📏 Form Guide

Shimizu S-Pulse

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Shimizu S-Pulse will be hoping to bounce back here after the 4-2 J1 League defeat last time out to Cerezo Osaka.

In that match, Shimizu S-Pulse had 51% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 4 on target. For Shimizu S-Pulse, the scorers were Reon Yamahara (4') and Riku Gunji (89'). For their opponents, Cerezo Osaka got 20 attempts at goal with 9 on target. Niko Takahashi (12'), Motohiko Nakajima (18'), Ratão (54') and Fernandes (70') scored for Cerezo Osaka.

Matches featuring Shimizu S-Pulse have tended to be entertaining encounters lately with plenty of scoring anticipated. Over their past 6 games, a grand total of 20 goals have been recorded for both teams combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 7 of those belonging to Shimizu S-Pulse. In any event, we’ll just have to find out whether that trend will continue on in this next game.

Going into this one, Shimizu S-Pulse are undefeated in their previous 2 league matches at home.

Gamba Osaka

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After a loss in their previous game against Kashima Antlers in J1 League competition, Gamba Osaka and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that match, Gamba Osaka had 58% possession and 22 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target. On the other side, Kashima Antlers got 6 shots on goal with 1 of them on target. Ceará (9') was the scorer for Kashima Antlers.

Looking at their form, and Gamba Osaka have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 9 goals in all. In defence, Gamba Osaka have some weaknesses to address.

Analysis of their past results shows that Gamba Osaka:

• remain unbeaten by Shimizu S-Pulse in games played away from home for the previous 5 matches in the league. A very good run of results for them.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 2 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head duels going back to 19/12/2020, there has been little to separate the clubs with Shimizu S-Pulse winning 2 of those games, Gamba Osaka 2 and 2 being draws in normal time.

An aggregate of 8 goals were scored between them in this period, with 5 from Shimizu and 3 netted by Gamba Osaka. That’s an average goals per game figure of 1.33.

The previous league fixture featuring these clubs was J1 League match day 5 on 08/03/2025 when it ended Gamba Osaka 1-0 Shimizu S-Pulse.

On that day, Gamba Osaka had 46% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. The scorer was Ryoya Yamashita (36').

On the other side, Shimizu S-Pulse had 10 shots at goal with 2 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Ryo Tanimoto.

📋 Team News: Shimizu S-Pulse

We are thinking that Shimizu S-Pulse will possibly use a 3-4-2-1 formation for this one featuring Yuya Oki, Jelani Sumiyoshi, Yuji Takahashi, Sodai Hasukawa, Reon Yamahara, Zento Uno, Matheus Bueno, Capixaba, Hikaru Nakahara, Takashi Inui and Koya Kitagawa.

📋 Team News: Gamba Osaka

We are inclined to think that Gamba Osaka seem most likely to play in a 4-2-3-1 lineup, choosing Jun Ichimori, Riku Handa, Shinnosuke Nakatani, Shota Fukuoka, Keisuke Kurokawa, Neta Lavi, Shuto Abe, Ryoya Yamashita, Makoto Mitsuta, Welton and Takashi Usami.

✨ Prediction

Looking at these two, we feel that Gamba Osaka and Shimizu S-Pulse could both well score here although it’s hard to see a clear-cut winner.

Shouldn’t be much in it, and a draw looks quite a realistic result. That is why we are leaning toward a tight encounter, finishing with a 1-1 scoreline at full-time.

Peter Guest, 09:02 15/06/2025