hasn’t won.

However, when they clocked out of the Champions League after the first phase, they were on six wins in seven, with just one loss. At home, they are unbeaten in 11 straight matches in the Champions League.

Al Nassr are on a much better run ahead of this match and will want to extend the same. They are coming from a 3-2 win over Damac, recovering from a 2-1 loss at Al-Qadsiah.

Sultan Al Ghannam’s stoppage-time goal granted them the three points, and they’ll hope not to wait that long in this Champions League match. For all their good performances, though, Al Nassr have seriously fallen short defensively.

They come here without a clean sheet in their last five matches, while they have just three in the past 10 games. There is an improvement on this trend in the Champions League, with the Saudi side keeping four straight clean sheets.