📏 Form Guide

Nagoya Grampus

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Nagoya Grampus, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after a 1-2 J1 League victory over Consadole Sapporo.

In that match, Nagoya Grampus managed 39% possession and 6 attempts at goal with 4 on target. For Nagoya Grampus, goals were scored by Tsukasa Morishima (55') and Kensuke Nagai (90'). Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo got 13 attempts at goal with 2 on target. Seiya Baba (30') scored for Consadole Sapporo.

It has been seldom in recent times that Nagoya Grampus have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The reality is that Nagoya Grampus have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 games, giving up 7 goals during that time.

Avispa Fukuoka

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Avispa Fukuoka will go into this encounter following a 1-0 J1 League win with the downing of Kashima Antlers in their previous fixture.

In that game, Avispa Fukuoka had 38% possession and 7 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. The scorer for Avispa Fukuoka was Shahab Zahedi (52'). Kashima Antlers had 7 shots on goal with 1 on target.

In the course of their 6 latest matches, Shigetoshi Hasebe's Avispa Fukuoka have found the net a total of 5 times - giving them a goals scored per game average of 0.83.

🤜🤛 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head duels dating back to 25/05/2022, there is nothing to separate the two clubs with Nagoya Grampus winning 3 of those games, Avispa Fukuoka 3 and 0 being draws after 90 minutes of play.

An aggregate of 12 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 6 from N. Grampus and 6 created by Avispa. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.

📋 Team News: Nagoya Grampus

Nearly everyone is up for selection, with just a single fitness concern for the Nagoya Grampus boss Kenta Hasegawa to be concerned with thanks to an otherwise robust set of players. Masahito Ono (Hamstring injury) will miss out.

It looks as if Nagoya Grampus will probably use a 3-4-2-1 system for this game with Yohei Takeda, Kennedy Ebbs Mikuni, Chang-Rae Ha, Akinari Kawazura, Katsuhiro Nakayama, Takuya Uchida, Takuji Yonemoto, Keiya Shiihashi, Tsukasa Morishima, Ryuji Izumi and Kensuke Nagai.

ℹ️ Team News: Avispa Fukuoka

Out of a mainly healthy group, there is just the lone fitness issue for the Avispa Fukuoka boss Shigetoshi Hasebe to be concerned with. Ryoga Sato (Cruciate ligament injury) won’t be in action.

From our viewpoint, Avispa Fukuoka will likely make use of a 3-4-2-1 lineup, settling for Masaaki Murakami, Douglas Grolli, Masaya Tashiro, Daiki Miya, Masato Yuzawa, Yota Maejima, Daiki Matsuoka, Hiroyuki Mae, Kazuya Konno, Yuto Iwasaki and Shahab Zahedi.

✨ Prediction

We’re thinking that Avispa Fukuoka might need a bit of good fortune to register a score against this Nagoya Grampus lineup who we think might well be able to grind out a win.

We therefore fancy a very even match with a 1-0 victory for Nagoya Grampus at the conclusion of the game.

Should be a close one.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Renata Leite, 05:06 07/04/2024