📊 Form Guide

Consadole Sapporo

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Consadole Sapporo will be hoping for a better result after a 6-1 J1 League loss in their previous game against Vissel Kobe.

In that match, Consadole Sapporo had 62% possession and 5 attempts at goal with 0 on target. For their opponents, Vissel Kobe had 25 attempts on goal with 12 of them on target. Yuya Osako (8'), Taisei Miyashiro (24', 49'), Yoshinori Muto (43', 95'), Tetsushi Yamakawa (72') and Yōsuke Ideguchi (73' Own goal) scored for Vissel Kobe.

Consadole Sapporo have been quite ineffective in attack of late. Their sum of goals stands at just 2 against opposing sides over their previous six fixtures. In those meetings, Consadole Sapporo have also seen the tally of goals scored against them come to 15.

Their past results show that Consadole Sapporo:

• have not won against Nagoya Grampus in their last 3 league matches.
• are without a home win in the past 4 league games. That's never good.

Nagoya Grampus

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Nagoya Grampus go into this meeting following a 2-1 J1 League win as they beat Yokohama F. Marinos in their last match.

In that game, Nagoya Grampus managed 37% possession and 15 attempts on goal with 5 on target. For Nagoya Grampus, goals were scored by Tsukasa Morishima (77') and Ryosuke Yamanaka (90'). Yokohama F. Marinos got 19 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Katsuya Nagato (54') scored for Yokohama F. Marinos.

Looking at their form, and Nagoya Grampus have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing opposing sides hit 7 goals in total. At the back, Nagoya Grampus have seen their frailties exposed. Historical results aside, it remains to be seen if that pattern shall be maintained in this next game.

Heading into this contest, Nagoya Grampus haven't been beaten by Consadole Sapporo in games played away from home for the previous 4 matches in the league. A very decent away record against them.

👥 Head to head

An examination of their past head-to-head meetings going back to 06/03/2021 shows that Consadole Sapporo have won 1 of these games & Nagoya Grampus 3, with the tally of drawn games standing at 2.

An aggregate of 14 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 6 from Consa and 8 coming from N. Grampus. The average goals per game has been 2.33.

The previous league encounter featuring these sides was J1 League match day 28 on 23/09/2023 when the final score was Nagoya Grampus 1-1 Consadole Sapporo.

On that occasion, Nagoya Grampus had 39% possession and 5 shots at goal with 1 of them on target. The scorer was Kasper Junker (50').

On the other side, Consadole Sapporo had 12 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Yuki Kobayashi (66') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Koei Koya.

📰 Team News: Consadole Sapporo

Shun Takagi (Cruciate ligament injury), Tomoki Kondo (Calf injury) and Kazuki Fukai (Cruciate ligament surgery) are unavailable for Consadole Sapporo boss Mihailo Petrović.

📰 Team News: Nagoya Grampus

In an otherwise available group, there’s just the sole fitness worry for the Nagoya Grampus boss Kenta Hasegawa to contend with. Masahito Ono (Hamstring injury) won’t be playing here.

💡 Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Nagoya Grampus and Consadole Sapporo might both not be able to do quite enough to get on the scoresheet here.

A scoreless draw looks like a real possibility, but we’ll see what happens. With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a very competitive game with a 0-0 draw at the end of the 90.

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

Andre Moura, 10:26 03/04/2024