📏 Form Guide

Nagoya Grampus

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Nagoya Grampus are hoping to win again after their last result, the 0-2 J. League Cup success versus Ōmiya Ardija.

The only scorer from Nagoya Grampus was Patric (45', 53').

Their most recent results highlight the fact that huge efforts have been put in by the Nagoya Grampus backline. Nagoya Grampus have kept it tight, resulting in the tally of goals that have flown into the back of their net during their previous 6 outings standing at 2.

Ahead of this clash, Nagoya Grampus have not been beaten in their last 2 home league matches.

Cerezo Osaka

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Cerezo Osaka will go into this match following a 0-1 J. League Cup win versus Iwate Grulla Morioka in their last outing.

The only name on the scoresheet from Cerezo Osaka was Vitor Bueno (67').

For 6 of the previous six clashes involving Cerezo Osaka, a notably low volume of goals have gone in between them and opposing sides. The overall average number of goals per game in that spell is just 1.5, with the average goals for Sakura standing at 1.33. Regardless, we must now wait to see if the trend might be maintained in this next match.

Analysis of their past results shows that Cerezo Osaka:

• haven't beaten Nagoya Grampus in games played away from home for the previous 6 league games. Not good.
• have not been beaten in their last 4 league matches away from home.

↔️ Head to head

A review of their prior head-to-head meetings going back to 08/05/2021 tells us that Nagoya Grampus have won 4 of these & Cerezo Osaka 2, with the number of drawn results being 0.

A total of 14 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 8 of them for N. Grampus and 6 for Sakura. That is an average goals per game value of 2.33.

The last league fixture between these sides was J1 League match day 25 on 26/08/2023 when it ended Cerezo Osaka 3-1 Nagoya Grampus.

In that game, Cerezo Osaka had 50% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 5 on target. The scorers were Satoki Uejo (9', 71') and Sota Kitano (88').

Nagoya Grampus got 8 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. Ryoya Morishita (12') scored.

The match was refereed by Koichiro Fukushima.

ℹ️ Team News: Nagoya Grampus

Kasper Junker (Meniscus injury) and Masahito Ono (Hamstring injury) will not be able to play for Nagoya Grampus gaffer Kenta Hasegawa. Ken Masui will not be able to play in this game through being suspended.

It’s our opinion that Nagoya Grampus will possibly opt for a 3-4-2-1 formation and select Mitchell Langerak, Kennedy Ebbs Mikuni, Chang-Rae Ha, Haruki Yoshida, Takuya Uchida, Ryosuke Yamanaka, Sho Inagaki, Takuji Yonemoto, Tsukasa Morishima, Ryuji Izumi and Kensuke Nagai.

ℹ️ Team News: Cerezo Osaka

Cerezo Osaka manager Akio Kogiku has to choose a team with limited availability. Ryosuke Shindo (Hamstring injury) and Shinnosuke Kinoshita (Hamstring muscle injury) are names that won’t be on the team sheet. Justin Hubner is ineligible for this match because of suspension.

There’s a good chance that Sakura seem most likely to make use of a 4-1-2-3 lineup with a starting lineup of Jin-Hyeon Kim, Seiya Maikuma, Koji Toriumi, Kakeru Funaki, Kyohei Noborizato, Shunta Tanaka, Masaya Shibayama, Hiroaki Okuno, Lucas Fernandes, Leo and Capixaba.

💡 Prediction

In our opinion, Cerezo Osaka and Nagoya Grampus could both find goals hard to come by here.

Let’s see how it plays out, but a draw with few scoring chances is looking likely to us. That’s why our selection here is for a hard-fought 0-0 scoreline when all is said and done.

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

Renata Leite, 05:07 21/04/2024