Gamba Osaka vs Sanfrecce Hiroshima Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Gamba Osaka

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Gamba Osaka will be looking for a repeat result of the 1-3 J. League Cup triumph over Kyoto Sanga.

For Gamba Osaka, the scorers were Yuya Fukuda (30'), Dawhan (42') and Hideki Ishige (79'). Ryogo Yamasaki (34') scored for Kyoto Sanga.

Daniel Poyatos's Gamba Osaka have scored a sum total of 8 times in their prior 6 outings. The corresponding tally of goals that have been scored against them in those fixtures amounts to 8.

Going into this one, Gamba Osaka are undefeated in their last 4 league matches at home.

Sanfrecce Hiroshima

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Sanfrecce Hiroshima will go into the match following on from a 3-1 J. League Cup win vs Yokohama FC in their previous fixture.

For Sanfrecce Hiroshima, goals were scored by Makoto Mitsuta (75') and Sho Sasaki (80'). Caprini (59') and Hayato Sugita (88' Own goal) scored for Yokohama FC.

Sanfrecce Hiroshima have been good when going forward in their most recent fixtures, having scored 8 times in their previous 6 matches. This doesn’t mask the fact that Sanfrecce Hiroshima have been somewhat leaky at the back, having also been scored against in 5 of those same outings. Nevertheless, we must now wait to see whether that pattern shall be maintained in this match.

A look at their previous results shows us that Sanfrecce Hiroshima:

• are unbeaten in their previous 2 away league matches.
• have not won away from home in their last 5 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

Checking on their most recent head-to-head meetings stretching back to 22/07/2020 shows us that Gamba Osaka have won 3 of these games and Sanfrecce Hiroshima 2, with the tally of drawn games standing at 1.

A combined total of 16 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 8 of them from Gamba Osaka and 8 being from Sanfrecce. The average goals per game has been 2.67.

The previous league game featuring these clubs was J1 League match day 26 on 20/08/2022 and the score finished Sanfrecce Hiroshima 5-2 Gamba Osaka.

In that game, Sanfrecce Hiroshima had 74% possession and 24 attempts at goal with 9 on target. The goals were scored by Nassim Ben Khalifa (11', 72', 76'), Makoto Mitsuta (82') and Taishi Matsumoto (88').

For their opponents, Gamba Osaka had 11 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Leandro Pereira (2') and Mitsuki Saito (36') scored.

The match was refereed by Jumpei Iida.

🗞️ Team News: Gamba Osaka

The Gamba Osaka manager Daniel Poyatos will be grateful not to have any fitness worries whatsoever coming into this match thanks to a completely injury-free group available to select from.

We think that Gamba Osaka will possibly opt for a 4-1-2-3 formation for the game and select Masaaki Higashiguchi, Riku Handa, Genta Miura, Yusei Egawa, Keisuke Kurokawa, Neta Lavi, Dawhan, Takashi Usami, Juan, Musashi Suzuki and Yuya Fukuda.

🗞️ Team News: Sanfrecce Hiroshima

Due to a mostly available group, there’s only the one fitness worry for the Sanfrecce Hiroshima boss Michael Skibbe to contend with. Shun Ayukawa (Surgery) won’t be playing here.

It’s our belief that Sanfrecce might play in a 3-4-2-1 lineup, choosing Keisuke Osako, Tsukasa Shiotani, Hayato Araki, Sho Sasaki, Makoto Mitsuta, Shunki Higashi, Takumu Kawamura, Gakuto Notsuda, Tsukasa Morishima, Nassim Ben Khalifa and Pieros Sotiriou.

🧠 Prediction

We feel that over the course of the game, Gamba Osaka might have a difficult job to find the net against this Sanfrecce Hiroshima team who we think will score & stay on top.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a good tussle with a 0-1 winning score for Sanfrecce Hiroshima at the end of the 90 minutes.

Hoping for a good game.

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Victor Martins, 03:07 08/03/2023