Kashima Antlers are fighting for the title this season and I do believe that this season it can really happen. They are in the 2nd position, only 1 point behind Yokohama Marinos. If wasn't their last run for the league they were in the 1st place, they are in a run of 3 games without winning after 2 draws and 1 defeat. The must win for Kashima increased after this sequence and as in case of a win they can go jump to the top of the table. Kashima have already won 6 games against Kyoto, while Kyoto only won for 2 times and they drew 1 game. Kashima have one player in doubt for this game, Yuma Suzuki after being subbed off in the last game due to an injury. No suspended players here. They will go with everything to try to jump to the 1st place. They have 3 talented brazilian players that can make the difference in any minute, Caike, Alano and Everaldo - both are top players for J1 League in my opinion. They have too a left/right-back with a lot of potential that played in Portugal in the last season, Koki Anzai a very fast player that can make a lot of positions without losing quality.

Probable line-up: Tae Kwon; Koki Anzai - Kento Misao - Ikuma Sekigawa - Tsunemoto; Arthur Caike - Ryuji Izumi - Yuta Higuchi - Alano Juan; Everaldo and Ayase Ueda.

Kyoto Sanga are in the middle of the table and if they end on this position, 9th currently, it can be a really good season for them, and it takes the pressure of them. They ended recently a six-game winless run in the league with a victory against Kawasaki. They were eliminated from the J league cup by Kawasaki Frontale with the incredible aggregate of 7-1. I think they are mentally affected after those 2 last defeats against Nagoya and cannot expect a reaction so fast on a competition where they are stable so far and doing what were proposed to do. They have some important absences, Naoto Misawa and Quenten Martinus both due to injuries. Kyoto only won 3 games on their last 13 games and I don't expect them to achieve the 4th win here, I totally trust on Kashima here.

Probable line-up: Kamifukumoto; Kosuke Shirai - Hisashi Appiah - Shogo Asada - Takuya Ogiwara; Shimpei Fukuoka - Daiki Kaneko - Shohei Takeda; Fuki Yamada - Temma Matsuda and Peter Utaka.

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鹿岛鹿角在这个赛季为冠军而战，我相信这个赛季真的会发生。他们目前排名第二，只比横滨马里诺斯落后1分。如果不是他们在联赛中的最后一场比赛，他们现在已经连续3场比赛2平1负没有赢球。必须为鹿岛赢得增加了这一序列，并作为一场胜利的情况下，他们可以跳到表的顶部。鹿岛队已经赢了京都队6场比赛，而京都队只赢了2场，他们战平了1场。本场比赛鹿岛有一名球员不确定能否上场，他就是上一场比赛因伤缺阵的铃木佑马。这里没有被停赛的球员。他们会不惜一切代价想要跳到第一名。他们有3名天赋异禀的巴西球员，凯克、阿拉诺和埃弗拉尔多，在我看来他们都是J1联赛的顶级球员。他们也有一个上个赛季在葡萄牙踢过的很有潜力的左/右后卫，科基安宰是一个速度非常快的球员，可以在不失去质量的情况下胜任很多位置。

京都尚加目前处于积分榜的中间位置，如果他们以目前的第9名结束比赛，这对他们来说将是一个非常好的赛季，这将承受他们的压力。他们最近结束了对川崎的六连胜。他们在J联赛杯被川崎前锋以令人难以置信的7-1的总比分淘汰。我认为他们在最后两次输给名古屋之后受到了精神上的影响，他们无法期待在一场比赛中做出如此快速的反应，因为他们到目前为止都很稳定，并在做他们应该做的事情。他们有一些重要的球员缺席，三泽直人和马丁努斯都因伤缺席。京都在过去的13场比赛中只赢了3场，我不希望他们在这里取得第4场胜利，我完全信任鹿岛。