📏 Form Guide

Júbilo Iwata

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Júbilo Iwata will be looking for another win after a 0-3 J1 League victory vs Kyoto Sanga.

In that game, Júbilo Iwata managed 46% possession and 15 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. For Júbilo Iwata, the goalscorers were Shunsuke Nishikubo (51') and Matheus Peixoto (65', 71'). At the other end, Kyoto Sanga had 19 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target.

Over their prior six fixtures, Akinobu Yokouchi's Júbilo Iwata have scored a total of 11 times which gives them an average number of goals scored per match equal to 1.83.

Nagoya Grampus

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In their previous fixture, Nagoya Grampus drew 0-0 in the J1 League match with Avispa Fukuoka.

In that game, Nagoya Grampus had 54% possession and 5 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target. Avispa Fukuoka got 15 attempts on goal with 2 on target.

A sequence of hard-working showings from the Nagoya Grampus defence has seen their ‘goals against’ tally standing at 4 from their last 6 fixtures combined. In that period of time, their own forwards have managed to score 6. Let’s find out whether or not that trend will end up being sustained into this next match.

Looking at their past form shows that Nagoya Grampus:

• are winless against Júbilo Iwata when having played them away from home in the previous 2 league games.
• are unbeaten in their last 2 league matches away from home.

↔️ Head to head

A look at their prior head-to-head meetings dating back to 03/03/2018 shows that Júbilo Iwata have won 2 of these & Nagoya Grampus 4, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 0.

A combined sum of 16 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 5 of them from Júbilo Iwata and 11 being from N. Grampus. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.67.

The last league contest featuring these clubs was J1 League match day 26 on 19/08/2022 when the final score was Nagoya Grampus 1-0 Júbilo Iwata.

In that match, Nagoya Grampus had 42% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Mateus (19').

On the other side, Júbilo Iwata got 8 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Koichiro Fukushima.

📰 Team News: Júbilo Iwata

Almost everyone can be considered, as there’s just one fitness concern for the Júbilo Iwata manager Akinobu Yokouchi to contend with from of an almost fully healthy set of players. Weverton (Hamstring injury) is sidelined.

We are thinking that Júbilo Iwata will probably use the 4-4-2 system for the game with Eiji Kawashima, Shunsuke Nishikubo, Makito Ito, Ricardo Graca, Hiroto Uemura, Masaya Matsumoto, Kensuke Fujiwara, Rikiya Uehara, Rei Hirakawa, Matheus Peixoto and Ryo Germain.

📰 Team News: Nagoya Grampus

Nagoya Grampus manager Kenta Hasegawa has to choose from a squad that has some fitness concerns. Kasper Junker (Meniscus injury) and Masahito Ono (Hamstring injury) are those who can’t be considered.

From our viewpoint, Nagoya Grampus will likely make use of a 3-4-2-1 system, choosing Yohei Takeda, Kennedy Ebbs Mikuni, Chang-Rae Ha, Akinari Kawazura, Ryuji Izumi, Ryosuke Yamanaka, Sho Inagaki, Takuji Yonemoto, Tsukasa Morishima, Ken Masui and Kensuke Nagai.

🧠 Prediction

Here, we’re thinking that Júbilo Iwata might have a difficult job to get anything against this Nagoya Grampus side who will likely end up scoring and possibly keep a clean sheet as well.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a hard-fought 0-1 winning score for Nagoya Grampus at the conclusion of the game.

Expecting it to be tight.

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

Lucas Pereira, 04:09 13/04/2024