📏 Form Guide

Consadole Sapporo

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Consadole Sapporo will be wanting a better result here after the 1-2 J1 League defeat in their last game at the hands of Nagoya Grampus.

In that game, Consadole Sapporo managed 61% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 2 on target. The scorer for Consadole Sapporo was Seiya Baba (30'). On the other side, Nagoya Grampus got 6 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Tsukasa Morishima (55') and Kensuke Nagai (90') scored for Nagoya Grampus.

It’s not been often in recent games that Consadole Sapporo have kept a clean sheet. The facts show that Consadole Sapporo have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 games, letting in 15 goals in the process. In any event, time will tell whether that trend will be maintained in this game or not.

Analysis of their past results shows that Consadole Sapporo:

• have not been beaten in the league by Gamba Osaka in their previous 5 matches.
• have not won at home in their last 5 league matches. Their supporters are understandably frustrated.

Gamba Osaka

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In their last fixture, Gamba Osaka drew 0-0 in the J1 League tie with Kyoto Sanga.

In that match, Gamba Osaka managed 50% possession and 21 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. For their opponents, Kyoto Sanga got 15 shots on goal with 4 of them on target.

In 5 of the previous 6 clashes featuring Gamba Osaka, a notably low volume of goals have gone in between them and opposing teams. The overall average number of goals per game within that spell works out to a paltry 1.5, with the number of goals averaged by Gamba Osaka standing at 0.83.

Analysis of their past results shows that Gamba Osaka:

• have not emerged victorious against Consadole Sapporo in games played away from home for the previous 2 matches in the league.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 2 league matches away from home.
• have not won away from home in their last 8 league matches. Who knows how long it might last, too.

↔️ Head to head

A look at their most recent head to head clashes going back to 30/07/2021 shows that Consadole Sapporo have won 3 of these games & Gamba Osaka 1, with the number of drawn games being 2.

In all, 17 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 12 of them from Consa and 5 being from Gamba Osaka. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.83.

The previous league meeting featuring these clubs was J1 League match day 26 on 02/09/2023 when the final score was Consadole Sapporo 4-0 Gamba Osaka.

On that day, Consadole Sapporo managed 50% possession and 23 shots at goal with 8 on target. The scorers were Supachok Sarachat (13', 59'), Gun-hee Kim (89') and Yuya Asano (92').

At the other end, Gamba Osaka had 6 shots at goal with 1 of them on target.

The referee was Masuya Ueda.

📋 Team News: Consadole Sapporo

Shun Takagi (Cruciate ligament injury) and Kazuki Fukai (Cruciate ligament surgery) will not be taking part for Consadole Sapporo manager Mihailo Petrović.

📰 Team News: Gamba Osaka

Gamba Osaka boss Daniel Poyatos has a number of players out of action. Keisuke Saka (Adductor injury), Takeru Kishimoto (Knee injury), Ibuki Konno (Hamstring injury), Yusei Egawa (Knee injury), Yuya Fukuda (Peroneus tendon injury), Riku Matsuda (Calf injury) and Jiro Nakamura (Knee surgery) are not ready for selection.

🔮 Prediction

We feel that Gamba Osaka and Consadole Sapporo could well end up finding themselves level here, with both teams capable of netting.

We’ll see, but this looks like it could end up all-square. We’re therefore seeing a hard-fought 1-1 draw at the end of the 90.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 04:05 06/04/2024