Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Consadole Sapporo & Kashiwa Reysol face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the J-League Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
It's quite the trip for Kashiwa Reysol when visiting Consadole as the cities are 1000 kilometers apart.
Consadole Sapporo have less rest than Kashiwa Reysol in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a J-League Cup game only three days ago. Thankfully the previous game, versus Kyoto Sanga, was also a home game here at Sapporo Atsubetsu Park Stadium. The away team is better rested.
Consadole Sapporo form and stats
Last season their J-League Cup adventure ended in the quarter-finals against Tokyo.0-4-0 (win-draw-lost) are the J-League numbers at home for Consadole Sapporo so far this season.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Koki Otani not having conceded a league goal in 183 minutes.
Consadole's previous fixture was a J-League Cup game also played at their own arena, finishing 4-1 vs Kyoto Sanga. The home side hope to to repeat that performance.
In the match before that, Consadole Sapporo hosted Tokyo and drew the J-League game 0-0.The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Consadole Sapporo have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found ten games) they have won six times, drawn two and lost two.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Consadole Sapporo here at Sapporo Atsubetsu Park Stadium in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (3 from 4 games). From these home matches, Consadole have conceded only 3 goals.
Kashiwa Reysol form and stats
Kashiwa Reysol's mission in J-League Cup last season failed in the group stage.As the visiting team in J-League matches, Kashiwa Reysol have produced an overall stat of 2-1-2 so far.
Kashiwa aren't clicking offensively as they have gone 245 league minutes without a goal. Hosoya was the last player to find the net.
Kashiwa Reysol might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Kyoto Sanga proved too strong as Kashiwa Reysol slumped to a 0-2 defeat in front of their own fans at SANKYO FRONTIER Kashiwa Stadium. Koga was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.33. The defender Koga won 7 of 10 duels.
hometeam won Kashiwa Reysol are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is six wins, two draws and six defeats. From a total of 14 matches.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Kashiwa as they have only managed to score 4 times from 5 away games in the league. It's not easy to score on Kashiwa Reysol as they have only conceded 3 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
The fixture lists shows this result when the squads played each other previously this campaign; Kashiwa Reysol - Consadole Sapporo 2-3. Statistics for the last ten meetings featuring these two squads are: six wins for Consadole, zero draws and four wins for Kashiwa Reysol. Over 2,5 goals: nine times; under 2,5 goals: one game.Top Goalscorers
  M. Gonçalves Sávio 3 goals | M. Hosoya 3 goals |   T. Kaneko 2 goals |
Consadole Sapporo missing players
Kashiwa Reysol missing players
| Consadole Sapporo | Kashiwa Reysol | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 10 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 7 | 2 | Won | W | 6 | 10 | ||
| 11 | 6 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | ||
| 7 | 2 | Lost | L | 6 | 10 | ||
| 34 | 11 | Scored | S | 14 | 27 | ||
| 33 | 11 | Conceded | C | 17 | 31 | ||
| 88% | 80% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 76% | 80% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 57% | 64% | ||
| 44% | 30% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 29% | 32% | ||
| 36% | 20% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 21% | 24% | ||
| 20% | 10% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 7% | 12% | ||
| 56% | 60% | BTTS | BTTS | 43% | 44% | ||
| 24% | 20% | Clean Sheets | C S | 36% | 36% | ||
| 32% | 40% | Failed to Score | F T | 21% | 24% | ||
| 4.8 | 3.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.1 | 4.4 | ||
| 3.7 | 4.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.5 | 5 | ||
| 1 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 1 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 11.8 | 11.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.1 | 9.8 | ||
| 4.9 | 4.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.6 | 4 | ||
| 28% | 23% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 28% | 27% | ||
| 10.7 | 10.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9.4 | 9.1 | ||
| 4 | 3.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.9 | 3.8 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Consadole Sapporo | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 7 |
| 2 | Kyoto Sanga | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -1 | 7 |
| 3 | Kashiwa Reysol | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 4 | Sagan Tosu | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -3 | 2 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Kawasaki Frontale | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 20 |
| 2 | Kashima Antlers | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 19 |
| 3 | Yokohama F. Marinos | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 18 |
| 4 | Kashiwa Reysol | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 16 |
| 5 | Kyoto Sanga | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 15 |
| 6 | Tokyo | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 15 |
| 7 | Cerezo Osaka | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 13 |
| 8 | Sanfrecce Hiroshima | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 13 |
| 9 | Sagan Tosu | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
| 10 | Urawa Reds | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 10 |
| 11 | Gamba Osaka | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 3 | -1 | 10 |
| 12 | Nagoya Grampus | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -2 | 10 |
| 13 | Consadole Sapporo | 9 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 8 | -3 | 10 |
| 14 | Avispa Fukuoka | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | -2 | 8 |
| 15 | Júbilo Iwata | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | -3 | 8 |
| 16 | Shimizu S-Pulse | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -4 | 8 |
| 17 | Shonan Bellmare | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | -6 | 6 |
| 18 | Vissel Kobe | 10 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | -11 | 4 |
