The Kashima Antlers Sentinel
Match12 Oct 2026
Kashima Antlers are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 20 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Ryuta Koike keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Kashima Antlers may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market12 Oct 2026
Yuma Suzuki wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Aleksandar Cavric
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Real improvement from Homare Tokuda at Kashima Antlers
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Homare Tokuda is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match10 Oct 2026
Still nobody has beaten Kashima Antlers
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Aleksandar Cavric in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kashima Antlers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Leo Ceara
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Leo Ceara, and the manager let it.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Ikuma Sekigawa stands above it all
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.66 on the card, and the Kashima Antlers support went home talking about one name.
In brief
- Match Kashima Antlers draw a blank against Sagan Tosu
- Player ratings Off the pace: Jael