Kashiwa Reysol
- Kashiwa Reysol should edge out Kyoto Purple Sanga in the second leg of their 2026 J1 100 Year Vision placement playoff this Saturday, although their counterparts’ strikeforce could make a shootout of it.
- Kashiwa have won 4 and lost just 1 of their last 5 while Kyoto have lost 4 and won 1 of their previous 5, conceding 15 goals in the process.
- The bookmakers clearly have Kashiwa as their choice for this game, even if not by a huge margin, and the odds of 1.94 look about right considering the hosts are the form team.
Kyoto Purple Sanga
Kyoto Purple Sanga have lost 4 of their last 5 games, conceding 15 goals and only beating V-Varen Nagasaki.
Head-to-Head
- Kashiwa Reysol have won 8 of their 19 head-to-heads with Kyoto since 2008 (D8, L3).
- One of these encounters was an astonishing 13-1 Kashiwa victory in 2019, but their most recent meeting on 30 May 2026 also finished in a lopsided 6-2 away win to Kashiwa in the first leg of these placement playoffs.
Betting Insights
- Both clubs will be keen to finish their special season in style, which is why the match result markets are all heavily tilted in favour of the home team, so our main selection has to be ‘Both teams to score - Yes’ at 1.77.
- Kashiwa Reysol have scored 36 goals in this fixture to Kyoto’s 19, but we also take into account that Kashiwa have averaged over 3 goals per game across their last 3 matches, while Kyoto have conceded 13 in their last 3.
- Kashiwa Reysol are 1.94 favorites for this fixture, compared to 3.71 outsider status for Kyoto.
Key Players
- Kyoto’s main threat is Rafael Elias, the club’s top scorer this term with 6 goals.
- He’s always dangerous on the break and in combination with Marco Túlio Oliveira Lemos, who has 5 goals, the pair make a potent duo.
- Fuchi Honda is the main playmaker and assists creator for Kyoto, while Kashiwa have an array of scoring options in Mao Hosoya, Yota Komi and Yuki Kakita.
- Mao Hosoya
- Yota Komi
- Yuki Kakita
- Yusuke Segawa is the team’s top goal scorer in 2026 and spearheads their transition play, which makes him the most dangerous player on the field when the ball moves into the final third.
Prediction
Both sides will be desperate to finish the campaign well as their final positions are still to be decided in this special, but the form book suggests Kashiwa are the more likely to claim victory in this clash.
