After 4 straight defeats in the league, Kashima tied 3 important victories. It is important above all for self-confidence, because it is still too early for any talk about the final ranking. True, they played against rivals who, realistically speaking, are much weaker than them, but that certainly does not diminish their success. Today they will have a much more difficult task, because they are meeting with a team of similar quality and similar form as them. Cerezo Osaka enters this match after winning the derby against Gamba Osaka, after a very uncertain game that was decided by a goal in the 90th minute. The scorer of the first goal in that match was Leo Ceara, who will certainly be the biggest threat to the rivals in this match as well. Before coming to Cerezo Osaka, he played quite successfully for Yokohama and already at the beginning of this season it can be seen that his quality makes a difference in the team. The current positions in the table, as well as the positions from the previous season, clearly indicate that the teams are of quite similar quality and that it is very difficult to say who will emerge as the winner after this match, if there will be one at all. In addition to the advantage of the home field, one more factor can greatly affect the final outcome of this match, and that is fatigue. This is Kashima's second consecutive away game in a short period of time, and the last match was played in distant Sapporo, and it will certainly have consequences for the team. Led by Leo Ceara, the team will be highly motivated to achieve a good result against a tired Kashima, against whom they have not had particularly good results lately. Both teams missed out on qualification for the Asian Champions League by a few points last season and certainly want to avoid that scenario again. I believe that an even match awaits us, but I give the home team a slight advantage in this match.

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在联赛中4连败之后，鹿岛追平了3场重要的胜利。最重要的是自信心，因为现在谈论最终排名还为时过早。没错，他们面对的对手实际上比他们弱得多，但这当然不会影响他们的成功。今天他们将面临更加艰巨的任务，因为他们面对的是一支与他们实力和状态相似的球队。大阪Cerezo队在与大阪钢巴队的德比中获胜后进入了本场比赛，这场比赛在90分钟时以一粒进球决定了胜负。那场比赛的第一个进球是利奥·塞阿拉，他当然也是这场比赛中对手最大的威胁。在来到大阪Cerezo之前，他在横滨踢得很成功，本赛季初就可以看出他的能力对球队的影响。目前在积分榜上的排名，以及上个赛季的排名，都清楚地表明两支球队的实力相当相似，很难说这场比赛后谁会成为赢家，如果有的话。除了主场优势之外，还有一个因素可以极大地影响这场比赛的最终结果，那就是疲劳。这是鹿岛在短时间内连续第二场客场比赛，而上一场比赛是在遥远的札幌进行的，这肯定会对球队产生影响。在Leo Ceara的带领下，这支队伍将会非常有动力去取得好成绩，面对疲惫的鹿岛，他们最近并没有取得特别好的成绩。上个赛季，两支球队都以一分之差错过了亚冠资格，当然，他们希望避免重蹈覆辙。我相信一场势均力敌的比赛在等着我们，但我认为主队在这场比赛中略胜一筹。