Sapporo vs. Cerezo Osaka: Japan Championship Match Prediction
Sapporo and Cerezo Osaka will play in the 35th round of the Japanese championship. The hosts are in the penultimate place in the standings and are unlikely to escape relegation. The visitors are in eighth place and are finishing the season without any goals. Which of the opponents will be able to score points on November 3? Should we expect an unexpected outcome? The answer is in our forecast for this match.
Match announcement
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo
JapanCurrent form
Sapporo is having a disastrous season and will probably spend the next season in the second division. The team has only 32 points in 34 matches and is in the penultimate place in the standings. The hosts are seven points away from the safe zone, and it will be extremely difficult to make up for such a gap in the remaining four rounds. In the last three matches, they managed to win over Kyoto (2:0) and Nagoya (2:0), and only at the end did they miss out on a victory over Gamba Osaka (1:2), conceding two goals in injury time. The team has looked good in recent matches, but they should have joined the fight for survival much earlier.
Disqualifications and injuries
Kim Gun-Hee, Shun Takagi and Hiroki Miyazawa will miss the upcoming match due to injuries. The participation of Yui Asano, Tatsuya Hasegawa, Supachok Sarachat and Katsuyuki Tanaka is in question.
Interesting trends for betting
- At home, the team has won four of its last five matches.
- The club has lost just one of its last eight home matches
Tentative lineup : Sugeno - Takao, Okamura, Park - Osaki - Kondo, Komai, Aoki, Suga - Shirai, Suzuki
Cerezo Osaka
JapanCurrent form
Cerezo Osaka is in eighth place in the J. League standings. The team could have been closer to the group of leaders, but in the summer they had to endure a series of eight matches without victories in the championship. After such results, the club ended up in the middle of the table. Recently, the situation has leveled out - they managed to win three of the last five matches. The visitors beat Shonan (2:1), Gamba Osaka (1:0) and Urawa (1:0), and also played a draw with Kashiwa (0:0). In the last round, the club from Osaka still lost to another contender for relegation, Iwate (1:2).
Disqualifications and injuries
Kakeru Funaki may miss the fight due to injury.
Interesting trends for betting
- The team has suffered only one defeat in its last five matches.
- In the last five away matches the club has won two and suffered three defeats
Estimated lineup : Jin-Hyun Kim - Nishio, Tanaka, Shindo - Tameda, Okuno, Kida, Sakata - Fernandez, Kitano - Leo Ceara
Trends
Bet Exact score 2:0
The hosts have won their last two games by this score.
12.00Bet At least one team will not score
This bet has played in four of the hosts' last five matches
2.20Bet Number 2 in the final score
This pattern has worked in four of the last six matches between the teams.
2.13Tip and bets
The hosts are unlikely to be able to keep their place in the J-1 League, but the team clearly wants to at least slam the door loudly for the last time. The club from Sapporo has been performing well in recent matches, especially on its home field. We believe that the outsider will be able to beat the unmotivated Cerezo Osaka, so we suggest betting on the home team with a zero handicap.
Our prediction is Asian handicap (0) on Sapporo for 1.75
Bet on total
Face-to-face meetings between these teams are often productive. There will probably be no shortage of goals scored now, because nothing really depends on the outcome of the match, so there is no point in sitting back in defense. We suggest betting on a high total.
Our prediction is total over 2.5 goals with odds of 1.80
Bet on corners
We believe that the teams will play this match on opposite courses, which should allow the opponents to make quite a few passes from the corner flag for both of them. We think that it is worth betting on the total over for this indicator as well.
Our prediction is total over 9.5 corners with odds of 1.80
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