📊 Form Guide

Kyoto Sanga

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Kyoto Sanga, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after a 0-3 J1 League success over Yokohama F. Marinos.

In that game, Kyoto Sanga had 41% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 5 on target. For Kyoto Sanga, goals were scored by Temma Matsuda (31') and Masaya Okugawa (67'). Yokohama F. Marinos had 11 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. Élber (80' Own goal) scored for Yokohama F. Marinos.

It’s been seldom in recent times where Kyoto Sanga haven’t conceded. It will be a concern for them that Kyoto Sanga have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, leaking 8 goals in the process.

Cerezo Osaka

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After a losing effort in their last game against Kawasaki Frontale in J1 League competition, Cerezo Osaka will be aiming to make amends here.

In that match, Cerezo Osaka managed 53% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 0 of them on target. Kawasaki Frontale got 16 shots on goal with 6 on target. Erison (85', 88') was the scorer for Kawasaki Frontale.

The stats don’t lie, and Cerezo Osaka have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, conceding 7 goals in total. In defence, Cerezo Osaka have not been doing too well. We will just have to find out whether or not that trend will be continued on here.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their past head-to-head clashes stretching back to 19/04/2023 tells us that Kyoto Sanga have won 3 of these games and Cerezo Osaka 2, with the tally of drawn results being 1.

In all, 19 goals were produced between them in these games, with 11 from Kyoto and 8 created by Sakura. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.17.

The last league fixture between these clubs was J1 League match day 14 on 03/05/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Kyoto Sanga 2-3 Cerezo Osaka.

That day, Kyoto Sanga had 52% possession and 22 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. The goalscorers were Taichi Hara (12') and Temma Matsuda (14').

Cerezo Osaka had 10 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. Lucas Fernandes (18'), Kengo Furuyama (43') and Motohiko Nakajima (65') scored.

The referee was Futoshi Nakamura.

📋 Team News: Kyoto Sanga

Availability isn’t a big problem, with just a single fitness concern for the Kyoto Sanga gaffer Kwi-jae Cho to be concerned about from a near full-strength squad. Sung-yun Gu (Meniscus injury) misses out.

📰 Team News: Cerezo Osaka

From a largely available squad, there’s only the sole fitness problem for the Cerezo Osaka gaffer Arthur Papas to be concerned with. Yuichi Hirano (Meniscus injury) won’t be in action.

💡 Prediction

Our thinking is that Cerezo Osaka and Kyoto Sanga could both well score here although it’s hard to see a clear-cut winner.

Little in this one, and it’s almost too close to call. We’re therefore tipping a hard-fought 1-1 score draw at full-time.

Victor Martins, 09:03 21/05/2025