Cerezo Osaka vs Yokohama F. Marinos Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Cerezo Osaka

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Cerezo Osaka will be hoping for a better result following a 2-1 J1 League loss in their previous game against Nagoya Grampus.

In that match, Cerezo Osaka managed 66% possession and 15 attempts at goal with 3 on target. The scorer for Cerezo Osaka was Léo Ceará (67'). For their opponents, Nagoya Grampus got 6 shots at goal with 4 on target. Kennedy Egbus Mikuni (65') and Kensuke Nagai (82') scored for Nagoya Grampus.

Cerezo Osaka haven’t been able to stop scoring goals, hitting the target in one hundred percent of their last 6 matches.

They have managed to rack up 7 during that time and have conceded a total of 3.

Going into this one, Cerezo Osaka are unbeaten in their last 4 league matches at home.

Yokohama F. Marinos

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Yokohama F. Marinos head into the encounter following a 3-2 AFC Champions League win in the defeat of Ulsan Hyundai in their most recent fixture.

For Yokohama F. Marinos, the goals were scored by Asahi Uenaka (13', 30') and Anderson Lopes (21'). Matheus Sales (35') and Darijan Bojanić (42') scored for Ulsan Hyundai. Yokohama F. Marinos won the match 5-4 in a dramatic penalty shootout.

Throughout their 6 latest matches, Harry Kewell's Yokohama F. Marinos have found the net 7 times thus giving them the goals per game average of 1.17.

Ahead of this meeting, Yokohama F. Marinos haven't won against Cerezo Osaka in away games against them for the last 10 matches in the league. Very poor away form.

↔️ Head to head

If we look at their past head to head meetings going back to 06/04/2021, neither club has come out on top overall with Cerezo Osaka winning 2 of those games, Yokohama F. Marinos 2 and 2 being drawn in regulation time.

A combined total of 17 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 8 for Sakura and 9 netted by Marinos. That is an average goals per game value of 2.83.

The previous league fixture featuring these sides was J1 League match day 32 on 12/11/2023 when it finished Yokohama F. Marinos 2-0 Cerezo Osaka.

That day, Yokohama F. Marinos managed 45% possession and 20 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. The scorers were Yan Matheus (41') and Élber (45').

Cerezo Osaka got 8 shots at goal with 2 of them on target.

The referee was Hiroyuki Kimura.

📰 Team News: Cerezo Osaka

Ryosuke Shindo (Hamstring injury) and Shinnosuke Kinoshita (Hamstring muscle injury) are unavailable for Cerezo Osaka manager Akio Kogiku. Justin Hubner will not be able to play in this game through being suspended.

ℹ️ Team News: Yokohama F. Marinos

With a fully injury-free squad to choose from, the Yokohama F. Marinos manager Harry Kewell has no fitness worries whatsoever coming into this clash.

💭 Prediction

We think that Yokohama F. Marinos might have a difficult job to get anything against this Cerezo Osaka side who we reckon should score & stay on top.

We’re therefore seeing a very competitive encounter with a 1-0 victory for Cerezo Osaka at the end of the 90 minutes.

Looking forward to this.

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Victor Martins, 19:18 26/04/2024