Cerezo Osaka vs Shonan Bellmare Prediction & Betting Tips

Shonan Bellmare will be at Yanmar Stadium Nagai on Wednesday for the J1 League showdown with hosts Cerezo Osaka.

Our full set of predictions, statistics and match poll for Cerezo Osaka v Shonan Bellmare can be seen below (inc. the best betting odds).

📊 Form Guide

Cerezo Osaka

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Cerezo Osaka will be looking for an improved result here after a 1-0 J1 League defeat in their last game at the hands of Nagoya Grampus.

Mateus (90') scored for Nagoya Grampus.

It has been seldom in recent games that Cerezo Osaka have kept a clean sheet. It will be a concern for them that Sakura have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 10 goals along the way. We will see whether or not that trend will end up being sustained here.

A look at their previous results shows us that Cerezo Osaka:

• have not lost a league tie with Shonan Bellmare in their last 10 games. Quite a long unbeaten run against them.
• are without a win at home for the past 2 league games.

Shonan Bellmare

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Since being beaten in their last game against Consadole Sapporo in J1 League action, Shonan Bellmare and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

The only player to score from Shonan Bellmare was Daiki Kaneko (36').

The attacking players from Shonan Bellmare have failed to get amongst the goals over their previous 6 games, netting the disappointing return of just 2. In those matches, Shonan have also seen the collective goal aggregate of opposing teams equal 8.

Their prior results show that Shonan Bellmare:

• have not won against Cerezo Osaka when they've played them away from home in the last 5 matches in the league. Not good at all.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 2 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

A study of their past head to head meetings stretching back to 19/10/2013 shows that these encounters have not been happy ones for Shonan Bellmare. They have not been able to get themselves any victories at all while Cerezo Osaka have been too good for them, running out winners in 83% of those matches played.

12 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 9 for Sakura and 3 being from Shonan. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.

🗞️ Team News: Cerezo Osaka

Riku Matsuda (Calf Injury) and Ken Tokura (Adductor problems) won’t be playing for Cerezo gaffer Miguel Lotina.

🗞️ Team News: Shonan Bellmare

Shonan manager Bin Ukishima has some current player fitness concerns. Kazuki Oiwa (Fractured Eye Socket) and Yuki Ohashi (Collarbone fracture) are not able to play.

💡 Prediction

When taking all factors into account, Cerezo Osaka should be able to create a good number of chances & successful shots on target.

However, Shonan Bellmare may well struggle to score themselves - but, we do see them converting at least once here.

We can therefore see a pretty comfortable 3-1 margin for Cerezo Osaka at the end of the match.

Victor Martins, 23:12 09/10/2020