J-League duel: Close contest expected between Consadole Sapporo and Kashima Antlers

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Competition: Japan J-League
Competition: Wed 03.May
Match begins: 05:00 (UTC)
Venue: Sapporo Dome (38415 seats)

Consadole Sapporo are prepared for a new challenge after their 4-1 against Yokohama in the previous match. Kashima Antlers are coming to town!

Insights:
  • Consadole Sapporo have the most scored goals in the first half (12) in J-League
  • Kashima Antlers haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

These teams have little in common geographically as Kashima Antlers have to travel 1000 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Consadole Sapporo form and stats

The story so far in the J-League for Consadole Sapporo at their home stadium (Sapporo Dome) is 1 win, 1 draw and 2 defeats.

Consadole enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Yokohama's place. The match ended 4-1 with Ogashiwa, Tanaka and Asano (2) scoring. Asano, an attacker, was the best performer for the team in that fixture, collecting a rating of 8.15 (out of 10). Asano scored two goals.

The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 2-2 versus Avispa Fukuoka.

This is expected to be a close game, with Consadole Sapporo perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Consadole Sapporo as a small favourite), we find 15 games. Consadole Sapporo has won 2 of these, drawn 4 and lost 9.

Some goal stats: A review of the 10 most recent league matches shows that 8 of them had goals from both teams.

Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Tokyo are coming to town in three days.

Consadole Sapporo have conceded 9 goals in these home games, a significant number.

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Kashima Antlers form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their J-League travels is 3 wins, 0 draws and 2 defeats.

Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Kashima goalkeeper Tomoki Hayakawa is eager to challenge this, with his 185 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.

Kashima Antlers are travelling after their nice 4-0 home win in the match against Gamba Osaka (placed 17th). As mentioned above, Kashima was the only team on the pitch versus Gamba Osaka in their previous game, winning 4-0. This could be a tougher task. Higuchi got a match rating of 8.12 in that game, top player of the team. Higuchi served one assist, hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 31 successful passes (of 34 total).

Preceding that game was the away victory against Albirex Niigata with the score of 2-0.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 4 similar matches played by Kashima Antlers in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Kashima Antlers, 0 draws and 2 defeats.

Kashima Antlers have another game that requires travelling in just four days, a J-League game versus Cerezo Osaka. A grim diary for the visiting team!

Kashima Antlers are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 8 times in 5 away games so far. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (4 so far).

Head 2 Head

Kashima Antlers have not lost in the last 6 fixtures (3-3-0) against Consadole.

Top Goalscorers

Consadole SapporoY. Asano
Y. Asano
5 goals
Kashima AntlersY. Suzuki
Y. Suzuki
5 goals
Consadole SapporoT. Kaneko
T. Kaneko
3 goals

Consadole Sapporo missing players

Kashima Antlers missing players

Consadole Sapporo Kashima Antlers
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
10 4 2 Played P 1 5 10
3 1 0 Won W 1 3 4
4 1 1 Drew D 0 0 1
3 2 1 Lost L 0 2 5
20 8 5 Scored S 2 8 15
20 9 6 Conceded C 0 4 13
90% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 90%
90% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 80% 80%
80% 75% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 40% 60%
80% 75% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 30%
40% 25% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 10%
80% 75% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 40% 50%
20% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 40% 40%
10% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 20% 20%
 
4.9 5 5.5 Corners for (avg) C F 4 4.2 4.2
4.4 3 3 Corners against (avg) C A 3 4.2 3.9
1.5 1 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.8 1.2
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 3
 
13.6 16.2 17.5 Shots (avg) S ( 11 12 11.1
4.2 5 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.2 3.3
48% 40% 62% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 50% 45%
 
12.7 12.2 10.5 Shots against (avg) S A 6 7.8 9.4
4.8 4.8 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 2 2.7
Key stats in J-League this season:
  • All of Consadole Sapporo's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Consadole Sapporo have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Consadole Sapporo have the fewest matches under the total-line (2) in J-League
  • Consadole Sapporo have the most matches over the total-line (8) in J-League
  • Consadole Sapporo have the most scored goals in the first half (12) in J-League
  • Consadole Sapporo haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Kashima Antlers haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  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 10 7 1 2 21 6 6 3 1 2 9 4 4 4 0 0 12 2 15 22
2 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 10 6 2 2 13 7 5 2 1 2 4 4 5 4 1 0 9 3 6 20
3 Nagoya Grampus 10 5 4 1 13 6 4 1 3 0 3 2 6 4 1 1 10 4 7 19
4 Yokohama F. Marinos 10 5 3 2 18 11 5 3 2 0 11 3 5 2 1 2 7 8 7 18
5 Urawa Reds 9 5 2 2 13 8 3 3 0 0 8 3 6 2 2 2 5 5 5 17
6 Tokyo 10 4 3 3 13 11 5 3 1 1 10 6 5 1 2 2 3 5 2 15
7 Avispa Fukuoka 10 4 3 3 13 13 5 4 0 1 8 6 5 0 3 2 5 7 0 15
8 Cerezo Osaka 10 4 2 4 13 13 6 3 1 2 9 8 4 1 1 2 4 5 0 14
9 Kashima Antlers 10 4 1 5 15 13 5 1 1 3 7 9 5 3 0 2 8 4 2 13
10 Consadole Sapporo 10 3 4 3 20 20 4 1 1 2 8 9 6 2 3 1 12 11 0 13
11 Kyoto Sanga 10 4 1 5 14 14 5 2 0 3 6 9 5 2 1 2 8 5 0 13
12 Kawasaki Frontale 10 3 3 4 13 14 5 0 3 2 4 6 5 3 0 2 9 8 -1 12
13 Albirex Niigata 10 3 3 4 13 16 5 2 1 2 7 9 5 1 2 2 6 7 -3 12
14 Shonan Bellmare 10 2 5 3 18 16 4 1 2 1 7 6 6 1 3 2 11 10 2 11
15 Sagan Tosu 9 3 2 4 9 13 5 2 1 2 4 7 4 1 1 2 5 6 -4 11
16 Kashiwa Reysol 10 1 4 5 6 14 6 1 3 2 5 10 4 0 1 3 1 4 -8 7
17 Gamba Osaka 10 1 4 5 11 22 5 1 3 1 7 6 5 0 1 4 4 16 -11 7
18 Yokohama 10 0 3 7 8 27 6 0 1 5 4 16 4 0 2 2 4 11 -19 3