Gamba Osaka vs Kyoto Sanga Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Gamba Osaka

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Gamba Osaka will be hoping to bounce back here following a 0-2 J1 League defeat in their last game at the hands of Yokohama F. Marinos.

In that match, Gamba Osaka managed 42% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Yokohama F. Marinos got 10 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Takuma Nishimura (37') and Katsuya Nagato (79') scored for Yokohama F. Marinos.

It’s not been often in recent games that Gamba Osaka have kept a clean sheet. In fact, Gamba Osaka have been scored against in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, shipping 13 goals on the way. That kind of pattern won’t necessarily be sustained into this next game, of course.

Kyoto Sanga

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Since tasting defeat last time out to Consadole Sapporo in J1 League competition, Kyoto Sanga and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that match, Kyoto Sanga had 47% possession and 9 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. The scorer for Kyoto Sanga was Patric (41'). On the other side, Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo had 11 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Takuro Kaneko (7') and Yuya Asano (72') scored for Consadole Sapporo.

The stats don’t lie, and Kyoto Sanga have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, seeing their opponents hit 12 goals overall. At the back, Kyoto Sanga have clearly had some problems.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking on their prior head to head clashes going back to 03/03/2013 shows that Gamba Osaka have won 2 of them & Kyoto Sanga 1, with the number of drawn games standing at 3.

A sum of 19 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 11 for Gamba Osaka and 8 for Kyoto. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.17.

The last league meeting featuring these sides was J1 League match day 8 on 15/04/2023 when the final score was Kyoto Sanga 2-1 Gamba Osaka.

That day, Kyoto Sanga managed 36% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 5 on target. The scorers were Yuta Toyokawa (22') and Patric (82').

At the other end, Gamba Osaka had 11 shots on goal with 3 on target. Hideki Ishige (37') scored.

The match was refereed by Hayato Shimizu.

📋 Team News: Gamba Osaka

The Gamba Osaka boss Daniel Poyatos doesn’t have any fitness concerns at all ahead of this clash owing to a fully healthy group available to choose from.

🗞️ Team News: Kyoto Sanga

Owing to an otherwise available group, there’s just the sole fitness issue for the Kyoto Sanga gaffer Kwi-jae Cho to be concerned about. Shohei Takeda (Meniscal Injury) won’t be in action.

✨ Prediction

We feel that in this game, Kyoto Sanga must be fancied to find the back of the net against this Gamba Osaka team, however that probably shouldn’t prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

We’re predicting a very close game with a 2-1 winning margin for Gamba Osaka at full-time. Looking forward to this.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Renata Leite, 00:04 20/05/2023