Match Preview

Last year’s J-League runners-up take on the team who finished 10^th in our Kashima Antlers vs Gamba Osaka preview today. The home side stuttered to a draw in their first game of the new 2018 season last week at S-Pulse, while the visiting outfit suffered an embarrassing defeat to one of the newly promoted sides Nagoya Grampus.

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The hosts in this week’s preview are looking to kick-start their campaign with their first win of the season having drawn 0-0 in Shimizu prior to our Kashima Antlers vs Gamba Osaka betting tips. Go Oiwa’s men cruelly lost out on the title during a frenetic final day in December and they will be going all out to make sure they lift the trophy this year. However, Kashima Antlers will have to improve upon their home form of last season – they lost five of their seventeen games in the Ibaraki Prefecture.

Gamba Osaka were left reeling last week after being humiliated at home against the division new boys Nagoya Grampus. The defeat was bad enough, but conceding three times really rubbed salt into their wounds. It was a less than ideal start for new Head Coach Levir Culpi. The Brazilian is expected to have a big impact at GAM, though it may take some time for his influence to show. The club from Suita lost just five times on the road in total last year.

Kashima Antlers vs Gamba Osaka Prediction and Betting Advice

We are tipping the home side to come out on top in the first of today’s Kashima Antlers vs Gamba Osaka bets, and we have several reasons for doing so. First off, the visiting team have been in truly miserable shape for a large period of time now. GAM haven’t won any of their most recent fourteen matches.

Incredibly, we have to go all the way back to September of last year to find their last victory in any competition. Levir Culpi’s first job as new coach at Gamba is to pick his player’s confidence up off the floor – their 2-3 loss last week to Grampus is sure to have set them back even further, however.

The hosts have won against GAM in four of their last five meetings with them. They did the league double of them in the 2017 J-League season and they are huge favourites to extend their unbeaten run in all competitions to nine matches this weekend. We chose Sunbets to provide the J-League football odds for today. In terms of value and variety, their prices are head and shoulders above the competition.

Next up in today’s Japanese football forecast and Kashima Antlers vs Gamba Osaka predictions, we’re advising you to back the home team to score over 1.5 goals on Saturday. Go Oiwa is a smart coach and he will have identified that his opponent this weekend is desperately low on self-belief.

Oiwa will ensure that his players go for the kill from the first whistle in an attempt to blow the weaker opposition away. In two of these teams’ last three meetings in the Ibaraki Prefecture, the home side scored over 1.5 goals. Antlers are formidable on their own patch in front of goal, they have netted over 1.5 times in twelve of their last sixteen games there.

Go Oiwa’s troops haven’t been beaten in front of their own fans since May of last year. They have kept twelve clean sheets from those sixteen unbeaten matches in the process. The statistics tell us that they are regularly dominant at their own stadium and the probability of them scoring two goals against a fragile Osaka side is extremely high. At Betfair, you can find the most lucrative prices for our second selection. It’s worth checking out what they have to offer.