📏 Form Guide

Sanfrecce Hiroshima

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Sanfrecce Hiroshima, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 0-4 J1 100 Year Vision League victory over Kyoto Sanga.

In that game, Sanfrecce Hiroshima managed 44% possession and 16 shots on goal with 8 on target. For Sanfrecce Hiroshima, the goalscorers were Sōta Nakamura (29'), Akito Suzuki (49'), Mutsuki Kato (51') and Taishi Matsumoto (75'). For their opponents, Kyoto Sanga had 3 shots on goal with 2 of them on target.

Over their prior six fixtures, Bartosch Gaul's Sanfrecce Hiroshima have netted 10 times resulting in an average number of goals per match equal to 1.67.

Nagoya Grampus

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Following on from suffering a loss in their previous game against Cerezo Osaka in J1 100 Year Vision League action, Nagoya Grampus will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that game, Nagoya Grampus had 58% possession and 12 attempts on goal with 4 on target. The scorer for Nagoya Grampus was Yudai Kimura (42'). At the other end, Cerezo Osaka had 15 attempts at goal with 9 on target. Shunta Tanaka (12'), Yumeki Yokoyama (22', 39'), Andrade (54') and Solomon Sakuragawa (87', 89') scored for Cerezo Osaka.

In their previous six outings, Nagoya Grampus have amassed a total of 11 goals. Nagoya Grampus have additionally got on the scoresheet in every single one of those games. During those fixtures, they’ve had 9 goals scored by their opponents. That sort of pattern isn’t assured to be carried forward into this game, however.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at their prior head to head clashes stretching back to 17/08/2024 shows that Sanfrecce Hiroshima have won 2 of these games and Nagoya Grampus 4, with the number of drawn games standing at 0.

A combined sum of 16 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 7 of them for Sanfrecce and 9 being from N. Grampus. That’s an average goals per game of 2.67.

The last league game between these sides was J1 100 Year Vision League match day 7 on 18/03/2026 when it ended Nagoya Grampus 2-1 Sanfrecce Hiroshima.

In that game, Nagoya Grampus managed 44% possession and 13 shots on goal with 7 on target. The goals were scored by Yuya Yamagishi (4') and Yudai Kimura (69').

Sanfrecce Hiroshima got 17 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Akito Suzuki (50') scored.

📋 Team News: Sanfrecce Hiroshima

We think that Sanfrecce may well use the 3-4-2-1 formation for this one, beginning the first half with Issei Ouchi, Tsukasa Shiotani, Taichi Yamasaki, Sho Sasaki, Shuto Nakano, Hayao Kawabe, Naoto Arai, Shunki Higashi, Mutsuki Kato, Sota Nakamura and Akito Suzuki.

📰 Team News: Nagoya Grampus

Nagoya Grampus boss Mihailo Petrović has to choose from a squad that has some fitness concerns. Tomoya Koyamatsu (Meniscus damage) and Marcus Vinicius (Tibia and fibula fracture) miss out here.

We believe Nagoya Grampus seem likely to begin the game with a 3-4-2-1 lineup with a starting lineup of Daniel Schmidt, Yuki Nogami, Haruya Fujii, Shuhei Tokumoto, Yuya Asano, Takuya Uchida, Tomoki Takamine, Katsuhiro Nakayama, Ryuji Izumi, Yudai Kimura and Yuya Yamagishi.

💭 Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Nagoya Grampus will likely be able to break down this Sanfrecce Hiroshima lineup, however it might not be as many as the goals that they could concede.

We’re predicting a narrow 2-1 win for Sanfrecce Hiroshima at the end of the 90 minutes. We’ll have to see what happens.

Peter Guest, 04:04 23/05/2026