📏 Form Guide

Cerezo Osaka

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Cerezo Osaka enter this game following on from a 2-2 J1 League draw against Yokohama F. Marinos.

In that game, Cerezo Osaka had 43% possession and 18 attempts on goal with 8 of them on target. The only player to score for Cerezo Osaka was Léo Ceará (45', 68'). For their opponents, Yokohama F. Marinos got 9 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Kota Mizunuma (17') and Keigo Sakakibara (59') scored for Yokohama F. Marinos.

Cerezo Osaka have been on a persistent run of goalscoring form, finding the back of the net in one hundred percent of their last 6 games.

They’ve totted up the amount of 7 during that period while also conceding a total of 5. We will see if that trend will be continued on into this next match.

Going into this encounter, Cerezo Osaka have not been beaten in their last 5 home league matches.

Consadole Sapporo

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In their last game, Consadole Sapporo drew 3-3 in the J1 League tie with Shonan Bellmare.

In that match, Consadole Sapporo managed 47% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 4 on target. For Consadole Sapporo, the goals were scored by Ryota Aoki (23', 54') and Tomoki Kondo (42'). On the other side, Shonan Bellmare had 15 shots at goal with 10 of them on target. Taiga Hata (67'), Sho Fukuda (85') and Yuto Suzuki (93') scored for Shonan Bellmare.

The stats tell the story, and Consadole Sapporo have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, with opponents netting 8 goals in all. At the back, Consadole Sapporo have clearly had some problems.

Leading up to this clash, Consadole Sapporo:

• have not been beaten by Cerezo Osaka when having played them away from home in the previous 3 league matches.
• have not won away from home in their last 4 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking over their prior head-to-head clashes dating back to 08/09/2021 shows us that Cerezo Osaka have won 2 of these games and Consadole Sapporo 3, with the number of drawn matches being 1.

A lot of goals were also scored during this period, 22 in all at an average of 3.67 goals per match.

The previous league clash featuring the two was J1 League match day 18 on 24/06/2023 when the final score was Consadole Sapporo 1-4 Cerezo Osaka.

In that match, Consadole Sapporo had 67% possession and 15 shots on goal with 1 of them on target. Their only player to score was Takuma Arano (45').

For their opponents, Cerezo Osaka had 9 attempts at goal with 7 on target. Léo Ceará (2'), Mutsuki Kato (17'), Hinata Kida (38') and Shinji Kagawa (76') scored.

The referee was Ryo Tanimoto.

📋 Team News: Cerezo Osaka

There’s just one fitness concern for the Cerezo Osaka boss Akio Kogiku to be concerned with thanks to an almost full-strength group. Ryosuke Shindo (Hamstring injury) is out of contention.

It looks as if Sakura could use the 4-1-2-3 formation for this game, beginning the first half with Jin-Hyeon Kim, Seiya Maikuma, Koji Toriumi, Kakeru Funaki, Kyohei Noborizato, Shunta Tanaka, Masaya Shibayama, Hiroaki Okuno, Jordy Croux, Leo and Lucas Fernandes.

ℹ️ Team News: Consadole Sapporo

Consadole Sapporo boss Mihailo Petrović has multiple availability issues to deal with. Kazuki Fukai (Cruciate ligament surgery) and Shun Takagi (Cruciate ligament injury) will not be playing here.

From our viewpoint, Consa appear most likely to begin the game with a 3-4-2-1 lineup, starting the game with Takanori Sugeno, Seiya Baba, Rei Ieizumi, Daiki Suga, Tomoki Kondo, Ryota Aoki, Yoshiaki Komai, Takuma Arano, Yuya Asano, Supachok Sarachart and Musashi Suzuki.

🧠 Prediction

In this game, Consadole Sapporo have it in them to find the net against this Cerezo Osaka lineup, however that possibly won’t quite be enough to avoid a loss.

We are anticipating a very close game with a 2-1 victory for Cerezo Osaka by the time that the referee blows the final whistle. Should be a good one.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 05:09 03/05/2024