📊 Form Guide

FC Tokyo

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FC Tokyo will be looking to improve on their last outing here after the 3-0 J1 League losing effort in their last game against Kyoto Sanga.

In that match, FC Tokyo had 64% possession and 8 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. At the other end, Kyoto Sanga got 15 shots on goal with 6 on target. Sota Kawasaki (32'), Shohei Takeda (70') and Masaya Okugawa (75') scored for Kyoto Sanga.

It’s not been often in recent times that FC Tokyo have shown defensive steel. The reality is that FC Tokyo have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 12 goals during that time.

Coming into this clash, FC Tokyo haven't lost in the league to Cerezo Osaka in their last 4 games.

Cerezo Osaka

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After tasting defeat last time out to Yokohama FC in J. League Cup action, Cerezo Osaka and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

Kaito Mori (45'), Lara (84') and Musashi Suzuki (89') scored for Yokohama FC. The game was won by Yokohama FC in extra time.

Showing their bias toward eventful encounters, goals have been scored 22 times in the last six matches in which Cerezo Osaka have sent out their troops, giving an average of 3.67 goals per clash. Opposition teams have got 8 from this total. Such a pattern isn’t assured to be carried forward into this next game, however.

Ahead of this meeting, Cerezo Osaka are without a win away from home in their last 2 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

An examination of their prior head-to-head meetings going back to 15/04/2023 shows us that FC Tokyo have won 2 of these & Cerezo Osaka 1, with the number of drawn matches being 3.

A combined sum of 13 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 8 for FC Tokyo and 5 being from Sakura. The average goals per game has been 2.17.

The previous league encounter featuring these clubs was J1 League match day 11 on 20/04/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Cerezo Osaka 1-1 FC Tokyo.

That time, Cerezo Osaka managed 58% possession and 15 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Ratão (6').

FC Tokyo got 10 shots at goal with 1 on target. Kein Sato (19') scored.

The match was refereed by Yudai Yamamoto.

📋 Team News: FC Tokyo

Seung-gyu Kim (Cruciate ligament tear), Taiyo Yamaguchi (Torn ankle ligaments), Henrique Trevisan (Calf injury), Tsuyoshi Ogashiwa (Acromioclavicular joint dislocation) and Yuta Arai (Cruciate ligament injury) won’t be playing for FC Tokyo gaffer Rikizo Matsuhashi.

🗞️ Team News: Cerezo Osaka

Cerezo Osaka manager Arthur Papas has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Satoki Uejo (Cruciate ligament injury), Shunta Tanaka (Cruciate ligament injury), Yuichi Hirano (Meniscus injury) and Shion Homma (Forearm fracture) are names that won’t be on the team sheet.

✨ Prediction

FC Tokyo could find themselves up against it to put one past this Cerezo Osaka side who we reckon will manage to score & go ahead.

With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a very even match with a 0-1 winning margin for Cerezo Osaka at full-time.

Hoping for a good game.

Peter Guest, 09:01 14/06/2025