📏 Form Guide

Shimizu S-Pulse

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Shimizu S-Pulse, buoyed by their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 1-2 J1 100 Year Vision League triumph versus Kyoto Sanga.

In that match, Shimizu S-Pulse had 55% possession and 18 shots on goal with 5 on target. Kyoto Sanga got 16 shots on goal with 5 on target. Túlio (16') was the scorer for Kyoto Sanga.

It’s been seldom in recent games where Shimizu S-Pulse haven’t conceded. In fact, Shimizu S-Pulse have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 matches, leaking 8 goals during that time. We will just have to find out whether or not that trend can be continued on in this game.

Cerezo Osaka

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In their last game, Cerezo Osaka drew 1-1 in the J1 100 Year Vision League match with Avispa Fukuoka.

In that match, Cerezo Osaka had 70% possession and 7 shots on goal with 1 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Cerezo Osaka was Rikito Inoue (45'). Avispa Fukuoka had 8 shots at goal with 4 on target. After a tense 4-3 penalty shootout, Cerezo Osaka were victorious.

Throughout their six previous matches, Arthur Papas's Cerezo Osaka have seen their efforts on goal rewarded a total of 6 times - giving them the goals scored per game average of 1.

👥 Head to head

Looking at their past head-to-head meetings going back to 04/12/2021 shows that Shimizu S-Pulse have won 1 of them & Cerezo Osaka 3, with the number of drawn games standing at 2.

A combined total of 20 goals were scored between them in this period, with 7 of them for Shimizu and 13 belonging to Sakura. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.33.

The last league meeting between these sides was J1 100 Year Vision League match day 5 on 07/03/2026 when it ended Cerezo Osaka 0-0 Shimizu S-Pulse.

In that game, Cerezo Osaka had 59% possession and 19 shots at goal with 8 of them on target.

Shimizu S-Pulse got 11 attempts on goal with 0 of them on target.

📰 Team News: Shimizu S-Pulse

We are thinking that Shimizu S-Pulse should go for a 4-1-2-3 formation, handing starts to Togo Umeda, Kengo Kitazume, Jelani Sumiyoshi, Mateus Brunetti, Yutaka Yoshida, Matheus Bueno, Zento Uno, Yudai Shimamoto, Toshiki Takahashi, Se-Hun Oh and Hikaru Nakahara.

ℹ️ Team News: Cerezo Osaka

We reckon that Sakura might make use of a 4-2-3-1 lineup, starting Jin-Hyeon Kim, Dion Cools, Rikito Inoue, Shinnosuke Hatanaka, Ayumu Ohata, Nelson Ishiwatari, Shunta Tanaka, Masaya Shibayama, Shinji Kagawa, Yumeki Yokoyama and Solomon Sakuragawa.

🧠 Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Cerezo Osaka and Shimizu S-Pulse might both not be able to do quite enough to get on the scoresheet here.

It will be interesting to see how this one goes, and it’s not easy to pick a clear winner. We therefore see a very close game with a 0-0 draw at the end of this game.

Victor Martins, 03:03 06/05/2026