OSAKA. Kyoto Sanga had an adventurous win over Cerezo Osaka. The hero of the match was R. Elias who scored in the 12th, 56th and 65th minute. Cerezo Osaka was decisively better in terms of ball possession (73%).​

The match was played at the Yanmar Stadium Nagai stadium in Osaka on Saturday and it started at 7:00 pm local time. The referee was Masuya Ueda with the support of Makoto Hibino and Masaru Hasegawa. The 4th official was Satoshi Michiyama. The weather was scattered clouds. The temperature was extremely hot at 32.76 degrees Celsius or 90.97 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 75%.​

Match Statistics​

Ball possession

Cerezo Osaka had a strong ball possession 73% while Kyoto Sanga was struggling with a 27% ball possession.

Attitude and shots

Cerezo Osaka was more pushing with 63 dangerous attacks and 19 shots of which 6 were on target. Nonetheless, Kyoto Sanga succeeded in find the solution to win this match.​

Cerezo Osaka shot 19 times, 6 on target, 5 off target. Regarding the opposition, Kyoto Sanga shot 23 times, 9 on target, 9 off target.

Cards

Cerezo Osaka didn’t receive any yellow card. On the opposite side, Kyoto Sanga received 1 yellow card (Daiki Kaneko).

Standings

After this contest, Cerezo Osaka stays with 38 points like Yokohama F. Marinos and FC Tokyo to sit in the 7th place. On the other side, Kyoto Sanga will has 31 points to remain in the 16th place.

Next matches

In the next match in the J-League, Cerezo Osaka will play away against Yokohama F. Marinos on the 24th of August with a 14-7 head to head record in favor of Cerezo Osaka (10 draws).

Kyoto Sanga will host FC Tokyo on the 24th of August with a 5-2 head to head record in favor of FC Tokyo (3 draws).

Cerezo Osaka – Formation

Cerezo Osaka started with a 4-2-3-1 line-up (4-2-3-1).

The manager Akio Kogiku decided to play with the following team: Jin-hyeon Kim (6.4), Hayato Okuda (6.8), Koji Toriumi (6.5), Kakeru Funaki (5.5), Kyohei Noborizato (6.3), Shunta Tanaka (7.1), Hiroaki Okuno (7.1), Lucas Fernandes (7.1), Vitor Bueno (8.2), Hirotaka Tameda (6.9) and Léo Ceará (7.6).

The home team had on the bench: Han-been Yang, Yuichi Hirano (7.0), Satoki Uejo, Ryogo Yamasaki (6.6), Ryuya Nishio (7.1), Sota Kitano (8.0) and Masaya Shibayama (6.7).

Substitutions

Cerezo Osaka made 5 changes: Shunta Tanaka for Yuichi Hirano (73′), Hirotaka Tameda for Sota Kitano (73′), Kyohei Noborizato for Ryuya Nishio (61′), Hiroaki Okuno for Masaya Shibayama (61′) and Lucas Fernandes for Sora Hiraga (80′).

Player of the match: Vitor Bueno​

As per our analysis, the most impressive player for Cerezo Osaka was Vitor Bueno.

His rating is 8.2 with 1 goal, 61 passes (75% accurate) and 3 key passes. He won 12 duels out of 15. He performed 2 crosses.

Kyoto Sanga – Formation

Kyoto Sanga started with a aggressive line-up (4-3-3).

Kwi-Jea Cho played with: Sung-yun Gu (6.5), Shinnosuke Fukuda (8.6), Yuta Miyamoto (6.7), Yoshinori Suzuki (6.7), Yuto Misao (7.0), Takuji Yonemoto (7.0), Shimpei Fukuoka (6.8), Taiki Hirato (6.7), Marco Túlio (8.9), Rafael Elias (10.0) and Taichi Hara (8.1).

These were the players on the bench: Sota Kawasaki (6.8), Daiki Kaneko (7.0), Gakuji Ota, Sora Hiraga (6.5), Kyo Sato (5.9), Murilo de Souza (6.6) and Lucas Oliveira.

Substitutions

Kyoto Sanga made 5 changes: Taiki Hirato for Murilo de Souza (86′), Shimpei Fukuoka for Daiki Kaneko (46′), Takuji Yonemoto for Sota Kawasaki (69′), Shinnosuke Fukuda for Kyo Sato (69′) and Rafael Elias for Ryogo Yamasaki (80′).

Player of the match: Marco Túlio​

Following our analysis, the most impressive player for Kyoto Sanga was Marco Túlio even if he didn’t score any goal.

His rating is 8.9 with 19 passes (84% accurate) and 4 key passes. He won 2 duels out of 6. He performed 3 crosses.

Results of the day

These are the results of the day in the J-League.​

• Kashima Antlers – Urawa Reds – 0-0
• Machida Zelvia – Júbilo Iwata – 4-0
• FC Tokyo – Tokyo Verdy – 0-0
• Kawasaki Frontale – Yokohama F. Marinos – 1-3
• Shonan Bellmare – Kashiwa Reysol – 1-2
• Nagoya Grampus – Sanfrecce Hiroshima – 1-2
• Cerezo Osaka – Kyoto Sanga – 3-5
• Vissel Kobe – Gamba Osaka – 2-2
• Avispa Fukuoka – Albirex Niigata – 0-1