Kawasaki Frontale vs Cerezo Osaka Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Kawasaki Frontale

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Kawasaki Frontale will be wanting a better result here following a 1-0 J1 League losing effort in their last game against Albirex Niigata.

In that match, Kawasaki Frontale managed 56% possession and 7 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. On the other side, Albirex Niigata got 11 shots at goal with 3 on target. Ryotaro Ito (22') scored for Albirex Niigata.

Kawasaki Frontale have not been the best at stopping their opponents recently, but they have also managed to convert their own chances into goals. Looking at their last 6 games, Kawasaki Frontale have seen their goal breached in 6 of them in addition to getting on the scoresheet in 5 of those matches. Such a pattern isn’t assured to be carried forward into this next game, though.

Looking at their past form shows that Kawasaki Frontale:

• haven't beaten Cerezo Osaka in their previous 2 league games.
• haven’t won at home in the past 2 league matches.

Cerezo Osaka

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Cerezo Osaka will go into the clash following a 2-1 J1 League win versus Sagan Tosu in their previous fixture.

In that game, Cerezo Osaka had 55% possession and 11 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. For Cerezo Osaka, the goals were scored by Shinji Kagawa (38') and Mutsuki Kato (52'). At the other end, Sagan Tosu had 8 shots on goal with 1 on target. Fuchi Honda (86') scored for Sagan Tosu.

Looking at their form, and Cerezo Osaka have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 8 goals in all. At the back, Cerezo Osaka have clearly had some problems.

Going into this contest, Cerezo Osaka have not won away from home in their last 6 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head duels stretching back to 03/03/2021, there has been little between the sides with Kawasaki Frontale winning 2 of those games, Cerezo Osaka 2 and 2 being drawn in normal time.

There were also plenty of goals scored in those games, 24 in total at an average of 4 goals per meeting.

📰 Team News: Kawasaki Frontale

Jesiel (Meniscus Damage), Yu Kobayashi (Fractured Foot) and Shintaro Kurumaya (Hamstring Injury) won’t be available for Kawasaki Frontale gaffer Tōru Oniki.

It seems likely that Kawasaki Frontale will probably kick off with a 4-1-2-3 formation this time featuring Sung-Ryong Jung, Miki Yamane, Takuma Ominami, Shuto Tanabe, Kyohei Noborizato, Joao Schmidt, Chanathip Songkrasin, Kento Tachibanada, Akihiro Ienaga, Shin Yamada and Marcinho.

🗞️ Team News: Cerezo Osaka

Out of a mainly healthy group, there is just a single fitness worry for the Cerezo Osaka gaffer Akio Kogiku to contend with. Hiroshi Kiyotake (Hamstring Injury) misses out for this game.

We’re of the thinking that Sakura might play in a 4-1-2-3 formation by sending out Jin-Hyeon Kim, Riku Matsuda, Matej Jonjic, Koji Toriumi, Ryosuke Yamanaka, Tokuma Suzuki, Hiroaki Okuno, Shinji Kagawa, Seiya Maikuma, Mutsuki Kato and Hirotaka Tameda.

💭 Prediction

We’re of the opinion that Cerezo Osaka will have to play well to find the net against this Kawasaki Frontale team who we think will likely just have the edge.

We’re therefore seeing a very competitive game with a 1-0 advantage for Kawasaki Frontale at the end of this game.

Looking forward to this.

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Peter Guest, 02:34 14/03/2023