The Cerezo Osaka & Tokyo managers M. Lotina Oruecheberría and K. Hasegawa are both dreading and looking forward to this decisive game in the upper regions of the J-League league table.
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
Cerezo Osaka form and stats
The story so far in the J-League for Cerezo Osaka, who have the most clean sheets (3) at home in J-League, at their home stadium (Yanmar Stadium Nagai) is 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat.
A strong away win for Cerezo against Shonan Bellmare the last match, as H. Kiyotake were on target. A 1-1 draw away before that, with Sagan Tosu the opponent.
The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Cerezo have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found eight matches with the results: Won one, drawn three and lost four.
Cerezo Osaka aren't scoring a lot here at Yanmar Stadium Nagai in the league, with only 3 goals from 4 games. Cerezo have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 2 goals.
Tokyo form and stats
3 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses. That’s the product of Tokyo playing as the away team in the J-League this season. Tokyo has drawn their two previous away games.
This game can not go any worse than the last one, a J-League home defeat versus Sagan Tosu with 2-3 on the scoreboard. Before that, Tokyo travelled to Kashima Antlers and returned home with a draw after the game finished 2-2.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found seven similar matches played by Tokyo in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Tokyo, three draws and two defeats.
With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Tokyo are regular goalscorers on their travels. As opposed to that, Tokyo have seen the ball go into their own net 5 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Cerezo Osaka-Tokyo H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Cerezo five wins, Tokyo three wins, two draws. three of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  D. Queiroz de Oliveira 14 goals |  K. Nagai 9 goals |
Cerezo Osaka missing players
Tokyo missing players
| Cerezo Osaka | Tokyo | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 5 | 8 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | 3 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 10 | 14 |
| 5 | 2 | 2 | Conceded | C | 0 | 5 | 12 |
| 88% | 75% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 62% | 50% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 80% | 88% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 60% | 62% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 60% | 62% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 12% |
| 38% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 80% | 62% |
| 50% | 75% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 20% | 25% |
| 25% | 50% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 12% |
| 5.3 | 5.7 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 4.4 | 4.9 |
| 5.8 | 6.7 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2 | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| 0.8 | 0.7 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.8 | 1.7 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 62 | 31 | 9 | Total Shots | T S | 11 | 57 | 80 |
| 19 | 8 | 1 | Shots on Target | S O | 4 | 23 | 29 |
| 26% | 12% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 43% | 41% |
- Cerezo Osaka has the fewest conceded goals (2) at home
- Cerezo Osaka has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1)
- Cerezo Osaka has the most clean sheets (3) at home
- Tokyo has the most points from losing position (8)
- Tokyo have not yet lost a game away.
- Tokyo have scored at least twice as many goals away as Cerezo Osaka have scored home.
- Tokyo have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Tokyo haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 15 | 22 |
| 2 | Cerezo Osaka | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 17 |
| 3 | Gamba Osaka | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 16 |
| 4 | Kashiwa Reysol | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 19 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 15 |
| 5 | Nagoya Grampus | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 14 |
| 6 | Tokyo | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 14 |
| 7 | Urawa Reds | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | -1 | 14 |
| 8 | Consadole Sapporo | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 12 |
| 9 | Vissel Kobe | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | -1 | 12 |
| 10 | Sanfrecce Hiroshima | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| 11 | Yokohama F. Marinos | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -1 | 10 |
| 12 | Kashima Antlers | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 8 | -3 | 7 |
| 13 | Sagan Tosu | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -3 | 7 |
| 14 | Oita Trinita | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -7 | 7 |
| 15 | Vegalta Sendai | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | -6 | 6 |
| 16 | Shimizu S-Pulse | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -6 | 5 |
| 17 | Yokohama | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | -11 | 5 |
| 18 | Shonan Bellmare | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -6 | 4 |