Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Kashima Antlers & 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 busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Kashima and Kashiwa Reysol.
Kashima Antlers form and stats
Last season their J-League Cup adventure ended in the play-offs against Avispa Fukuoka.Kashima Antlers have collected 8 points from their J-League home games so far after 2-2-3.
Kashima Antlers drew their last game, also a home match. Tokyo was the opponent, 1-1 the score. Kakita, an attacker, was the declared top performer for the side in that fixture, receiving a rating of 7.42 (out of 10). Kakita scored one goal.
Ahead of that match, Kashima Antlers won a home game hosting Nagoya Grampus (2-0).The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Kashima matches with similar probabilities have ended with 5 wins, 0 draws and 0 defeats (from 5 games).
The manager Iwamasa will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Sagan Tosu in only three days.
Kashima Antlers has scored 10 league goals at home this season, in 7 matches. Kashima Antlers have conceded 10 in these home matches.
Kashiwa Reysol form and stats
Last season their J-League Cup adventure ended in the group stage.Kashiwa Reysol have only collected 5 points from their away games in the J-League, after 1-2-3 (6 played).
Kashiwa delivered a 1-1 draw playing at home against Vissel Kobe in their previous match. Sávio got a match rating of 7.65 in that game, top player of the team. Sávio hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times and had 31 successful passes (of 36 total).
Preceding that, the 0-1 home loss versus Yokohama.The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The J-League trip to Kawasaki Frontale.
There's been a serious shortage of goals from Kashiwa Reysol's away games in the league this season with only {3 goals} from 6 matches. It's not easy to score on Kashiwa as they have only conceded 5 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
Kashiwa Reysol - Kashima Antlers 1-1 was the score in these participants' latest head to head fixture, played this season. Head-to-head data (for the prior ten meetings): Kashima Antlers won six games, one match ended with a tie and Kashiwa Reysol got three wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: seven / three.
Top Goalscorers
  Y. Suzuki 7 goals | K. Chinen 4 goals |  M. Hosoya 4 goals |
Kashima Antlers missing players
Kashiwa Reysol missing players
| Kashima Antlers | Kashiwa Reysol | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 10 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 9 | 3 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Drew | D | 5 | 12 | ||
| 9 | 4 | Lost | L | 6 | 10 | ||
| 29 | 11 | Scored | S | 10 | 22 | ||
| 25 | 11 | Conceded | C | 18 | 36 | ||
| 92% | 80% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 83% | 88% | ||
| 60% | 60% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 58% | 68% | ||
| 32% | 40% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 42% | 40% | ||
| 16% | 20% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 20% | ||
| 8% | 10% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 12% | ||
| 44% | 40% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 56% | ||
| 40% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 17% | 16% | ||
| 24% | 30% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 40% | ||
| 5 | 4.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.4 | 4.6 | ||
| 4.5 | 4.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.8 | 5 | ||
| 1.2 | 0.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.6 | 1.6 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 11 | 11.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10 | 10.4 | ||
| 3.6 | 3.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 3.6 | ||
| 33% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 22% | 24% | ||
| 9.8 | 9.9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.6 | 11.3 | ||
| 2.8 | 2.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.8 | 4.4 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Avispa Fukuoka | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 2 | Albirex Niigata | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| 3 | Kashiwa Reysol | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | -1 | 5 |
| 4 | Kashima Antlers | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -1 | 4 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Vissel Kobe | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 29 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 20 | 30 |
| 2 | Yokohama F. Marinos | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 28 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 13 | 27 |
| 3 | Nagoya Grampus | 14 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 18 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 26 |
| 4 | Kashima Antlers | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 23 |
| 5 | Sanfrecce Hiroshima | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 23 |
| 6 | Cerezo Osaka | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 23 |
| 7 | Consadole Sapporo | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 31 | 25 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 13 | 6 | 22 |
| 8 | Urawa Reds | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 21 |
| 9 | Avispa Fukuoka | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -1 | 20 |
| 10 | Tokyo | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 19 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 12 | -2 | 19 |
| 11 | Kawasaki Frontale | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 12 | -1 | 18 |
| 12 | Sagan Tosu | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 7 | -3 | 18 |
| 13 | Albirex Niigata | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -5 | 16 |
| 14 | Kyoto Sanga | 14 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 16 | 22 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 11 | -6 | 13 |
| 15 | Kashiwa Reysol | 14 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 17 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | -8 | 12 |
| 16 | Yokohama | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 31 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 14 | -19 | 12 |
| 17 | Shonan Bellmare | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 21 | 24 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 10 | -3 | 11 |
| 18 | Gamba Osaka | 14 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 30 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 20 | -17 | 7 |
