📊 Form Guide

Gamba Osaka

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Gamba Osaka will be wanting a better result here following the 1-0 J1 League losing effort in their last game against Kashiwa Reysol.

In that game, Gamba Osaka managed 37% possession and 7 shots at goal with 1 of them on target. For their opponents, Kashiwa Reysol had 13 shots at goal with 1 on target. Yoshio Koizumi (65') scored for Kashiwa Reysol.

It has not been often in recent games that Gamba Osaka have kept a clean sheet. In fact, Gamba Osaka have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 8 goals in the process. Such a pattern isn’t assured to be sustained into this game, however.

Coming into this clash, Gamba Osaka haven't been beaten in the league by Nagoya Grampus in their previous 2 matches.

Nagoya Grampus

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Since a losing effort in their last game against Shonan Bellmare in J1 League competition, Nagoya Grampus will be aiming to make amends here.

In that match, Nagoya Grampus managed 56% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. The scorer for Nagoya Grampus was Sho Inagaki (45'). For their opponents, Shonan Bellmare had 10 attempts at goal with 6 on target. Sho Fukuda (10') and Yuto Suzuki (45') scored for Shonan Bellmare.

Over the course of their previous half-dozen clashes, Nagoya Grampus have helped themselves to the sum of 10 goals. Nagoya Grampus have additionally got on the scoresheet in every single one of those games. During those fixtures, their defenders have had 6 goals go into their own net.

Heading into this contest, Nagoya Grampus haven’t won away from home in the past 5 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A look at their past head-to-head clashes dating back to 02/04/2022 shows that Gamba Osaka have won 4 of these games & Nagoya Grampus 2, with the tally of drawn games being 0.

14 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 9 from Gamba Osaka and 5 netted by N. Grampus. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.33.

The last league clash between these sides was J1 League match day 35 on 23/10/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Gamba Osaka 3-2 Nagoya Grampus.

On that day, Gamba Osaka had 61% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. The goalscorers were Isa Sakamoto (21', 28') and Yuya Fukuda (77').

On the other side, Nagoya Grampus got 20 attempts at goal with 9 on target. Chang-rae Ha (5') and Haruki Yoshida (56') scored.

The referee was Takuto Okabe.

📋 Team News: Gamba Osaka

Genta Miura (Cruciate ligament injury) and Welton (Torn ankle ligaments) won’t be playing for Gamba Osaka boss Daniel Poyatos.

📰 Team News: Nagoya Grampus

Nagoya Grampus boss Kenta Hasegawa has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Kasper Junker (Calf strain), Daniel Schmidt (Meniscus injury), Yuya Yamagishi (Knee medial ligament tear), Shuhei Tokumoto (Adductor injury) and Masahito Ono (Cruciate ligament injury) are those who can’t be considered.

🧠 Prediction

We’re envisaging that Nagoya Grampus will do well to be putting a goal past this Gamba Osaka side who we think should manage to get a goal of their own in a winning performance.

We’re therefore predicting a very even contest with a 1-0 victory for Gamba Osaka at the end of this one.

Expecting it to be tight.

Peter Guest, 04:06 12/04/2025