Kyoto Sanga vs Cerezo Osaka Live Stream, Predictions (May 21)

📏 Form Guide

Kyoto Sanga

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Kyoto Sanga, buoyed by their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after a 0-3 J1 League triumph over Yokohama F. Marinos.

In that game, Kyoto Sanga managed 41% possession and 11 shots at goal with 5 on target. For Kyoto Sanga, the goals were scored by Temma Matsuda (31'), Masaya Okugawa (67') and Shinnosuke Fukuda (81'). On the other side, Yokohama F. Marinos had 11 attempts on goal with 2 on target.

It’s been seldom in recent times where Kyoto Sanga haven’t conceded. It will be a concern for them that Kyoto Sanga have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, leaking 8 goals in the process.

Cerezo Osaka

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Since a losing effort in their last game against Kawasaki Frontale in J1 League competition, Cerezo Osaka and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that match, Cerezo Osaka managed 53% possession and 11 shots on goal with 0 of them on target. For their opponents, Kawasaki Frontale got 16 attempts at goal with 6 on target. Erison (85', 88') was the scorer for Kawasaki Frontale.

The stats don’t lie, and Cerezo Osaka have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, conceding 7 goals in total. In defence, Cerezo Osaka have not been doing too well. We will just have to find out whether or not that trend will be continued on here.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at their prior head to head clashes stretching back to 19/04/2023 tells us that Kyoto Sanga have won 3 of these games & Cerezo Osaka 2, with the tally of draws standing at 1.

A combined sum of 19 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 11 for Kyoto and 8 belonging to Sakura. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.17.

The previous league game between the two was J1 League match day 14 on 03/05/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Kyoto Sanga 2-3 Cerezo Osaka.

That day, Kyoto Sanga had 52% possession and 22 shots on goal with 6 on target. The goalscorers were Taichi Hara (12') and Temma Matsuda (14').

Cerezo Osaka got 10 shots on goal with 4 on target. Lucas Fernandes (18'), Kengo Furuyama (43') and Motohiko Nakajima (65') scored.

The match was refereed by Futoshi Nakamura.

🗞️ Team News: Kyoto Sanga

It’s a low absenteeism rate, with just the sole fitness concern for the Kyoto Sanga manager Kwi-jae Cho to be concerned about thanks to an almost full-strength group of players. Sung-yun Gu (Meniscus injury) misses out.

📰 Team News: Cerezo Osaka

From a largely healthy group of players, there’s only a single fitness problem for the Cerezo Osaka boss Arthur Papas to be concerned about. Yuichi Hirano (Meniscus injury) won’t be in action.

🧠 Prediction

Our thinking is that Cerezo Osaka and Kyoto Sanga could both well score here although it’s hard to see a clear-cut winner.

Little in this one, and it’s almost too close to call. We’re therefore tipping a hard-fought 1-1 score draw at full-time.

💵 ⚽️ What are the top odds for the game?

Checking the latest betting odds for this match in the win-draw-win market, a victory for Kyoto Sanga can be had for 2.45, going for a drawn result is 3.3 & selecting the winner to be Cerezo Osaka gets you 2.7. They are the most competitive returns offered at the current time.

Victor Martins, 19:04 19/05/2025