📊 Form Guide

Ōmiya Ardija

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Ōmiya Ardija will be hoping for a repeat of their last result, following the 1-2 J. League Cup triumph versus FC Gifu.

It’s not been often in recent times that Ōmiya Ardija have shown defensive steel. The facts show that Ōmiya Ardija have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 6 of their previous 6 games, giving up 12 goals along the way.

Nagoya Grampus

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Nagoya Grampus will go into this game following a 0-1 J1 League win with the defeat of Júbilo Iwata in their most recent outing.

In that game, Nagoya Grampus had 36% possession and 7 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Nagoya Grampus was Ken Masui (8'). On the other side, Jubilo Iwata got 12 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target.

A succession of resolute displays from the Nagoya Grampus defensive unit has resulted in the number of goals they’ve conceded amounting to 3 from their last 6 fixtures in total. Over that same time, the number of goals that they have scored themselves is 7. Let’s see if that trend will end up being continued on into this next match.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking out their prior head to head meetings dating back to 10/07/2013, there is nothing to separate the two clubs with Ōmiya Ardija winning 3 of those games, Nagoya Grampus 3 and 0 being drawn in normal time.

A sum of 16 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 8 from Omiya and 8 belonging to N. Grampus. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.67.

The last league fixture featuring the two was J1 League match day 1 on 02/07/2016 when it ended Ōmiya Ardija 1-0 Nagoya Grampus.

The match was refereed by Jumpei Iida.

ℹ️ Team News: Ōmiya Ardija

The Ōmiya Ardija boss will be thankful to have no fitness concerns whatsoever ahead of this match with a completely healthy squad available for selection.

🗞️ Team News: Nagoya Grampus

Nagoya Grampus manager Kenta Hasegawa has some current player fitness concerns. Kasper Junker (Meniscus injury) and Masahito Ono (Hamstring injury) can’t be considered.

⚡ Prediction

We’re of the opinion that Ōmiya Ardija may find it difficult to find the net against this Nagoya Grampus side who we think might emerge victorious.

We’re therefore predicting a good tussle with a 0-1 winning score for Nagoya Grampus at the conclusion of the game.

Let’s see how it plays out.

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Victor Martins, 09:00 17/04/2024