Nagoya Grampus vs FC Tokyo Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Nagoya Grampus

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Nagoya Grampus will be looking for a repeat result of a 0-3 J1 League success versus Kashiwa Reysol.

In that game, Nagoya Grampus had 44% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 8 on target. For Nagoya Grampus, the goals were scored by Kasper Junker (41') and Kensuke Nagai (52'). On the other side, Kashiwa Reysol got 15 shots at goal with 6 on target. Yugo Tatsuta (70' Own goal) was the scorer for Kashiwa Reysol.

A common characteristic of recent Nagoya Grampus games is seeing a zero in the scoreline.

Taking their previous 6 matches leading up to this one, in 6 of them a wager on both teams scoring would have lost.

Their prior results show that Nagoya Grampus:

• haven't been beaten in the league by FC Tokyo in their previous 5 games.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 2 home league matches.

FC Tokyo

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FC Tokyo will come into the meeting following a 3-1 J1 League win as they beat Yokohama FC in their previous match.

In that game, FC Tokyo had 45% possession and 16 shots at goal with 7 of them on target. For FC Tokyo, goals were scored by Diego Oliveira (5', 62'), Teruhito Nakagawa (27') and Yasuki Kimoto (45' Own goal). Yokohama FC got 12 shots on goal with 6 of them on target.

The stats don’t lie, and FC Tokyo have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, letting opponents get 8 goals in total. At the back, FC Tokyo have not been doing too well. Regardless, we will just have to wait and see if that pattern might be sustained in this next game or not.

Looking at their past form shows that FC Tokyo:

• have not emerged victorious against Nagoya Grampus when they have played them away from home in the previous 3 league matches.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 3 league games.

👥 Head to head

Looking at their prior head-to-head meetings going back to 15/08/2020 shows that Nagoya Grampus have won 2 of these & FC Tokyo 1, with the number of drawn matches being 3.

7 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 4 of them for N. Grampus and 3 being from FC Tokyo. The average goals per game has been 1.17.

The previous league game featuring the two was J1 League match day 33 on 29/10/2022 which finished with the scoreline of Nagoya Grampus 2-1 FC Tokyo.

In that match, Nagoya Grampus had 27% possession and 10 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. The scorers were Noriyoshi Sakai (10') and Kensuke Nagai (69').

FC Tokyo got 13 shots on goal with 5 on target. Yasuki Kimoto (49') was the scorer.

The referee was Koei Koya.

ℹ️ Team News: Nagoya Grampus

Almost everyone can be considered, as there’s just one fitness concern for the Nagoya Grampus manager Kenta Hasegawa to be concerned with thanks to an otherwise robust set of players. Ei Gyotoku (Collarbone fracture) misses out.

We think that Nagoya Grampus will probably make use of the 3-4-2-1 formation this time with Mitchell Langerak, Yuki Nogami, Shinnosuke Nakatani, Haruya Fujii, Ryoya Morishita, Ryuji Izumi, Sho Inagaki, Takuji Yonemoto, Mateus, Kensuke Nagai and Kasper Junker.

📰 Team News: FC Tokyo

FC Tokyo boss Albert Puig has a number of players out of action. Ryoma Watanabe (Kidney problems) and Shuto Abe (Biceps femoris muscle injury) are names that won’t be on the team sheet.

We reckon that FC Tokyo appear most likely to begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 lineup, giving starts to Jakub Slowik, Yuto Nagatomo, Masato Morishige, Henrique, Kashifu Bangunagande, Yasuki Kimoto, Keigo Higashi, Teruhito Nakagawa, Kei Koizumi, Koki Tsukagawa and Diego Oliveira.

💡 Prediction

Our assessment here is that FC Tokyo might well have a job on their hands to breach the defence of this Nagoya Grampus outfit who we think should just have the edge.

We’re therefore expecting a very competitive encounter with a 1-0 advantage for Nagoya Grampus when all is said and done.

Little in this one.

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Victor Martins, 02:34 14/03/2023