📏 Form Guide

Vissel Kobe

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Vissel Kobe, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following a 2-0 J1 League triumph over Fagiano Okayama.

In that game, Vissel Kobe managed 54% possession and 21 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. For Vissel Kobe, the scorers were Taisei Miyashiro (51') and Yōsuke Ideguchi (73'). Fagiano Okayama had 6 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target.

Their latest results show that things are going according to plan in the Vissel Kobe rearguard. Vissel Kobe have kept it tight, seeing the number of goals that have gone in at their end during their previous six outings standing at 2.

Looking at their past form shows that Vissel Kobe:

• haven't lost in the league to Cerezo Osaka in their previous 3 matches.
• are unbeaten in their previous 3 home league matches.

Cerezo Osaka

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Cerezo Osaka head into the encounter following a 2-3 J1 League win to beat Kyoto Sanga in their most recent outing.

In that game, Cerezo Osaka had 48% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. For Cerezo Osaka, goals were scored by Lucas Fernandes (18') and Motohiko Nakajima (65'). At the other end, Kyoto Sanga got 22 shots on goal with 6 on target. Taichi Hara (12') and Temma Matsuda (14') scored for Kyoto Sanga.

Looking at their form, and Cerezo Osaka have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, conceding 9 goals in all. At the back, Cerezo Osaka could really do with shoring things up. That being said, we’ll just have to find out whether that trend might be maintained in this next match or not.

Ahead of this clash, Cerezo Osaka have left without a victory over Vissel Kobe when they have played them away from home in the previous 2 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head duels going back to 10/04/2022, it’s been all-even between these two clubs with Vissel Kobe winning 3 of those games, Cerezo Osaka 3 and 0 being drawn in regulation time.

In all, 16 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 8 of them from Ushi and 8 belonging to Sakura. The average goals per game has been 2.67.

The last league contest between the two was J1 League match day 30 on 13/09/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Vissel Kobe 2-1 Cerezo Osaka.

The match was refereed by Takafumi Mikuriya.

🗞️ Team News: Vissel Kobe

There is just the sole fitness concern for the Vissel Kobe gaffer Takayuki Yoshida to contend with from of an almost fully healthy group. Klismahn (unknown injury) is out of contention.

📰 Team News: Cerezo Osaka

Owing to an otherwise healthy group of players, there’s only the one fitness issue for the Cerezo Osaka gaffer Arthur Papas to be concerned about. Yuichi Hirano (Meniscus injury) won’t be playing here.

🧠 Prediction

For this match, we think that Cerezo Osaka will likely be able to find the net against this Vissel Kobe lineup, however that may not prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

We’re expecting both teams to score in a 2-1 victory for Vissel Kobe by the conclusion of the game. Hopefully this is a good one.

Andre Moura, 04:09 06/05/2025