Late Drama Sees Consadole Sapporo Fall to Cerezo Osaka in Desperate Bid to Avoid Relegation

The J.League football battle on Sunday, November 3 at the Daiwa House Premist Dome is a meeting between Consadole Sapporo at home and against Cerezo Osaka.

The home team Sapporo has one goal: a win to fight against relegation, while Cerezo Osaka is safe and sound.

Opening just 10 minutes, Sapporo took a 1-0 lead from a shot by Ryota Aoki, who showed better steps, faked one stroke and shot in.

In the 36th minute, Cerezo started to attack. And at the end of the first half, the home team was leading 1-0.

At the end of the game, in the 85th minute, Taiki Hirato’s first shot was saved by Takanori Sukeno, but the Sapporo goalkeeper caused a break and the ball fell in front of Ryoko Yamazaki, who repeated and led the visiting team to a 1-1 draw. And at the end of 90 minutes the points were shared.

As for Sapporo’s situation, it is still struggling hard. When the score in favor of the safe place reaches 6 points and less than 1 game is played.

List of players for both teams

Consadole Sapporo: Takanori Sugeno, Ryu Takao, Daihashi Okamura, Park Min Gyu, Tomoki Kondo, Leo Ozaki, Seiya Suga, Yoshiaki Ko Mai, Ryota Aoki, Musashi Suzuki

reserve: Jun Kodama, Toya Nakamura, Hiroki Miyazawa, Yuya Asano, Takuma Arano, Kim Geun-hee, Haruto Shirai

Cerezo Osaka: Kim Jin Hyun, Ryosuke Shindo, Shunta Tanaka, Ryuya Nishio, Hinata Kida, Reya Sakata, Hirotaka Tameda, Hiroaki Okuno, Leo Sierra, Sota Kitano, Lucas Fernandes

reserve: Yang Han Bean, Hayato Okuda, Koji Toriumi, Satoki Uejo, Masaya Shibayama, Kapisaba, Ryoko Yamazaki.