Cerezo Osaka vs Fagiano Okayama Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Cerezo Osaka

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Cerezo Osaka will play in this game following a 1-1 J1 League drawn match versus Urawa Red Diamonds.

In that match, Cerezo Osaka managed 48% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 3 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Cerezo Osaka was Rafael Ratão (2'). On the other side, Urawa Red Diamonds got 15 shots on goal with 3 on target. Ryoma Watanabe (83') scored for Urawa Red Diamonds.

It’s been seldom in recent games that Cerezo Osaka have shown defensive steel. In fact, Cerezo Osaka have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 9 goals on the way.

Taking a look at their past results, Cerezo Osaka:

• are undefeated in their last 2 league matches at home.
• are without a win at home for the past 4 league games. Things will have to change soon.

Fagiano Okayama

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Fagiano Okayama will go into the match following a 1-0 J1 League win to defeat Yokohama F. Marinos in their last fixture.

In that match, Fagiano Okayama managed 32% possession and 8 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. The only player to score for Fagiano Okayama was Lucão (67'). At the other end, Yokohama F. Marinos had 12 shots at goal with 4 of them on target.

A series of steadfast performances from the Fagiano Okayama defensive players has seen the number of goals they’ve conceded amounting to 3 from their previous 6 fixtures combined. In that period, their own forwards have managed to score 4. That sort of pattern might not follow through into this game, though.

Coming into this meeting, Fagiano Okayama are without an away win for the past 3 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

Looking over their past head to head meetings stretching back to 13/09/2009 shows that these encounters have been miserable for Fagiano Okayama. They’ve not managed to get themselves any wins at all whereas Cerezo Osaka have maintained the edge over them, finishing as winners in 67 per cent of those matches.

A sum of 15 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 10 for Sakura and 5 coming from Okayama. That’s an average goals per game of 2.5.

ℹ️ Team News: Cerezo Osaka

Kyohei Noborizato (Hamstring injury) and Yuichi Hirano (Meniscus injury) aren’t available for Cerezo Osaka gaffer Arthur Papas.

✨ Prediction

Our thinking is that Fagiano Okayama will need to apply a lot of pressure to breach the defence of this Cerezo Osaka team who we reckon will manage to score & go ahead.

That’s why our selection here is for a very competitive game with a 1-0 advantage for Cerezo Osaka when all is said and done.

We’ll see what happens.

Peter Guest, 01:03 01/04/2025