Cerezo Osaka vs Yokohama F. Marinos Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Cerezo Osaka

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Cerezo Osaka will be hoping to bounce back here following the 2-1 J1 League loss in their previous game against Nagoya Grampus.

In that game, Cerezo Osaka had 66% possession and 15 shots on goal with 3 on target. The only player to score for Cerezo Osaka was Léo Ceará (67'). Nagoya Grampus had 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 meeting after a 3-2 AFC Champions League win with the downing of Ulsan Hyundai in their last fixture.

For Yokohama F. Marinos, the scorers were Asahi Uenaka (13', 30') and Anderson Lopes (21'). Matheus Sales (35') and Darijan Bojanić (42') scored for Ulsan Hyundai. Yokohama F. Marinos ran out winners after a 5-4 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

Checking out their prior head to head meetings stretching back to 06/04/2021, there has been little between the sides with Cerezo Osaka winning 2 of those games, Yokohama F. Marinos 2 and 2 being drawn in normal time.

17 goals were scored between them in these games, with 8 for Sakura and 9 netted by Marinos. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.83.

The last league match between these sides was J1 League match day 32 on 12/11/2023 when it ended Yokohama F. Marinos 2-0 Cerezo Osaka.

In that game, Yokohama F. Marinos had 45% possession and 20 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Goals were scored by Yan Matheus (41') and Élber (45').

Cerezo Osaka got 8 shots on goal with 2 on target.

The referee was Hiroyuki Kimura.

📰 Team News: Cerezo Osaka

Ryosuke Shindo (Hamstring injury) and Shinnosuke Kinoshita (Hamstring muscle injury) are not available for Cerezo Osaka boss Akio Kogiku. Justin Hubner is ineligible for this match because of suspension.

ℹ️ Team News: Yokohama F. Marinos

Due to a fully healthy group to pick from, the Yokohama F. Marinos manager Harry Kewell has zero fitness worries at all before 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, 04:12 26/04/2024