Cerezo Osaka vs Tokyo Verdy Live Stream, Predictions (Jun 21)

📊 Form Guide

Cerezo Osaka

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Cerezo Osaka enter this game following on from a 2-2 J1 League drawn game against FC Tokyo.

In that game, Cerezo Osaka had 60% possession and 12 shots on goal with 6 on target. For Cerezo Osaka, goals were scored by Ratão (41') and Shunta Tanaka (71'). For their opponents, FC Tokyo got 21 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Ryan (3', 81') was the scorer for FC Tokyo.

Matches involving Cerezo Osaka have proved to be lively affairs recently with high scoring expected. Over their past six clashes alone, the sum of 21 goals have flown in for both sides combined (at an average of 3.5 goals per game) with 12 of these accredited to Cerezo Osaka.

Looking at their past form shows that Cerezo Osaka:

• haven't beaten Tokyo Verdy in their previous 2 league games.
• are unbeaten in their previous 3 league matches at home.

Tokyo Verdy

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After suffering a loss in their previous game against Kashiwa Reysol in J1 League competition, Tokyo Verdy and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that match, Tokyo Verdy had 44% possession and 7 attempts on goal with 0 on target. At the other end, Kashiwa Reysol got 11 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Tojiro Kubo (27'), Yoshio Koizumi (45') and Mao Hosoya (93') scored for Kashiwa Reysol.

A tendency of at least one team not managing to score in games involving Tokyo Verdy has been fairly consistent of late. Examining their last 6 outings shows that this has happened 5 times. In those clashes, opposing sides have hit a goal total of 8 while Tokyo Verdy have scored 4. That sort of pattern isn’t assured to be sustained into this match, though.

Analysis of their past results shows that Tokyo Verdy:

• have not emerged victorious against Cerezo Osaka in games played away from home for the previous 5 league matches. Not good.
• are without an away win for the past 3 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at their prior head-to-head clashes dating back to 23/11/2015 shows us that Cerezo Osaka have won 4 of these games & Tokyo Verdy 1, with the tally of drawn results standing at 1.

A combined sum of 12 goals were produced between them in this period, with 8 of them for Sakura and 4 for Tokyo Verdy. That’s an average goals per game of 2.

The last league contest featuring these sides was J1 League match day 12 on 25/04/2025 when it finished Tokyo Verdy 1-0 Cerezo Osaka.

On that occasion, Tokyo Verdy had 25% possession and 15 shots on goal with 5 on target. Their only player to score was Yuta Arai (33').

On the other side, Cerezo Osaka got 15 shots at goal with 7 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Ryo Tanimoto.

📋 Team News: Cerezo Osaka

Satoki Uejo (Cruciate ligament injury), Shion Homma (Forearm fracture), Yuichi Hirano (Meniscus injury) and Shunta Tanaka (Cruciate ligament injury) are not available for Cerezo Osaka boss Arthur Papas.

ℹ️ Team News: Tokyo Verdy

From a largely full-strength group of players, there’s just a single fitness problem for the Tokyo Verdy boss Hiroshi Jofuku to be concerned about. Goki Yamada (Torn knee ligaments) won’t be in action.

💡 Prediction

We’re of the opinion that Tokyo Verdy will have to work hard as a team to register a score against this Cerezo Osaka side who we reckon should score at least once to gain the upper hand.

That’s why our selection here is for a very even match with a 1-0 winning score for Cerezo Osaka at the end of the 90 minutes.

Let’s see.

💵 ⚽️ What are the best odds for this match?

Looking at the betting prices for the match on the full-time result market, staking on Cerezo Osaka is best priced at 2.05, a bet on the draw is 3.4 and staking on victory for Tokyo Verdy gets 3.5. Those are the top bets available at the moment.

Peter Guest, 04:02 17/06/2025