13:30 Vegalta Sendai v. Consadole Sapporo at Yurtec Stadium

Vegalta Sendai – MF Sekiguchi out with ligament damage, may be back before end of June. DF Uemoto out until end of July, knee injury.

Consadole Sapporo – MF Takagi had knee surgery but is back in training, DF Nara expected to be unavailable this week through injury, MF Yokono is out with knee ligament damage, FW Maeda out until at least August.

Consadole have seven wins to Vegalta’s five victories, with seven draws since 2004, but this is 2012, top against bottom. What should we expect!?

Vegalta Sendai (P13 W8 D3 L2 GD +15) have only won one of their last five so probably welcomed the break to resettle the team and, with this restart against a team who have shipped 28 goals, they will welcome the chance to consolidate their position at the top of J1.

Consadole Sapporo (P13 W1 D1 L11 GD -19) will be just looking to stem the flow of goals against J1’s top team but are suffering from a long injury list and, certainly from a lack of confidence after scoring only nine goals in 13 matches. However hard I try I can only see a WIN for VEGALTA SENDAI here!