📏 Form Guide

Cerezo Osaka

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Cerezo Osaka will want to continue from where they left off last time out with a 3-4 J. League Cup success over FC Imabari.

For Cerezo Osaka, goals were scored by Vitor Bueno (12'), Jaroensak Wonggorn (15'), Shinji Kagawa (80') and Hayato Okuda (118'). Cerezo Osaka ran out winners in extra time.

Cerezo Osaka have been conceding pretty frequently lately, but they’ve also managed to hit the back of the net themselves. Analysis of their previous 6 games shows that Cerezo Osaka have been punished defensively in 5 of them as well as getting on the scoresheet in 6 of those matches.

Their previous form shows that Cerezo Osaka:

• have not registered a win against FC Tokyo in their previous 3 league matches.
• are unbeaten in their last 4 league matches at home.

FC Tokyo

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FC Tokyo head into the match following on from a 1-3 J. League Cup win vs Ōmiya Ardija in their last match.

The only scorer from FC Tokyo was Marcelo Ryan (56', 98', 105'). Kenyu Sugimoto (82') was the scorer for Ōmiya Ardija. FC Tokyo ran out winners in extra time.

The forward players for FC Tokyo have been starved of goals over their previous 6 encounters, contributing the disappointing return of only 4. In those fixtures, FC Tokyo have also seen the collective goal aggregate of their opponents equal 8. However, we will just have to wait and see if that trend might continue on here in this game.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that FC Tokyo:

• have not been beaten by Cerezo Osaka when having played them away from home in the previous 5 league games. A solid away record against them.
• are without a win away from home in their last 4 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

Checking out their prior head to head duels dating back to 08/03/2023, it’s been all-even between these two clubs with Cerezo Osaka winning 2 of those games, FC Tokyo 2 and 2 being draws in normal time.

A total of 12 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 5 from Sakura and 7 netted by FC Tokyo. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.

The previous league fixture between these sides was J1 League match day 38 on 08/12/2024 when the final score was FC Tokyo 3-0 Cerezo Osaka.

That day, FC Tokyo had 44% possession and 14 shots at goal with 7 on target. The goalscorers were Teruhito Nakagawa (12'), Takahiro Ko (42') and Henrique Trevisan (88').

Cerezo Osaka had 14 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target.

The referee was Yoshimi Yamashita.

📋 Team News: Cerezo Osaka

It’s a low absenteeism rate, with just the lone fitness concern for the Cerezo Osaka manager Arthur Papas to be concerned about from an otherwise fully-primed group of players. Yuichi Hirano (Meniscus injury) won’t play.

ℹ️ Team News: FC Tokyo

Thanks to a largely healthy squad, there’s only the sole fitness worry for the FC Tokyo boss Rikizo Matsuhashi to be concerned with. In-hwan Baek (Hamstring injury) won’t be playing here.

✨ Prediction

FC Tokyo have it within them to put a goal past this Cerezo Osaka lineup, however that probably won’t be enough to avoid a loss.

We think that it’s going to be a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 advantage for Cerezo Osaka at the end of the match. We’ll have to see what happens.

Renata Leite, 05:02 20/04/2025