Gamba Osaka vs Consadole Sapporo Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Gamba Osaka

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Gamba Osaka will be hoping for a better result following the 1-2 J1 League defeat in their last game at the hands of Sanfrecce Hiroshima.

In that game, Gamba Osaka had 56% possession and 10 shots at goal with 2 on target. The scorer for Gamba Osaka was Takashi Usami (70'). Sanfrecce Hiroshima got 15 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Nassim Ben Khalifa (2') and Makoto Mitsuta (94') scored for Sanfrecce Hiroshima.

It has been seldom in recent times where Gamba Osaka have kept a clean sheet. The facts show that Gamba Osaka have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 games, letting in 10 goals during that time. Such a trend isn’t assured to follow through into this next game, though.

Looking at their past form shows that Gamba Osaka:

• have not won against Consadole Sapporo in their previous 3 league matches.
• haven’t won at home in the past 2 league games.

Consadole Sapporo

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Consadole Sapporo will go into the meeting following on from a 2-0 J1 League win to defeat Yokohama F. Marinos in their previous game.

In that match, Consadole Sapporo managed 36% possession and 17 attempts on goal with 6 on target. For Consadole Sapporo, the scorers were Tsuyoshi Ogashiwa (8') and Yuki Kobayashi (77'). For their opponents, Yokohama F. Marinos had 9 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target.

Throughout their 6 latest matches, Mihailo Petrović's Consadole Sapporo have slotted home a total of 9 times - earning them a goals scored per game average of 1.5.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Consadole Sapporo:

• remain unbeaten by Gamba Osaka in games played away from home for the previous 2 matches in the league.
• are undefeated in their previous 6 away league matches.
• are without an away win for the past 2 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their prior head to head clashes stretching back to 19/09/2020 tells us that Gamba Osaka have won 3 of these games and Consadole Sapporo 2, with the number of drawn results being 1.

In all, 13 goals were produced between them in these games, with 6 for Gamba Osaka and 7 being from Consa. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.17.

The last league match featuring these sides was J1 League match day 18 on 26/06/2022 which finished with the scoreline of Consadole Sapporo 1-0 Gamba Osaka.

That time, Consadole Sapporo had 52% possession and 19 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. Their only player to score was Yoshiaki Komai (51').

For their opponents, Gamba Osaka had 5 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Masuya Ueda.

📰 Team News: Gamba Osaka

The Gamba Osaka boss Daniel Poyatos will be thankful to have no fitness concerns to speak of ahead of this match owing to a completely healthy squad ready to go.

📋 Team News: Consadole Sapporo

Consadole Sapporo boss Mihailo Petrović has not got a full squad to pick from. Kazuki Fukai (Cruciate Ligament Rupture) and Yoshiaki Komai (Cruciate Ligament Injury) can’t be considered.

💭 Prediction

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

There should be little in it, and a draw looks to be quite a realistic result. We therefore see a very even match with a score draw at the end of the 90.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 02:34 14/03/2023